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Toolcraft Plastics (Swindon)
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Reverse engineering vacuum forming tools
Old vacuum forming tools can be reproduced using metal filled resins at a lower cost compared with making a new tool, as Toolcraft Plastics explains.
News from Engineeringtalk, 24 May 2006
Plastics designs are ready for production
A child's cup, cases for medical and GPS devices and personal safety products are just some of the products that inventors and engineers have chosen Toolcraft to design.
News from Engineeringtalk, 5 April 2006
Plastics come with colours guaranteed
Toolcraft Plastics can now guarantee colours without clots, even in small batches.
News from Engineeringtalk, 6 May 2005
Rapid prototypes cut from solid plastics
To further enhance the Toolcraft rapid prototyping service, parts can be cut in solid plastic using files direct from design software.
News from Engineeringtalk, 9 April 2004
Modified elastomer satisfies multiple demands
The team at Toolcraft specialises in plastics and elastomeric materials, and can often satisfy the multiple needs of client applications.
News from Engineeringtalk, 16 January 2004
Novel solution cuts tooling costs
Toolcraft Plastics of Swindon reduced tooling costs by two-thirds with the simple yet ingenious idea of splitting the cylinder of Golf-Tech's golf ball server into two parts.
News from Engineeringtalk, 22 October 2003
Novel design for multipurpose keyfob
Innovators Carol-Anne Ormsby and Debbi Steven turned to Toolcraft Plastics for help in the production of a key attachment that has a multipurpose role as a personal safety aid for women.
News from Engineeringtalk, 16 September 2003
Expansion creates full set of processes
Toolcraft Plastics of Swindon has recently extended its existing toolmaking, injection moulding and vacuum forming facilities with blow moulding and extrusion facilities.
News from Engineeringtalk, 10 April 2003
Plastic gives to improve on steel limits
A better seal at a considerably lower cost was achieved by Toolcraft Plastics of Swindon, when two steel valve seating rings were redesigned to be extruded in a tough plastic.
News from Engineeringtalk, 21 March 2003
Biodegradable plastics offer green alternative
The biodegradable properties of polyvinyl alcohol make it ideal in the creation of thermoplastics for the production of environmentally acceptable disposable parts.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 March 2003
Ultrasonic welding simplifies mould tooling
Ultrasonic welding now supplements the sizable moulding and in-house tool manufacturing facility at Toolcraft Plastics offering customers optimum economy of manufacture.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 February 2003
Biodegradable plastics take on wood and ash
Toolcraft Plastics has been working with suppliers to check out the moulding characteristics of biodegradable materials impregnated with wood and ash.
News from Engineeringtalk, 16 January 2003
Tool adaptation cures moulding problems
Toolcraft Plastic's experience at adapting existing mould tools was severely tested recently, when it received over 20 tools from existing customers whose moulders had ceased trading.
News from Engineeringtalk, 30 December 2002
Custom designs for tool holders
Toolcraft Plastics of Swindon has turned its experience in vacuum formed storage trays to the development of a range of tool-holders to contain CNC cutting tools.
News from Engineeringtalk, 18 October 2002
Trays carry environmental reminder
Storage trays manufactured by Toolcraft Plastics of Swindon can now carry a vacuum formed message on that they are "reusable".
News from Engineeringtalk, 24 September 2002
Two-part moulding provides hard and soft combo
Two different materials were used in constructing the case for a novel handheld gas monitor: a tough plastic substrate and a softer rubberised material for a comfortable touch.
News from Engineeringtalk, 9 September 2002
Mould provides economies on small parts
Toolcraft Plastics has designed and manufactured a 16-impression mould tool with removable inserts in just 8 weeks to enable a client to keep ahead in an economy battle with foreign manufacturers.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 July 2002
Fast tools for plastics
Tool manufacture took a large part of the critical path to launch EDC's green drain pan pump, designed to empty 14 litres of water per hour from air conditioning equipment through small-bore tubes.
News from Engineeringtalk, 8 July 2002
Plastics provide time and cost savings
An improved seal at a considerably lower cost was achieved by Toolcraft Plastics of Swindon, when two steel valve seating rings were redesigned to be extruded in a tough plastic.
News from Engineeringtalk, 30 May 2002
One-stop shop cuts goods-in procedures
In recent times "one stop shop" has become an overworked phrase, but Toolcraft Plastics has found its facility to ultrasonically weld plastic parts has proved more than just useful to clients.
News from Engineeringtalk, 15 April 2002
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