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.

After plastic design elements and cost elements have been considered, it's time to get the plastic molded. This step is done entirely on the part of production team. After all, Imtech Design is not a consulting or design firm solely, but also a trouble shooter and analyses technician. The steps of the molded plastics production process are carefully planned and adhere to industry certification standards. In addition, customers get the benefit of experienced plastics engineers working on their component part. The plastic is cooled and packaged after molding.

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Nylons (Polymides - PA)

Properties: The majority of nylons tends to be semi-crystalline and are generally very tough materials with good thermal and chemical resistance. The different types give a wide range of properties with specific gravity, melting point and moisture content tending to reduce as the nylon number increases.

Applications: Nylon fibres are used in textiles, fishing line and carpets. Nylon films is used for food packaging, offering toughness and low gas permeability, and coupled with its temperature resistance, for boil-in-the-bag food packaging.

Polycarbonate (PC)

Properties: Polycarbonates are strong, stiff, hard, tough, transparent engineering thermoplastics that can maintain rigidity up to 140oC and toughness down to -20°C or special grades even lower.

Applications: In recent years Polycarbonate blends have become increasingly commercially important. PC is widely used in blends due to its excellent compatibility with a range of polymers.

Typical Applications include: Electronic and business equipment (computer parts, connectors, etc.), appliances (food processors, refrigerator drawers, etc.), transportation (head lights, tail lights, instrument panels, etc.).

Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA)

Properties: Flexible (rubbery), transparent, good low temperature flexibility (-70'C), good chemical resistance, high friction coefficient.

Applications: Teats, handle grips, flexible tubing, record turntable mats, beer tubing, vacuum, cleaner hosing.

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