Did you know?
We have more than 650 customers servicing a broad range of market sectors
Our total business on-time delivery is consistently above 90%
We manage over 10,000 different designs every year
We utilise hundreds of materials in thousands of sizes from our global supplier network
How we can help?
Material Selection
Our customers ask for help in developing new products and optimising existing designs. This requires careful selection to find the most suitable material for application and establishing the optimum process for manufacture.
Design Engineers face a growing number of polymer products, each with their own characteristics and suitability for application. Whether your existing expertise is with metal or plastic, we can help by providing the following:
- impartial advice on material selection
- sourcing of materials from our global supplier base, by brand or generic grades, to meet your exact specification
- access to plastic experts and property data from our own business and supply partners
- development of new materials tailored to your requirements or launched from manufacturers
- sampling, testing and material certification.
Design Advice
Our customers ask for help in developing new products and optimising existing designs. This requires careful selection to find the most suitable material for application and establishing the optimum process for manufacture.
Careful consideration of the final commercial product at the earliest stages of a new design helps to realise project completion quicker.
We can assist by providing the following:
- project management from concept to volume production
- involving our manufacturing engineers from the start to provide guidance on tolerances and optimisation for machining
- adding value by exploring secondary operations such as fabrication, welding, assembly, cleaning and packaging
- helping explore alternative manufacturing technologies such as injection moulding.
