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.

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A plastic is made up principally of a binder together with plasticizers, fillers, pigments, and other additives. The binder gives a plastic its main characteristics and usually its name. Thus, polyvinyl chloride is both the name of a binder and the name of a plastic into which it is made. Binders may be natural materials, e.g., cellulose derivatives, casein, or milk protein, but are more commonly synthetic resins. In either case, the binder materials consist of very long chainlike molecules called polymers. Cellulose derivatives are made from cellulose, a naturally occurring polymer; casein is also a naturally occurring polymer. Synthetic resins are polymerized, or built up, from small simple molecules called monomers. Plasticizers are added to a binder to increase flexibility and toughness. Fillers are added to improve particular properties, e.g., hardness or resistance to shock. Pigments are used to impart various colors. Virtually any desired color or shape and many combinations of the properties of hardness, durability, elasticity, and resistance to heat, cold, and acid can be obtained in a plastic.

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Common generic polymer names include: ABS, ABS GPS HIPS SAN ASA SBS PC PMMA PES PSU PUR FPVC RPVC PP PPO HDPE LDPE PA6 PA66 PA11 PA12 PBT PET POM POM PPS Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Plating High Heat Polystyrene High Impact Polystyrene Styrene Acrylonitrile Acrylate Styrene Acrylonitrile Styrene Butadiene Polycarbonate Polymethyl Methacrylate Acrylic Polyethersulfone Polysulfone Polyurethane Flexible Polyvinyl Chloride Rigid polyvinyl Chloride Polypropylene Polyphenylene Oxide High Density Polyethlene Low Density Polyethlene Nylon 6 Nylon 66 Nylon 11 Nylon 12 Polybutylene Terephthalate Polyethylene Terephthalate Polyoxymethylene Homo Polyoxymethylene Copolymer Polyphenylene Sulphide

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.

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.

Polymeth-ylpentene (PMP)

Properties: Rigid, tough, lightweight (density 0.83 gm/cm), chemical resistant, additives are required for outdoor use, highly permeable to gases, transparent crystalline material.

Applications: Medical ware, syringes, lamp covers, (good heat resistance), radar applications, encapsulation, microwave food packaging.

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