Product criticities
- The remarkable size of this product, and the reduced thickness causes the concrete risk of having appearance/dimensional anomalies due to filling issues.
- For the sake of assembling it to other components, the product has some fastening holes which, in general, are not parallel to each other. This creates important undercuts
- The product has ain important aesthetic function, and it also has to resist to UV light and atmospheric agents.
Solutions
- Great importance is reserved to product appearance, creating an attractive line. Two different types of surface finishing are used, making the product partially matte and partially mirror-glossy.
- In the design phase, the product shape is discussed in cooperation with the customer. Design for Manufacturing principles are then applied, in order to optimize the mould geometry.
- A careful mould-filling analysis is performed, with the aid of specific FEM software. In this way it the best type of injection is determined for this mould.
- We put in place our expertise to advise the customer the most suitable thermoplastic material for this application: it’s a special polymer, enriched with elements granting to the product an excellent resistance to UV and sun light.
