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News Release from: Viking Plastics | Subject: Injection moulding
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2007
Injection moulding press for precision
engineering
Viking Plastics has upgraded its manufacturing technology in order to produce tighter-tolerance, precision-engineered components for the automotive fuel and HVAC industries.
Viking Plastics has purchased an all-electric injection moulding press integrated with a high-speed picker and part diverter - the first of several planned for purchase as part of the company's capital reinvestment program Expanding Viking's cellular manufacturing capacity, the equipment yields tighter tolerances and improved quality through SPC production monitoring and scientific moulding with suspect-process diversion
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Viking Plastics, a global supplier of injection-moulded sealing solutions, assemblies and custom-engineered components for more than 35 years, recently invested in upgrading its production capabilities in order to better serve the automotive and HVAC markets.
Resulting from the company's ongoing capital reinvestment strategy, Viking purchased a Niigata 110-ton, all-electric injection moulding press integrated with a high-speed picker and part diverter, which will be utilised to produce highly-engineered, automotive fuel and HVAC components.
Amongst numerous technological benefits, the new work-cell-based equipment enables production monitoring via Statistical Process Control (SPC), and automated identification and diversion of suspect components during manufacturing processes.
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