Can you use injection moulding on wood?

Question

the wood is MDF

Answer 1

I just answered your last question. You cannot injection mold already formed MDF. But, you can mold it before it is made into sheets.

An injection molding machine works like this; The part to be made is hollowed out of a steel block. The block is made to come apart in two or more pieces. That steel block is called a Die. The Die is bolted into the machine and a nozzel is put into a special hole in the Die. The mixture to be injected into to the Die is in a slurry form. The slurry is then fed into a jack s***w which when turned, forces the slurry into the Die at tremendous pressure.

Very basically, that's how injection molding is accomplished.

Now I am going to read you third question, the one with all of the caps.

Answer 2

~~~No-it would not work.~~~

Answer 3

Are you asking if wood (or even worse glued together wood waste = MDF) can be used to form a mold in which hot molten plastic is injected at thousands of PSI? If so the answer is NO WAY.

Answer 4

depends what wood, i wold have though it would stick