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
7 x Fanuc 6 axis robots
1 x Fanuc scara robot
12 x Sepro cnc Cartesian robots
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
