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Plastic cups can be made up of a number of materials, polypropylene, polyethylene, polycarbonate. Depending on the detail required there are also a few manufacturing process that would be appropriate. Injection moulding is good for high levels of detail but is expensive. Rotational moulding is not as precise but alot cheaper.

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