Choosing the right materials for your design project is an integral part of the development process. This choice is significant if you plan on using polymers, as the type of polymer you choose will have a marked impact on all phases of product design. Selecting the right materials is necessary from a production standpoint. The early selection of a polymer will help you prove your designs in a virtualized CAD environment, saving you valuable resources.

When choosing a manufacturing service provider, note their ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of polymers and their most appropriate use cases. Our Seattle, WA based engineering team will carefully review your product specifications to determine the best thermoplastic and thermosetting polymer materials for manufacturing. Pacific Research Labs accomplishes this in three simple steps:

• We examine your requested design specifications and collaborate with you to make concisely targeted design refinements.

• Our experienced engineers use the resulting collaborative design to determine the best fit of polymer materials for use in a virtualized CAD.

• We produce a prototype and the final working product.

The polymers used by Pacific Research Labs can be broken down into two categories: thermosets and thermoplastics. Each type of polymer material will add reliability and performance to your final products when the correct polymer variant is selected. Each type of polymer employs slightly different machining processes and will react differently to the common chemicals and temperatures used in the manufacturing process.