As a leading plastic injection moulding company, we offer bespoke component assembly and finishing services. This helps our customers simplify their manufacturing processes, reduce unit cost, compress lead-times, bring products to market faster and meet fluctuating market demand.
We provide services throughout the entire process from concept design and consultation through injection moulding to finishing and assembly. For most of our customers we bulk pack components, hold stock in our warehouse and organise shipping to their premises but we also offer bespoke printing and packaging for fully finished products.
Benefits of component assembly as part of the plastic injection moulding process
Simplified
manufacturing
process
Reduce the number of suppliers and streamline the supply chain.
Compressed
lead
times
Compress lead times and bring products to market faster.
Reduced
unit
cost
Benefit from economies of scale having a single supplier.
Improved
quality
control
Consistent quality control throughout the entire manufacturing process.
Reduced
inventory
cost
Secure stock holding and bulk packing of components.
Our assembly operation
Our assembly operation uses a variety of production processes and systems, including:
- Manual assembly of components to build sub-assemblies or finished assemblies
- Hotplate welding, hot stake welding, hot air cold staking, screw-sert and heat-sert
- Ultrasonic welding, for assembly of both plastic components and filter materials to plastic components
- Inserting: tri-serts and heat staking
- Pressure and vacuum leak testing
- Sterilisation
- Four-colour tampo printing, label printing and application
- Packing
In addition, some finishing processes such as coatings on the inside of casings can only be carried out during the assembly stage.
How we help our customers
For one of our print industry customers, we injection mould and carry out full cell assembly of inkjet cartridges. Quality and service is very important as the finished cartridge goes straight out to their customers from their premises once filled with ink.
Two types of assembly facilities
Purpose built assembly
Our purpose-built injection moulding assembly facility is configured to optimise the assembly, testing and finishing processes. We use MOST (Maynards Operation Sequence Technique) to set standard times and monitor output, enabling us to deliver consistently high-quality plastic injection moulded assemblies for all applications, from medical mouldings to industrial components, at competitive rates.
Cleanroom assembly
Our Class 7/10,000 cleanroom assembly area provides the ideal environment for production of highly sensitive mouldings and components. We have purpose-built assembly areas within our cleanroom where components that require controlled conditions for applications such as medical devices and electronics can be assembled.
Sterilisation
In addition to cleanroom plastic injection moulding and assembly, our medical customers sometimes need components to be sterilised to reduce the bioburden of their devices as part of the validation and PPAP service.
Due to the high penetrating power of gamma radiation, this method allows for many parts to be sterilised together. Gamma irradiation is also suitable for almost all types of plastic. It is a reliable, safe and versatile process that we can manage for you.
