What Is a Berry? To understand what a berry is, it is important to distinguish between the botanical definition of a berry and the commonly accepted definition. Flowering plants have ovaries that develop into fruits that contain seeds after fertilization. In the botanical definition, a berry is a fruit with seeds that have developed from a single ovary of a single flower. It is fleshy throughout and therefore [...]
What Is Custom Injection Moulding? Custom moulding is the process of creating a mould to specified requirements and then using the mould to create custom components. When designing your components with Thunderbird Plastics, our team of engineers first take the time to understand your business, your team, and your unique requirements. Once the requirements are understood, the Thunderbird team creates a digital 3D CAD model that is [...]
Balancing Cost and Efficiency of Labour and Tools Like all modern industries, the construction sector is not immune to the pressures of optimizing output, accuracy, and expenditures. A construction firm’s success hinges on the delicate balance of profit and expenditure. As such, the cost of tools, labour, and supplies must exist at the intersection between quality and cost. Building firms often make projections for these crucial figures. [...]
Plastics’ Societal Impact: Building Our Environments and Societies It is easy to underestimate how the discovery of plastics has revolutionized the average human’s daily existence. While plastics gained widespread use in the early 20th century, the desire for a malleable material to create tools, art, and other objects is ancient in humans. The earliest human beings possessed a mind primed to build and create and it is [...]
Unveiling Thunderbird’s 40-Year Legacy in Injection Molded Plastics Since its founding in 1976, Thunderbird Plastics has undergone a unique and admirable business journey. After a decades-long buyout process, the company finally landed in the hands of the Nucera family where it lovingly stays today. With an expansive product lineup of high-quality injection-moulded HPDE plastic industrial products, Thunderbird is much more than a product manufacturer. At Thunderbird, you [...]
