What is Plastic Injection Moulding?
Injection moulding is the process of injecting warmed plastic material into a pre made tooling mould to realise the desired shape.
The fluid material fills the cavity of the mould to the pre-determined shape made between the fixed and moving halves of the tool.
The tool can be designed to make one of a product, multiples of the same product or different products within the same tool.
Plastic injection moulding process:
Benefits
- Fast and material efficient production compared to other forms of moulding.
- Repeatability of complex geometry and tolerances.
- Enhanced strength and thermal resistance properties (grade dependent)
- Flexibility of material and colour options
- Lower piece part cost than metal alternatives.
Capability
We have injection moulding machine sizes ranging from 25T to 80T. This enables us to produce parts up to a shot weight of 1g to 100g .
We are highly experienced in producing small, medium and large batch runs of components in the following materials for customers.
- ABS
- Acetal (POM)
- Unfilled and Glass Filled Nylon (PA)
- Polypropylene (PP)
If you are unsure about the application of each, check out some examples of our work.
Many of our die casting customers take the opportunity to purchase plastic injection moulded parts from us as well, reducing the number of suppliers they work with for their casting / moulding solutions.
If you require new tooling to be made we can usually make tools in house to keep costs down, or we have trusted tool making partners who we can manage on your behalf through the life of the tooling project. We also have experience of receiving tooling already in use elsewhere and running it at BSC for you.
We are also able to pack plastic components into a kit with casting products or other sourced parts if this adds value to our customer.