May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
9h 8m
English
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But the manufacturer Driade had asked Arad to work with them
on a project, and they wanted to work in rotational molding. Arad
was resistant for a variety of reasons. “It takes about thirty min-
utes between pieces,” he notes, “where with injection molding,
every few seconds you get a new piece. Rotational molding is a
bit like baking a cake. You have to heat it up, open it, and take it
out. It’s favored by young designers because the tooling cost is a
lot lower; its a fraction of the cost of injection molding, so if ...