Plastic injection moulding capabilities
OUR PLASTIC INJECTION MOULDING CAPABILITY
To provide full support across the UK as a plastic injection moulding company, we have two manufacturing sites:
Detailed below are our main manufacturing and injection moulding and finishing systems and machines.
PLASTIC INJECTION MOULDING CAPABILITIES AT OUR YARNTON SITE, OXFORDSHIRE
- 52,000 square feet manufacturing facility
- 34 injection moulding machines including triple shot (3k) and overmoulding
- 4 injection moulding machines feeding into a class 7 cleanroom
- Injection moulding machines from 35 – 400 tonnes (Krauss Maffei and Arburg)
- Injection moulding of elastomers and polymers
Automation systems used with our plastic injection moulding machines
- 52,000 square feet manufacturing facility
- 34 injection moulding machines including triple shot (3k) and overmoulding
- 4 injection moulding machines feeding into a class 7 cleanroom
- Injection moulding machines from 35 – 400 tonnes (Krauss Maffei and Arburg)
- Injection moulding of elastomers and polymers
Production monitoring & control
- Real time production monitoring, reporting and planning
- MRP/ERP
Post mould operation, assembly and test
- Ultrasonic welding (in-house)
- Hot Plate welding (in-house)
- Spin welding (in-house)
- Laser transmission welding
- RFI/EMC coating
- Heat staking (in-house)
- Laser Etching
- Tampo printing (in-house)
- Inserting (in-house)
- Pressure Testing (in-house)
- Leak Testing (in-house)
- Full product assembly and testing (in-house)
Additive Manufacturing (3D Metal Printing)
- Matsuura LUMEX 25 Hybrid Metal Additive Manufacturing machine used for manufacturing Mould Tool inserts and End Use Production Parts
- Technology for rapidly and accurately producing metal inserts with Conformal Cooling in mould tool cores
Design for injection moulding
- New tool design
- Moldflow analysis
- Design for manufacture (DFM)
- SolidWorks 3D CAD (2019)
Tooling for injection moulding
- In-house Toolroom
- Manufacture of new tools, in-house and with established UK and overseas toolmakers offering maximum flexibility
- Servicing, maintenance, repair and overhaul of existing tools
Injection moulding quality control
- Dedicated quality teams
- Co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM)
- OPG Vision measuring machine (VMM)
- Full product verification and validation process undertaken
- ISO 9001: 2015 (manufacturing)
- ISO 13485: 2016 (medical)
- ISO 14001: 2015 (environmental)
Project Management and logistics
- Dedicated NPI team
- Kanban with daily call off’s, consignment stock, scheduled orders
PLASTIC INJECTION MOULDING CAPABILITIES IN SOUTH WALES
In addition to our extensive injection moulding capabilities at our headquarters in Oxford, we also have dedicated injection moulding facilities at our production centre in Hengoed. These include:
- 40,000 square feet manufacturing facility
- 13 injection moulding machines
- Injection moulding machines from 80 – 1,000 tonnes
- Injection moulding of elastomers and polymers
- Servicing, maintenance, repair and overhaul of existing tools
