Downloadable guide

Plastic Surface Finish and Texture: Specifying It So the Right Thing Arrives

Most finish disputes are not production failures but specification failures: a texture named on a drawing with no sample behind it, or a gloss level measured on a different geometry. This guide covers the texture and mold-finishing systems we work to, what each one does to the tool, and how to hand over a finish requirement that survives the conversation.

What's inside

• Mold texturing systems and how they are named, matched and sampled
• Polish grades and the tool cost each step adds
• Gloss, haze and direction: why the same texture reads differently on a curved face
• Secondary finishing: painting, plating, printing and pad printing, and what they need first