Compression Moulding Presses

In present day demand of continuing search for reliable, lighter as well as cost-effective components by industries, markets and users, our engineers apply latest compression moulding techniques in these machines of composites to substitute metal components. These compression moulding presses are capable of effectively producing high amount of fiber-reinforced plastic parts with better speed and accuracy. Moreover, composites also produce components featuring thinner walls than their metal counterparts. This weight and cost reduction promotes development of :

• Long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics (LFRT)
• Sheet molding compounds (SMC)
• Bulk molding compounds (BMC)

Development Cycle:

• With composites beginning to replace automotive metals, new materials were typically adopted into part design previously optimized for steel
• Resulting parts were over-built in terms of performance properties, but reaped immediate benefits in terms of weight reduction
• With progress of development programs, parts were optimized for new materials
• Engineers redesigned these to minimize weight within scope of given part's specified performance demands
• With advent of LFRT and other reinforcement-intensive thermoset compounds, industries see opportunity to further adjust wall thickness as well as other part dimensions, not only in composites-for-metal changeovers but also in existing composite designs as well
• Longer fibers also double the impact strength and flexural modulus of comparable short-fiber compounds
• In thermoset applications, same results are achieved with greater percentage of fiber loading and use of high-performance fibers
• High-performance fibers and high loading adds strength and rigidity to composite components