Abstract
The market for non-automotive RIM is very diverse, including such applications as lawn and garden equipment, snowmobiles, and evaporative coolers. Among all molding processes, only injections molding allows as much design freedom as RIM. However, injection molding is usually not an economically viable alternative for the production of parts as large as most RIM moldings. RIM is also a process of large volume production. Output from a single clamp, operating on a three minute total cycle, will be over 40,000 parts/year, single shift.
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