Specialist Injection Moulding Devon, UK

Manas Injection Moulding Ltd is an established injection moulding company based in Devon, and has customers from all over the UK as well as the South West and Devon. We have 4 well-maintained Arburg moulding machines and two Hiatian Mars machines that allow us to manufacture plastic components up to 295 grams in weight. Our machines have a clamping tonnage of between 25 - 160 tonnes.

We have over 55 years of experience within the plastics industry and you will find us helpful and easy to work with. We have a wealth of information and contacts that will help to achieve your expectations.

We also try to help our customers understand the process using layman terminology. We want you to understand the process.

Established in 2006 after years of working in the technical areas of multi shot injection moulding. We opened the company at Henley's Business Park with 2 moulding machines.

We supply local and national companies with high quality plastic components for a wide varity of industries. Our customer's range from automotive, medical, electronics, communications, construction, white goods, leisure and the fiber optic industries.

We can make anything from a custom plastic washer, to a metal replacement engineered automotive part, in a clean well maintained unit.

We maintain a good relationship with our customers from concept to end product.

Meeting customers expectations is the reason we are still in business.

We have a material traceability system from material delivery to end product.

We maintain a standard first off/last off check, patrol system, or tailor our system to what our customers require.

We also ensure that the customers tooling is well maintained to ensure low maintenance costs and long life.

Our costing system is a simple to understand break down:

• Machine Rate - Determined by size of machine
• Operator Charge - Standard hourly rate
• Material Cost - Cost per kilogram
• Second Operations Cost - Standard hourly rate
• Packaging Cost - Cost of boxes and bags
• Delivery Charge - Pallet charge or per box cost. Copy with invoice
• Tool trialling is determined by machine rate per hour, material and packaging
• Our payment terms are a standard 30 days from the end of the month

We produce small trial batches to large volume production runs for our customers. We can also assist with tool trialling and proving concepts using prototype tooling. This service is provided to toolmakers and customers bringing tools back from offshore locations.

We can also assist with design and tooling from quality British toolmakers.

We strive to assist from the concept to production of quality components that realize the customers requirement. From design, material selection to sourcing quality tooling, we can help.

All our machines and equipment are well maintained by a fully qualified maintenance engineer:

• 1 Haitian Mars II 160 Ton clamping force
  295 gram shot weight
• 1 Haitian Mars III 90 Ton clamping force
  139 gram shot weight
• 1 Arburg Selogica 25 Ton clamping force
  71 gram shot weight
• 1 Arburg M Series 25 Ton clamping force
  58 gram shot weight
• 1 Arburg M Series 50 Ton clamping force
  90 grams shot weight
• 1 Arburg M Series 100 Ton clamping force
  121 grams shot weight
• 1 Manumould 2.5 inch plunger prototyping machine
• 1 Motan pressure dryer for low dew point engineering polymers
• 2 x 25 litre SHD air dryers
• 3 x 12 litre Jenco air dryers
• Rotary dryer
• Tool Temp tool heaters
• Tool Temp / ICS / Sigma Chillers
• Hot runner controllers
• Conveyors
• Material loaders

We use most of the commodity polymers from LDPE to highly engineered metal replacement polymers.

The main polymers processed are:

• ABS. Filled and Unfilled
• Nylons: PA6, PA66 Glass Filled
• Polypropylene, Filled and Unfilled
• Polycarbonate
• Acetal, POM
• Polyester
• PPO
• LDPE
• HDPE
• TPE Thermoplastic elastomer

Richard Tithecott - Technical/Production
Simon Hall - Technical/Production
Nigel Cottell - Maintenance Engineer
Richard Hartmink - Quality and systems advisor (Southwest Metrology Ltd)

• All photographs are supplied with the customers permission.
• We will never contact your customer.
• We will never copy your products.
• We will never use your product information to assist your competitors with material selection or product design.