MOLDED PARTS
You can choose from a broad spectrum of existing molded parts: Our catalog of Standard Molded Parts will simplify selection, save on development costs, and let you test a design without committing resources. Once you have selected an item, we adjust our inventory to meet your delivery requirements.
Or, you can design your own! A custom molded product gives you such an advantage! It can be exclusively shaped and compounded to fit your solution package. Tolerances are more exact; and the part is repeatable from one batch to the next.
We can formulate and mix compounds to meet your physical and mechanical needs.
When we bond directly onto metal inserts, you avoid the costs of a messy gluing operation, and you get a superior part!
We start with the solution! What are the desired results? Will the design meet them? If in doubt, we can downscale our activities and build an inexpensive prototype mold. You test the parts under live conditions!
Even with production molds, before we start to produce, you see the "First Articles". (Final "fit and form" is done by you, without risking thousands of useless parts.)
Use our Molding Advantage to reduce your die-cutting costs. Drawing from a huge compound selection, we can mold special thickness sheet and solve many design constraints. Under special circumstances, we can grind these to precision tolerances as close as + .002".
Compression, transfer, LIM and Injection molding: whichever process is best and most cost effective for you!
Requests for custom molded items should include:
An accurate dimensional representation of the part; an elastomer to include a durometer hardness, tolerances needed, color, finish, non-staining needs; any special certification requirements such as FDA, NSF, Class VI medical, U/L, no mercury, etc.; as well as any notations which identify hidden areas of sensitivity such as flash restrictions, gate or sprue restrictions.
Requests for parts that require rubber-to-metal bonding should include: Details regarding the metal type; tolerances; surface area to bond to, painted or etched; and location of rubber are needed to ensure a proper bond of rubber to metal.
Are you adding expensive labor and mess to your assembly? OVER_MOLDING is a specialized process used to connect a rubber part to a different part of your assembly using molding techniques. For example: connecting an extruded tube to a molded end can be over-molded for a seamless, and labor-free part. |
