Injection moulding

Injection moulding is a production process in which a polymer melt is injected into a mould, where it is cooled in a steered way in order to be hardened out to receive a fixed desired shape. For injection moulding, knowledge of product design, mould design, rheology, and mould flow is required. This knowledge and experience is well available within the SPIC cluster. Research on injection moulding is performed on for example biopolymers (such as PLA, PHA and TPS), engineering plastics, medical grade parts and fiber filled products. After the research phase it can easily be up-scaled at the p...Read more

Injection moulding is a production process in which a polymer melt is injected into a mould, where it is cooled in a steered way in order to be hardened out to receive a fixed desired shape. For injection moulding, knowledge of product design, mould design, rheology, and mould flow is required. This knowledge and experience is well available within the SPIC cluster. Research on injection moulding is performed on for example biopolymers (such as PLA, PHA and TPS), engineering plastics, medical grade parts and fiber filled products. After the research phase it can easily be up-scaled at the production partners within the SPIC-Emmen cluster.

We also have the equipment and knowledge to perform measurements for the Production Part Approval Process( PPaP) used in the automotive industry.

The company H&P Moulding in Emmen has 22 injection moulding machines with clamping tonnages from 10 to 130 T. One of these machines can mould 2 components. Virtually all thermoplastic materials can be processed and we therefore have material dehumidifying equipment and mould temperature controlling units. This equipment can be used from research to full production.
The production facility is ISO 13485 certified, specifically for medical parts, for which it has a ISO class 7 clean room

Production injection moulding

1300 kN clamping force

Production

Up-scaling research

500 kN clamping force

Up-scaling

R&D injection moulding

100 kN clamping force (e.g. dogbones)

Research-scale