Adapting our services to suit your requirements

Rugby Plastics offer an array of plastic injection moulding services which can aid your company and assist with the manufacture of your products. Our vast knowledge of the industry enables us to provide our customers with a powerful resource and method for success. The services listed below are integral to the plastic injection moulding process and can be adapted depending on your requirements.

CAD Design: Our CAD (Computer Aided Design) system is a combination of hardware and software that enables our designers to devise every part of the product. CAD allows our designers to view a planned image from any angle with the push of a button and to zoom in or out for close-ups and long-distance views. In addition, the computer keeps track of design dependencies so that when the designer changes one value, all other values that depend on it are automatically changed accordingly.
Rapid Tooling: This is the application of rapid prototyping methods to the fabrication of customized moulds, dies, and tools used to produce parts. Rapid Tooling is distinguished from conventional tooling in that the time taken to complete the process is much shorter, it costs less, tool life is longer and it possesses wider tolerances.
Insert Moulding: This is the process by which plastic parts containing metal inserts, or other materials, are produced. The inserts are placed in the mould prior to the injection of plastic. The plastic then flows around the inserts and fixes their position. This enables an integration of materials to meet the needs of companies requiring bespoke products.
Sonic Welding: The process of Sonic Welding involves the assembled plastic parts of the product being subjected to high-frequency sound waves. This vibrates the seams of the plastic and causes friction and high, focused heat. This heat actually melts or welds the plastic parts together. The process is very clean and allows for a strong, nearly unbreakable bond to be formed.
Printing: There are several processes of printing that can be used and applied to the presentation of your plastic product. Hot foil printing is recognised as a very durable form of marking or decorating one off or volume parts. Silk screen printing is the stencilled replication of images from a piece of film which is then used to ink the design to the product surface. Pad printing is used for printing across relatively small areas of plastic items and also when the area is difficult to get at or contoured. In addition to this other printing processes are applied to many of the plastic products produced by Rugby Plastics.

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