When a mold designer designs a mold, he or she needs to choose correct mold steel for the mold, so the mold designer need to know some basic requirements for the performance of plastic mold steel:
High rigidity and sound abrasion resistance, surface hardness of cavity should be 30—60 HRC and hardenability>55HRC, sufficient hardening depth is required and sufficient obdurability is demanded at the heart therein to avoid brittle fracture and deformation.