To start of the New Year, I thought you might be interested in knowing a bit on how we manufacture our products. We use what is called “injection molding”.
Injection molding is a manufacturing process for producing parts from 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.
The first man-made plastic was invented in Britain in 1851 by Alexander Parkes, calling the material he produced “Parkesine” Derived from cellulose, Parkesine could be heated, molded, and retain its shape when cooled. It was, however, expensive to produce, prone to cracking, and highly flammable. In 1868, American inventor John Wesley Hyatt developed a plastic material he named Celluloid, improving on Parkes’ invention so that it could be processed into finished form. Together with his brother Isaiah, Hyatt patented the first injection molding machine, this machine was relatively simple compared to machines in use today. The industry expanded rapidly in the 1940s because World War II created a huge demand for inexpensive, mass-produced products. In 1946, American inventor James Watson Hendry built the first screw injection machine, which allowed much more precise control over the speed of injection and the quality of articles produced. In the 1970s, Hendry went on to develop the first gas-assisted injection molding process, which permitted the production of complex, hollow articles that cooled quickly.
Today in 2011, the possibilites are unlimited! We only use inert polypropylene for all our products.
Our multidisciplinary team in development of product and in marketing is strong of more than ten years of experience in the conception of products intended for the industries of film and audio. It will assure the realization of your project, whether it is the modification of one of our products or the creation and the development of a new one. Our integrated solutions allow the manufacturing, the deployment, the delivery and the strategy of supply of your product thanks to an established distribution network worldwide.