Technology
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IMTEC® is used for forming, particularly in injection moulding (here in-moulding technology). For the manufacture of hybrid parts with plastics and metal components, standard injection moulding machinery can be deployed with standard steel mould tools that are simply and very inexpensively modified to retain the metal fastening inserts during the moulding process.
The injection mould tool (usually steel) generally consists of several components, but only the core pins of the moulds have to be geometrically adapted to accommodate the IMTEC® moulded inserts to easily achieve great accuracy and repeatability.
The thread inserts are placed into the mould manually or by means of a handling system. Within the forming stage of their manufacturing process, the threaded IMTEC® inserts are sufficiently magnetised to be able to be securely placed on the mould tool's magnetic core pins.
In the next step, the mould is closed before the precisely controlled amount of the molten plastics material is injected into the cavities of the mould under high pressure and at high speed. Until the liquid core of the plastics material has cooled and fully solidified, the component remains in the mould. Once cool, the the component is ejected.
