Barry Plastics is a injection molding and thermoforming plastics company in Lawrence Kansas. They are one of three or five factories operated by Barry in the United States. They injection and thermoform plastic cups and tubs for products you use every day.
Their forming technologies are GIANT thermoformers and long assembly-line-esque injection moulding machines.
Their cutting technology is built into each machine, it cuts what it stamps or molds.
This was probably my second favorite trip. It was really cool to see the Betty Crocker containers being stamped and the McDonalds cups being formed. Although the process is pretty simple, its heat and plastic ran through molds. That's about it. The plastic comes raw in the form of beads and is heated up and squirted into a sheet, then that sheet is heated and sucked into a mold. Or it is injected straight into the mold and the sheet part is skipped. Pretty simple, however its very large scale, fast and loud! :)
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