What Plastic Welding Process Should You Use?
It’s impossible to say that one method or the other is absolutely the correct process due to the feasibility of welding your part with multiple processes. Each process does have its advantanges and disadvantages and when considered in combination with material selection, part size, part geometry, part requirements and a host of other considerations, you will likely be on the path to selecting a process more suitable for your application. We hope the chart below will be useful in your selection process.
| ULTRASONIC WELDING | VIBRATION WELDING | SPIN WELDING | HOT PLATE WELDING | LASER WELDING | |||||
| Amorphous Plastics | √ | √ | √ | √ | ? | ||||
| Semi-Crystalline Plastics | ? | √ | √ | ? | ? | ||||
| Parts with Complex Geometry | ? | √ | ? | √ | ? | ||||
| Parts Requiring Welds on Internal Features | √ | ? | ? | √ | √ | ||||
| Small Parts | √ | ? | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Large Parts | ? | √ | ? | √ | ? | ||||
| Round Parts | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Non-Round Parts | √ | √ | X | √ | √ | ||||
| Long Unsupported Walls | √ | X | X | √ | √ | ||||
| Viable Process | √ | ||||||||
| Maybe | ? | ||||||||
| Don’t | X | ||||||||
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Welcome to our site with information about welding plastic. We will review many different types of processes for welding plastics and go in depth into our review of the many different methods for assembling plastics. We’re just getting started, but we hope you enjoy!
