One of the more frequent services we are asked about is overmolding or two shot molding. Seems people are of the opinion it doesn’t work for smaller volume programs. That sentiment is based in the thought that it requires expensive tooling and specialized presses to overmold a plastic over a base metal or another plastic.
PlastiCert is a small and medium volume molder, and we do a significant amount of overmolding. We do it with the conventional presses we have and work the tooling issue to keep capital expenditures down using the two shot method.
We overmold metals, plastics, and wires.
A custom connector in nylon
A shaft and magnet overmolded in a chemical resistant HDPE
Two overmolds in one – A shaft and dual magnet carrier that is then overmolded with the vanes in PPO.
A nylon custom connector
A custom feed through connector
We apply a covering of flexible gasketing material over hard plastics.
C-Flex application
A custom insert molded connector with another C-Flex application
We overmold similar plastics that offer different properties to allow your products to meet all your customers’ needs.
A nylon overmolded with a glass filled PP (they said we couldn’t do it).
If you have been scared away from designing in overmolded parts or had to modify your designs to incorporate less than perfect off-the-shelf solutions, give us a call.