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Article: PROCESSING: Three shot moulding reduces costs and shortens lead times
- Article from:
- High Performance Plastics
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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To satisfy the increasing need for more innovative and complex designs using plastic, three shot moulding offers an affordable option for designers wanting to expand the use of colour, shading, contrasts, texture and material type to differentiate the look of their products. Sifam claims to be the first company in the UK to offer three shot moulding for general industrial use. The new process, run on the latest Engel machinery, can incorporate three different elements; that is three materials (including soft touch) or three colours, or a combination of both, in only one operation. Previously, adding elements to a standard moulding involved timely and expensive assembly, ...