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News Release from: Toolcraft Plastics (Swindon) | Subject: Coloured plastics mouldings
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 May 2005
Moulded plastics are coloured without
clotting
Plastics moulder can now guarantee colours without clots in prime or secondary colours in any shade from pastel to deep, even luminescent, to provide a decorative finish at practically zero cost.
One prime advantage of plastic is its ability to accept colour Prime or secondary colours in any shade from pastel to deep, even luminescent, provide a decorative finish at practically zero cost
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Low cost tooling cuts time to market for mouldings
With the ever increasing pressures on both delivery times and costs, a Swindon company has set out methods for the quick production of mould tooling using low cost materials.
Starting with high quality raw materials of homogeneous colour, and using particular pre-moulding mixing methods Toolcraft Plastics can now guarantee colours without clots, even in small batches.
Benefits of infinite choice however come balanced by production problems of colour matching.
Different component sizes, often with differing wall thicknesses, butting up to parts of the same colour highlight these problems.
Colour clots in transparent parts such as the automotive instrument component would show up any poor colour quality.
For some metallic finishes, techniques for vacuum depositing metals onto a base colour have been developed to give better results, especially for reflective surfaces.
As an initial guide to this jungle, Toolcraft Plastics have an abbreviated analysis of materials "on web".
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