Plastic-IT: A Home for Challenging Injection Moulding Projects

Shropshire-based Plastic-IT is inviting manufacturers to discuss injection moulding projects that require greater flexibility, engineering input and customer support. The engineering-led manufacturer welcomes low and medium-volume production, legacy tooling, reshoring and transferred projects, and technically demanding moulding work.

Plastic-IT is particularly well suited to low and medium-volume production, legacy mould tools, technically challenging components and projects affected by persistent quality or process issues. The company can also support manufacturers looking to transfer existing tooling, return production to the UK or find a more responsive manufacturing partner.

Rather than focusing solely on high-volume, fully automated production, Plastic-IT has built its approach around understanding each project and providing the technical support needed to move it forward.

“Many of the projects we are best suited to are those that need additional engineering involvement and close customer support,” said Richard Webster of Plastic-IT.

“This could be a low or medium-volume job, a legacy tool that no longer suits another moulder’s business model, a technically challenging component or a product affected by quality and processing problems.

“We are also happy to discuss tool transfers and projects that customers want to bring back to the UK. The important thing is understanding what the customer is trying to achieve and determining how we can help.”

Engineering support from concept to production

Plastic-IT’s Art-to-Part service supports customers throughout the product development and manufacturing process.

This can begin with an initial sketch or product concept. It continues through Design for Manufacture, additive manufacturing, prototype development, Moldflow simulation, tooling, validation, injection moulding, and contract manufacturing.

Customers do not need to begin at the concept stage, however. Plastic-IT can enter an existing project at any point, whether that involves reviewing a design, investigating a moulding defect, assessing a tool, validating a process or taking responsibility for ongoing production.

This broad capability allows the company to investigate the cause of problems, using its expert support to prevent costly defects and failures that cost customers time and money.

“Our philosophy is simple: Get It Right First Time. By identifying potential issues early in the design and tooling stages, we help customers avoid expensive modifications, reduce development time and get products to market faster. In the long run, that approach reduces cost and risk for our customers,” adds Richard.

By applying DFM and simulation expertise early, the company helps customers reduce development risk, control costs and bring products into production more efficiently.

Advanced moulding capability in action

One recent programme highlights the breadth of the company’s engineering capability. Working under a strict confidentiality agreement for a leading company in the satellite communications sector, Plastic-IT supported the development of a highly complex product from initial concept through to full contract manufacture over a four-year period.

The project involved designing and validating precision injection mould tooling capable of consistently producing specialist metamaterial components to tolerances of ±0.05mm.

These exceptionally tight tolerances were essential to ensure multiple hemispherical mouldings aligned and mated perfectly during a secondary bonding process, eliminating cumulative tolerance build-up and creating a single, dimensionally stable homogeneous structure.

Plastic-IT then designed, commissioned and integrated a fully automated robotic overmoulding cell to deliver repeatable, high-volume production.

Projects like this demonstrate the company’s ability to combine product development, tooling, precision moulding, automation and manufacturing engineering to solve technically demanding challenges in advanced engineering sectors.

A responsive manufacturing partner

Plastic-IT works across multiple sectors including automotive, defence, industrial, aerospace, medical devices, consumer goods and packaging.

Backed by over 25 years of injection moulding experience, the company combines practical processing knowledge with Autodesk Moldflow analysis, prototyping, tooling, production consultancy and manufacturing support.

Plastic-IT is ISO 9001:2015 certified and JOSCAR registered, supporting customers with demanding quality and supply chain requirements.

“Our reputation has been built around engineering support, quality, responsiveness and long-term customer relationships,” Richard continued.

“We understand that some projects need more attention than a straightforward production contract. Where a customer is struggling with an existing supplier, dealing with an awkward low-run product, relocating a mould tool or trying to resolve a persistent problem, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss it.”

Looking for a new home for an injection moulding project, or having persistent problems with your manufacturing? Contact Plastic-IT on 01743 213007, email sales@plastic-it.co.uk or visit plastic-it.co.uk.

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