Injection Moulding

What is Injection Moulding?

Injection molding (British English: moulding) is a manufacturing process for producing parts from both thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic materials. Material is fed into a heated barrel, mixed, and forced into a mold cavity where it cools and hardens to the configuration of the mold cavity.^[1] After a product is designed, usually by an industrial designer or an engineer, molds are made by a moldmaker (or toolmaker) from metal, usually either steel or aluminum, and precision-machined to form the features of the desired part. Injection molding is widely used for manufacturing a variety of parts, from the smallest component to entire body panels of cars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injection_moulding

Ian Brown Engineering has a fully equipped manufacturing facility, offer Injection moulding, Blow Moulding, metal pressing and assembly all under one roof.

We manufacture products utilizing modern computer-aided injection moulding machinery with skilled machine operators.

Our state of the art facility has 5 injection moulding machines ranging from 20 to 175 tons, with product weight capabilities reaching 800grams.

There are various injection moulding processes that we are capable of executing, namely Insert, Multi-Cavity and Technical moulding.

The plastic materials we use range from

• Polyprop;
• ABS;
• Nylons;
• Polycarbonate
• styrene
• and many more

Our aim is a fast-turn-around time, whilst maintaining an effective quality control system. Getting the finished products delivered to you exactly when and where you need them, is a priority.

Low Cost Mould System

We are able to reduce lead times and mould costs by offer our clients our low cost mould option.

We offer the clients the option of only purchasing the two cavity plates and ejector system, we own and supply the bolster.

This reduces mould costs substantially and reduces lead times as we do not have to continuously manufacture complete mould sets.

This system best works for small components, but as we offer a full range of bolsters we can accommodate many different sized products.

With our latest project we were able to get production to our client within 7 days – Current Projects