Plastics Manufacturing Center
Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center, Rm. E128 · (570) 321-5533
Client Services
The PMC provides these consulting, testing, training, and product development services:
Materials Testing and Analysis
- Competitive product analysis
- Mechanical testing
- Melt flow and rheology
- Impact testing
- Failure analysis
- Quality testing
- Materials identification
- Materials deformulation
Technical Support Services
- Material recommendations and sourcing
- Custom compound development
- Polymer processes
- Manufacturing process recommendations
- Mold design
- MoldFlow computer software
- Literature searching
- Patent searching
Product Development
- Design services
- Product models
- Patenting and licensing support
- Prototyping
Process Development
- Injection molding
- Extrusion
- Blow molding
- Vacuum forming
- Rotational molding
Training / Courses (on-site or in-house)
- Plastics Fundamentals
- Plastics Processing and Manufacturing
- Injection Molding
- Extrusion
- Designing Parts for Injection Molding
- Statistical Process Control
- Mold Design
- Plastic Mold Simulation / Mold Filling
- Plastic Material Selection & Testing
- Additives for Plastics
- Blow Molding
- Extrusion “Hands-on” Seminar