Injection Molding

A manufacturing process for producing parts from both thermoplastic and thermosetting 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 cavity. After a product is designed, usually by an industrial designer or an engineer.

Insert Molding

Insert molding is a highly efficient process by which metal stampings, bushings, electronic parts, and other discrete parts are combined into a single component through the injection of thermoplastic around the carefully placed parts.  This can eliminate post assembly labor and form and integral part of your design.

Over Molding

Overmolding is a process very similar to insert molding except it involves plastic over plastic instead of plastic over metal. Overmolding involves it's own set of issues to obtain the proper shutoff's that plastic (as opposed to metal) presents. Technicraft Plastics has been in the overmolding business for many years and has a great deal of experience in overmolding dissimilar materials. In several cases, thermoplastic rubbers have been overmolded to give "soft touch" or other desired mechanical properties.

Pad Printing

Pad printing is a printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object. This is accomplished using an indirect offset (gravure) printing process that involves an image being transferred from the cliché via a silicone pad onto a substrate. Pad printing is used for printing on otherwise impossible products in many industries including medical, automotive, promotional, apparel, and electronic objects, as well as appliances, sports equipment and toys. It can also be used to deposit functional materials such as conductive inks, adhesives, dyes and lubricants.

Assembly

Defined as the act of putting things together, assembly can take many forms.  Technicraft Plastics offers full assembly of both the parts we manufacture for you and we can incorporate other parts that another vendor may supply.  Whether your project is hand assembled by our  skilled employees or makes use of our assembly equipment, Technicraft can meet all your needs.

Package Design

Packaging is the science, art, and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and personal use.

Logistics

Logistics is the management of the flow of resources, not only goods, between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and often security. Today the complexity of production logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized and optimized by plant simulation software, but is constantly changing.