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Learn how polymers can reduce component weight, consolidate parts and meet tough specifications. Ticona Engineering Polymers' white paper, Primer - Switching from Metals to Plastics provides designers with guidelines on how to handle a project to conversion a component from metals to plastics.Click here for your free copy now!

Benefits of metal replacement

• How to select the design team
• Key considerations of the conceptual design process
• Plastic issues
• Part and mold tool design
• Overall tooling, fabrication, initial part design and prototyping

The use of plastics in place of metals is helping many manufacturers maintain profit margins as costs and competition increase. These manufacturers are finding that the switch also improves products, gets them to market faster, reduces total finished assembly costs, and often combines production of many parts into one economical step.