Yige Molds: Professional Manufacturing Solutions for Food Basket Molds

Core Technical Features of Food Basket Molds

1. Modular Insert Design

Yige Molds utilizes a modular insert design. By replacing local movable inserts, the same mold set can produce baskets with different patterns, hole types (such as round holes, square holes, micro-holes), or sizes. This significantly improves mold utilization and production flexibility while reducing development costs. This design enables customers to respond quickly to market demand changes and achieve small-batch, multi-variety production.

2. Efficient Demolding and Ejection System

To address the deep cavities and undercuts (e.g., inside handles) common in food baskets, Yige Molds employs complex mechanisms like angular lifters and hydraulic core pulls to ensure damage-free part ejection. The ejection system, analyzed through simulation, uses multi-point balanced ejection to prevent ejection marks or deformation on the product, ensuring a flat basket bottom. This design greatly enhances production efficiency and product yield.

3. Optimized Cooling and Venting System

The cooling channels in Yige Molds are designed for conformal cooling based on the 3D model of the basket. This ensures uniform cooling of parts with consistent wall thickness, shortens the molding cycle (improving efficiency by 15-30%), and reduces warpage caused by uneven shrinkage. Precise venting slots are placed in rib areas and deep cavities to avoid defects like burn marks or short shots caused by trapped air, guaranteeing surface quality.

4. Surface Treatment Technology

The mold cavity surface can undergo texturing (etching) to create finishes like matte, leather, or stone grain. This enhances aesthetics while providing scratch resistance and improved grip during use. Key moving components undergo treatments like nitriding or chrome plating to increase hardness, wear resistance, and corrosion resistance, thereby extending mold life.

Materials and Process Standards

1. Mold Steel

Core components of Yige Molds typically use high-polish, high-corrosion-resistant pre-hardened steels, such as S136H, NAK80, P20, and 718H. This ensures cavity surface finish during long production runs and resists corrosion from plastic additives. These materials offer high hardness, wear resistance, and corrosion resistance, meeting various customer requirements for mold lifespan.

2. Product Plastic Materials

Product materials must comply with food contact standards like FDA and EU 10/2011, using food-grade materials such as PP (Polypropylene), PE (Polyethylene), and PET. These materials are safe, non-toxic, offer good chemical resistance, are easy to clean, and ensure product safety and reliability.

3. Process Control

The injection molding process requires precise control of material temperature, mold temperature, injection pressure, and speed. This ensures adequate material flow to fill thin walls and ribs while maintaining stable dimensional accuracy and mechanical properties. Yige Molds has mastered mold temperature control technology, capable of developing optimal overall mold temperature control solutions covering every stage from mold design and manufacturing to injection molding, based on part quality requirements and product function.

Product Structure Design Highlights

1. Multi-functional Structural Design

Food baskets produced by Yige Molds feature various functional designs, such as drainage holes, sealing lid structures, handle designs, and stacking functionality. Through scientific structural design, both product practicality and a perfect blend of aesthetics and function are achieved.

2. Lightweight Design

Through bottom rib design and scientifically arranged wall thickness control, product lightweighting is achieved while ensuring load-bearing strength (typically exceeding 20 kg). This design makes products more portable and reduces material costs.

3. Rapid Prototyping Technology

Yige Molds employs rapid prototyping technology, resulting in short mold manufacturing cycles, simple processes, ease of implementation, and low process costs. By optimizing mold structure design, reducing the number of mold components, and improving mold standardization, the mold manufacturing cycle is shortened, and mold costs are reduced.

Quality Control System

1. Strict Quality Management

Yige Molds has established a stringent quality monitoring system, strictly controlling every process during production. Various testing methods, including tensile testing, vibration testing, shot weight inspection, and color difference detection, are used to ensure products meet high-quality standards. During mold manufacturing, coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are used to measure the dimensions of mold cavities and cores, ensuring dimensional accuracy meets design requirements.

2. Precision Machining Processes

Mold processing utilizes high-precision machine tools and cutting tools to ensure machining accuracy and surface quality. Dimensional tolerances and geometric tolerances are strictly controlled during processing, with surface roughness Ra controlled below 0.1 μm. For complex-shaped cavities and cores, Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is used for finishing, with process parameters carefully controlled to avoid dimensional deviations or uneven surface quality due to improper machining.

3. Heat Treatment Process

The quenching of mold steel requires precise control of heating temperature and cooling rate to prevent cracks or deformation caused by improper quenching. Quenched molds undergo tempering to relieve internal stresses, improving mold hardness and toughness. Tempering temperature and time are adjusted according to the specific mold material to ensure stable mold performance.

Market Competitive Advantages

Yige Molds holds a favorable position in the market thanks to the following advantages:

• Strong Technical Capabilities: Possesses an experienced core technical team with expertise in the core technologies of precision plastic mold R&D, design, manufacturing, repair, and injection molding.

• Large Production Capacity: Equipped with over 100 advanced computer-automated injection molding machines and production lines, with a daily output potential exceeding 5 million pieces.

• Quality Assurance: Certified with the ISO9001 Quality Management System, products are exported to dozens of countries and regions worldwide, receiving recognition from internationally renowned companies.

• Comprehensive Service: Provides one-stop service from product design and mold manufacturing to injection molding production, supports customized development, and meets the personalized needs of different customers.

Service Models and Customer Value

1. One-Stop Service

Yige Molds provides a one-stop service from product design and mold manufacturing to injection molding production. Clients only need to provide product requirements or samples, and the company can complete the entire process from design to production. This service model significantly shortens the client's development cycle and reduces overall costs.

2. Customized Development

The company supports customized development, conducting product design and mold manufacturing according to specific client requirements. Whether for product appearance, dimensions, colors, or functional requirements, personalized customization is available. The company has a strong design team capable of responding quickly to client needs and providing professional design solutions.

3. Rapid Response Mechanism

Yige Molds has established a rapid response mechanism. For urgent orders or special requirements, resources can be quickly allocated, and production prioritized. The company is equipped with a professional after-sales service team, providing timely technical support and after-sales service to ensure clients have no concerns during usage.

Summary

As a professional manufacturer of food basket molds, Yige Molds provides clients with high-quality mold products and professional services, relying on strong technical capabilities, advanced production equipment, strict quality control, and a comprehensive service system. Through continuous technological innovation and management optimization, the company constantly enhances its core competitiveness, maintaining a leading position in the competitive market. In the future, Yige Molds will continue to uphold the philosophy of "Innovation, Professionalism, Service," creating greater value for clients and promoting the continuous development of the plastic mold industry.