We have to understand many key specifications before we can answer the questions for how much does an plastic injection molding machine cost? As these factors determine how much it will cost you to get the functions you expected.
Below we listed the most important specifications of plastic injection moulding machines:
Clamping Tonnage of injection molding machines
This parameter is our most heard when we are talking about an plastic injection molding maker. We normally said it`s or we want to have a 100 ton molding machine, 200 ton moulding machine…. The parameter 100 ton and 200 ton is not the weight of the molding machine. It reference to the size how many tonnes of force can most applied to clamp and plasitc injection molds together during production. The bigger tonnage will sure cause the size and the weight of machine getting bigger. And the injection molding plastic products you can produced is also getting bigger and more heavy. The bigger plastic injection molding machine cost more.
Driving Technology of an plastic injection moulding machine
Right now there are many driving technologies are used on an injection molding machine. Total they are purely Hydraulic system, All electric System and Hybrid Driving injection molding machines is available in the market. The Hydraulic system is devided to Variable Pumps drive, and Servo Motors drive molding machines. Normally the Variable Pumps injection molding machine is cheaper than Servo motor injection molding machine. Hybrid driving injection molding machines cost the middle between the servo motor injection moulding machine and all electric molding machine. The most expensive is all eletric injection molding machine.
Brand Manufacturers of plastic injection moulding machines
There are hundreds of plastic injection molding machines manufacturers worldwide. To be frankly speaking, brands in Euro, Japanese like Arburg, Engel, Nissei, Husky etc. normally have new features designs, barrel screws and whole machine systems. The machines can give repeatability up to 0.001g for theie top grade machines. Of cause they cost you times comparing to Chinese injection molding machines. Chinese brands injection molding machines is good for regular plastic products manufacturing. The price is worth and reasonable with their quality for typical non-critical general applications. Plastic molding machines are extremely cost effective. Haitian became the biggest manufacturer with quantity had prove the quality is acceptable worldwide. Sure you can find even mor cost effective brand like Guanxin from China. The machine is really good for the price and their quality is good and you have 3 years guarantees. What more you have expect for?
Part Material of injection molding application
As we all known that Husky is doing most great in the PET preform/bottle preforms molding industry. There are many dedicated injection molding machines availble for different applications. The part material may caused different optimized fuctions and it will surely affect on the cost of the injection molding machine. Like PET preforms molding, it will need a bigger screw diameter and bigger screw L/D ratio, the thread is special optimized to have less sheat heat and melting faster. As the shot weight is big but need fast production cycle time. So you can see there is dedicated PET preforms injection molding machines in the market.
There are many different dedicated molding machines you can found: Like PVC injection molding machine, Paint buckets injection molding machine, Thin-wall products injection molding machine, Nylon injection molding machines, etc. These optimized plastic injection modling machine price have difference also. This kind of machine is worked more better for the application, rather than the normal injection machines. But their price is not so big different.
Someone may ask how much does an plastic injection molding machine cost finally? Our answer is that it`s complex for the exactly amount for the injection molding machines price without further more details. It is likely to ask how much it cost for a car. The cost should be a wide range on your deminds on above listed specifications of injection molding machines. Any way, we can offer you some guidelines for the injection molding machines price for reference.
100-200 ton injection molding machines price for reference:
$18,000-$30,000 in the lower end – mostly Chinese machines(Taiwan), India
$28,000-$60,000 in the mid range segment – mostly Chinese machines(Taiwan), Japan
$75,000-$250,000 in the higher end – Euro, Japan, China`s top brands
