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Kenson Plastics is a family-owned business that has been designing and manufacturing precision pressure-formed plastics since 1972.

Intricate Tight Tolerance Machining for Medical Devices

In this video we review a customer story that required intricate, tight tolerance machining for a...

Complex Machining: Thermoforming vs Injection Molding

In the thermoforming process machining is critically important. I guess the best way to think about...

Better Technology Practices that Reduce a Low Volume Product’s Overall Manufacturing Cost

Keeping manufacturing costs within an acceptable range for low-volume products that have intricate...

How to Develop & Manufacture Better Part-to-Part Repeatability

Part repeatability really comes down to three things at Kenson.

We take very seriously our front...

Machining Aerospace Parts That Fit, Form & Function Perfectly Within Your Assembly

What we make at Kenson is not necessarily an individual part, but often many parts that go into an...

Hard Tooling vs Soft Tooling for Manufacturing Durable High-Precision Parts

Design teams face many challenges when bringing a new product to market. While product features,...

Alternatives to Metal Enclosures for EMI Shielding Constraints

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) has the potential to disrupt all manner of electronic devices,...

Selecting the Right Materials to Design and Manufacture Your Complex Part

When you're designing and preparing to manufacture a complex part, it's important to choose the...

The Key to Up-Front Mold Design for Kiosk Enclosures

When working with self-service kiosks at low volumes, industrial designers and engineers need to...

CASE STUDY: Highly Complex Part Thermoforming for a Rollscope Housing Redesign

We regularly deal with customers who simply don’t know what is possible in the modern thermoforming...