Imtech Design Moldflow Analysis & Polymer Engineering solutions, operate the full suite of Moldflow flow simulation programs and software for injection molding product design advice and are able to analyses the smallest medical device to the largest car instrument panel quickly and efficiently to give you practical solutions to complex injection moulding problems for almost any type of plastic material on the database.

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Imtech Design Ltd was founded to provide our consultancy clients with the most practical polymer solutions and service. Imtech is committed to the client and understanding markets they serve and the injection moulding technology required to help design for success and bring new products to market quickly and efficiently.

Imtech Design are Moldflow Silver Certified Plastic Flow Simulation Consultants and Engineers and are experts in Mpi filling, cooling and warpage analysis. Imtech Design web site provides usefull information on trouble shooting plastics moulds including free mould flow design advice for plastics professionals.

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Moldflow Plastic Adviser, Plastics Insight, Moldflow Mpi, Mold flow communicator and Mold Adviser are Mould flow software products for simulating the injection molding of plastic materials. Imtech use CAD Connectivity Tools to link structural CAD - CAE to MPI, MPA and MPX Community projects in the plastics and tool making industry.

Moldflow is the registered trademark Moldflow Corporation & Moldflow Europe ltd and Mold flow Plastics Labs as advised in the flow front magazine and trade publications.

The Fiber-orientation flow analysis is used to predict the behavior of composite materials. While injection-molded fiber-reinforced thermoplastics constitute a major commercial application of short-fiber composite (a filler within a polymer matrix) materials, the modeling of the process is more complex than in other flow applications. In injection-molded composites, the fiber alignment (or orientation) distributions show a layered nature, and are affected by the filling speed, the processing conditions and material behavior, plus the fiber aspect ratio and concentration. Without proper consideration of the fiber behavior, there is a tendency to significantly overestimate the orientation levels. The Moldflow fiber orientation model allows significantly improved orientation prediction accuracy over a range of materials and fiber contents.

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Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)

Properties: Compatibility with many different kinds of additives - PVC can be clear or coloured , rigid or flexible, formulation of the compound is key to PVC's "added value".

Applications: Window frames, drainage pipe, water service pipe, medical devices, blood storage bags, cable and wire insulation, resilient flooring, roofing membranes, stationary, automotive interiors and seat coverings, fashion and footwear, packaging, cling film, credit cards, synthetic leather and other coated fabrics.

Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) and Other Specialist Styrenics

Properties: Rigid, opaque, glossy tough, good low temperature properties, good dimensional stability and easily electroplated, low creep.

Applications: Telephone handsets, rigid luggage, domestic appliance housings (food mixers), electroplated parts, radiator grills, handles and computer housings.

Polyacetals (POM)

Properties: Rigid, translucent, tough, spring-like qualities, good stress relaxation resistance, good wear and electrical properties, resistant to creep and organic solvents.

Applications: Business m/c parts, small pressure vessels, aerosol valves, coil formers, clock and watch parts, nuclear engineering components, plumbing systems, shoe components.

The first important plastic, celluloid, was discovered (c.1869) by the American inventor John W. Hyatt and manufactured by him in 1872; it is a mixture of cellulose nitrate, camphor, and alcohol and is thermoplastic. However, plastics did not come into modern industrial use until after the production (1909) of Bakelite by the American chemist L. H. Baekeland. Bakelite, made by the polymerization of phenol and formaldehyde, is thermosetting. New uses for plastics are continually being discovered. Following World War II optical lenses, artificial eyes, and dentures of acrylic plastics, splints that X rays may pierce, nylon fibers, machine gears, fabric coatings, wall surfacing, and plastic lamination were developed. More recently a hydrophilic, or water-attracting, plastic suitable for use in non-irritating contact lenses has been developed. Among the trade names by which many plastic products are widely known are Plexiglas, Lucite, Polaroid, Cellophane, Vinylite, and Koroseal. Plastics reinforced with fiberglass are used for boats, automobile bodies, furniture, and building panels.

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Computer simulation of plastic flow in an injection mould was first developed around 1980 and now includes: part warpage plastic analysis software plastic filling analysis plastic injection molding plastic injection moulding plastics plastics injection molding processing product development reference runner less molding shrinkage and warpage simulation software tool and die toolmaker and warp analysis