(i)    a high molding speed adapted for mass production is possible;
(ii)    there is a wide choice of thermoplastic materials providing a variety of useful properties;
(iii)    it is possible to mold threads, undercuts, side holes, and large thin sections.
Several methods are used to force or inject the melted plastic into the mold. The most commonly used system in the larger machines is the in-line reciprocating screw. The screw acts as a combination and plasticizing unit. As the plastic is fed to the rotating screw, it passes through three zones as shown: feed, compression, and metering. After the feed zone, the screw-flight depth is gradually reduced, forcing the plastic to compress. The work is converted to heat by shearing the plastic, making it a semi fluid mass. In the metering zone, additional heat is applied by conduction from the barrel surface. As the chamber in front of the screw becomes filled, it forces the screw back, tripping a limit switch that activates a hydraulic cylinder that forces the screw forward and injects the fluid plastic into the closed mold. An antiflowback valve prevents plastic under pressure from escaping back into the screw flights.
The clamping force that a machine is capable of exerting is part of the size designation and is measured in tons. A rule-of-thumb can be used to determine the tonnage required for a particular job. It is based on two tons of clamp force per square inch of projected area. If the flow pattern is difficult and the parts are thin, this may have to go to three or four tons.
Many reciprocating - screw machines are capable of handing thermosetting plastic materials. Previously these materials were handled by compression or transfer molding. Thermosetting  materials  cure  or polymerize in the mold and are ejected hot in the range of 375℃～410℃.Thermoplastic parts must be allowed to cool in the mold in order to remove them without distortion. Thus thermosetting cycles can be faster. Of course the mold must be heated rather than chilled, as with thermoplastics.
The importance of injecting the mold are:
⑴、Plastics have the density small, the quality light, the  specific tenacity big, the insulating property good, the dielectric loss low, the chemical stability strong, the formation productivity high and the price inexpensive and so on the merits, obtained day by day the widespread application in the national economy and people's daily life each domain, as early as in the beginning of 1990s, the plastic annual output already surpassed the steel and iron and the non-ferrous metal annual output sum total according to the volume computation. In mechanical and electrical (for example so-called black electrical appliances), domains and so on measuring appliance, chemical, the automobile and astronautics aviation, the plastic has become  the metal the good substitution material, had the metal material plastic tendency.
⑵、Take the automobile industry as the example, as a result of the automobile lightweight, the low  energy  consumption development request, the automobile spare part material constitution occurred obviously has modeled the band steel the change, at present   our country automobile plastic accounts for 5% which the automobile was self-possessed to 6%, but overseas has reached 13%, forecast according to the expert, the automobile plastic bicycle amount used will also be able further to increase. On modern vehicles, regardless of is outside installs the assorted items, the  internal    installation assorted items, the function and the structural element, all may use the plastic material, outside installs the assorted items to have the bumper, the fender, the wheel hub cap, the air deflector and so on; After the internal installation assorted items have in the display board, the vehicle door the board, the vice-display board, the sundry goods box lid, the chair, the guard shield and so on; The function and the structural element have the fuel tank, the radiator header, the spatial filter hood, the fan blade and so on. Statistics have indicated, our country in 2000 automobile output more than 200 ten thousand, the vehicle amounted to 1,380,000 tons with the plastic. Looked from the domestic and foreign automobile plastic application situation that, the automobile plastic amount used already became one of weight automobile production technical level symbols. 模具的发展与趋势英文文献和中文翻译(4):http://www.751com.cn/fanyi/lunwen_5499.html