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News Release from: Ceetak | Subject: Injection moulding service
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 January 2004
Two-shot moulding service cuts
production costs
Ceetak, a leading manufacturer of seal products, has launched an injection moulding service to help customers reduce costs of high volume components, improving both quality and delivery times
Ceetak, one of the UK's leading manufacturers and suppliers of specialised seal products, has launched a new injection moulding service, designed to help customers reduce the unit costs of high volume component parts, while significantly improving both quality and, in many applications, delivery times The new service is based on a proven two-shot injection moulding process that has previously been widely used for the manufacture of products to give a pattern or textured feel where two coloured plastics or TPE (Thermo Plastic Elastomers) rubber compounds need to be combined into a single part
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 30 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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To date, however, limitations in mould and process technology has restricted application to low value, relatively low quality components, such as toothbrush handles, automotive gear shift knobs and screw driver handles.
To overcome these limitations, Ceetak has worked closely with injection moulding machine suppliers and mould tool designers, to improve both mould tolerances and the level of control over process conditions.
Andrew Kownacki, Technical Director, explains: "This has taken time to perfect but has led to a significant increase in the quality with which we can produce two part components in a single moulding operation; perhaps as importantly, we can now do this consistently in high volumes but with extremely competitive prices.
This means that we can, for example, re-engineer replacement parts for products such as pneumatic valves that can be up to eight times less expensive, at identical standards of quality and often with better physical or mechanical properties".
The two part mouldings available through the new Ceetak service can be manufactured from most forms of thermoplastics and thermoplastic elastomer compounds and are produced in such a way that tough molecular bonds are formed between materials.
This ensures long term component reliability, while the potential to combine materials enables a variety of different performance characteristics to be built into each part.
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