Design For Manufacture Plastic Injection Moulding Services UK

Design For Manufacture Plastic Injection Moulding Services UK

A component designed without moulding in mind almost always ends up costing more to produce than one shaped with the process in view from the start. Andel Plastics offers design for manufacture services from our Birmingham facility, reviewing a plastic component's geometry, wall thickness and feature placement to identify anything that would make it harder, slower or more expensive to injection mould. Our engineering team draws on direct, hands on experience running our own moulding machines and in house toolroom, so recommendations come from what actually happens on the shop floor rather than from theory alone. Catching these issues before tooling is cut avoids costly redesigns further down the line, when a mould has already been machined around a problematic feature. We work across a wide range of polymers, from commodity plastics through to more technically demanding engineering grades, adjusting our advice to suit the material as much as the shape.

For UK manufacturers developing a new plastic component, this kind of upfront design input is what keeps a project on schedule and on budget once it reaches full production.