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Processes	Shaping plastics
	There are a number of different plastic shaping processes. With plastic moulding techniques the plastic material is melted and given its shape when cooled in a die. The majority of plastic parts are made with plastic injection moulding techniques. It is a special type of moulding, where the moulded plastic is pressed automatically into a steel die. Most composite materials consists partly of plastic material and processes used for shaping those are therefore also described here.
`Danish Name`	Plast-forarbejdningsprocesser
`Plastic moulding`	Blow moulding Extrusion Injection blow moulding Rotation moulding
`Plastic injection moulding`	Gas assisted injection moulding Injection moulding Insert moulding Multicolour injection moulding Outsert moulding Push-pull injection moulding Reaction injection moulding - RIM Sandwich injection moulding
`Plastic shaping`	Thermoforming (Vacuum forming)
`Composite Materials Processes`	Autoclave moulding Matrix injection - RTM Filament winding Hand lay-up Hot pressing, composites Pultrusion
`Usefull links`	Injection Moulding Cost Estimator
`References`	The Danish Plastics Federation
`Photo`	Thomas Nissen (Computer graphics)
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