The industry of plastics has been growing in the last decades worldwide and Costa Rica is an active competitor of this market, one of the most popular processes in this industry is molding plastics and an essential part of this process is the develop of the mold because it will determine in many ways the quality of the final product. In order to strengthen the methodology of the business the author proposes the following article which contains the data resulting from some mechanical tests and metallographies of different AISI certified steels thermochemichally treated, just thermically treated or non-treated, subsequent that data is contrasted with the most popular procedures in the Costa Rican molding plastics market to compare the appropriate or inappropriate according to their properties that the steels are for the production of the molds used in any of the different procedures.

Analysis of different steel alloys in order to identify their convenience to constitute molds for the Costa Rican plastics market

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