B&C Plastics offers a comprehensive range of services to take your project from concept through to production.
Product design & development
We understand the creative process starts with a great idea, but is sometimes needs a hand taking the idea and turning it into a solid product. Through our decades of experience, we can help you to work through your "light bulb moment" to determine the viability of your idea and to create a project plan to take your idea to market. B&C Plastics can help you with product development, brainstorming meetings, project planning and risk analysis.
Concept sketches
Before you take your idea and move to formal design, it helps to have concept sketches developed to give structure to your ideas. B&C Plastics are experienced in working with you to create concept sketches that helps identify early problems and build stakeholder buy-in. The concept sketches we create are of sufficient quality to use in market testing, buyer meetings and licensing discussions.
Engineering Analysis & Development of Specifications
Converting concepts to cost effective manufactured products requires effective design engineering. B&C Plastics is experienced in ensuring the functional specifications for your product are efficient, effective, and practical. This means you end up with the ideal polymer for the use and environmental conditions, and the product is optimised to reduce unnecessary manufacturing costs.
You are left with details of material needs and target production costs, as well as a clear idea of production feasibility.
3D Solid Modelling software is used through every stage of the process to give you the best possible indicative model.
Component design
We convert concepts into compelling 3D drawings utilise the latest Solid Works 3D software in order to provide meaningful information to your team so any component design issues are identified and resolved before tooling begins. B&C Plastics has the expertise and experience through our Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to assist you with component design or refinement.
We can also provide design assistance to help you optimise your part design to improve quality and reduce unnecessary manufacturing cost.
Polymer & materials analysis
At B&C Plastics, we are proactive in keeping up to date with all the latest polymer technologies. There are quite literally thousands of different types of polymers to select from. We use and are fully conversant with an extensive range of polymers, supplying product to just about every industry you could imagine.
Toolmaking & Mould Making
We are the most experienced toolmakers in Australia since 1987. Our toolmaking department utilises CNC machines, EDM and a range of manual machines to produce High Quality Injection Mould Tools, Jigs, Fixtures and General Engineering projects using the latest 3D cadcam technology.
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Plastic Injection Moulding (Machines 25 - 370 Tonne)
At B&C Plastics, our injection-moulding department has an advanced knowledge of injection moulding, process control, trouble-shooting and polymer selection. We have a range of modern injection moulding machines with clamp force tonnage ranging from 25 to 370 tonnes, which means we can handle components from 1 gram up to 2kg in weight.
Our highly experienced and fully qualified team has the ability and the resources to deliver a high specification product maintaining critical tolerances.
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Ultrasonic Welding
Ultrasonic welding is a method of joining two parts by converting electrical energy into heat energy by high frequency mechanical vibration and is suitable for plastics and metals. Ultrasonic plastics welding has advantages over joining methods using solvents or adhesives including production cycle times are usually improved with speeds up to 2000 parts an hour.
Prototyping & Prototype testing
B&C plastics provide high quality functional and non-functional prototypes either from our own information or your CAD data.
Our capabilities include:
- Stereo lithography,
- Selective laser sintering,
- CNC machining,
- RTV machining,
- Tooling,
- Rapid prototyping.
We trial injection mould tools to provide you with off-tool samples of your product for design compliance testing and final approval. We also provide prototype-testing services to ensure the design compliance and quality of your products.
Trouble Shooting - Tooling & Moulding Faults
Sometimes tools or moulds don't perform as expected. B&C Plastics experienced technicians and engineers can trouble shoot tooling or moulding faults, and provide recommended solutions to get you quickly manufacturing again.
Tool Repairs & Maintenance
Well-maintained tools and moulds mean longer trouble free service. Our inbuilt maintenance program means at the end of each run we strip back the mould, clean it and prep it for the next run, before safely storing it. If problems are identified, we schedule appropriate repairs, which means your tools and moulds are always in tip-top condition.
Assembly, Labelling and Packaging
B&C Plastics offers component assembly, labelling, and packaging for all size businesses. We can handle everything from small niche product low volume runs, right the way through to high volume, commodity-style products. We can even handle bar-coding of items or packaging, which means we can provide you a one-stop shop from concept to manufacture.
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