The intelligent combination: metal deep drawing and plastic injection moulding
When two production processes are brought together and specific expertise is pooled, highly complex system solutions can be created. We combine metal deep drawing and plastic injection moulding to produce integrated composite parts for the automotive, electronics and cosmetics industries. Precise moulding of the deep-drawn metal system components opens up totally new possibilities and a considerably wider range of functions. The specific properties of each material are used to do a particular job. The result of this forward-looking combination is innovative system solutions and specific applications for our customers at a very high-tech level.

Crossing frontiers together
The advantages are obvious: this combination permits system solutions that were scarcely conceivable until now. And that’s not all: in comparison with solutions using assembled individual parts, our metal/plastic composite hybrid parts offer impressively lower manufacturing and investment costs as well as requiring less assembly. Whether process chaining or fully integrated manufacture with ready-made parts: sophisticated products, assemblies and systems can be made more easily and more efficiently this way. Hybrid parts do away with whole operations or complete components as well as costly connections, because fully developed, integrated processes simply replace them.

Convincingly good properties
It’s the application that decides whether plastic or metal will play the main role in a product: metal deep drawing is the ideal technology where the requirement is for high output with low material consumption. A range of shapes, materials and surfaces can be achieved with this process. The metal material gives the system components high mechanical strength and dynamic stability. Deep-drawn parts are conductive as well as stable in heat and at high temperatures.

If, on the other hand, the aim is effective damping, sealing or providing sound, temperature, electrical or electrostatic insulation, then plastic is the material of choice. Moreover, plastic often has excellent sliding properties, can be coloured as desired and can be connected in various wa using hinge, catch or snap-action parts.

Summing-up
Plastic injection moulding and metal deep drawing: twoprocesses which lend themselves to a wide variety of design options. But combine them and the two materials complement each other to open up a new approach that pushes back the frontiers.

So, have we aroused your interest in metal/plastic hybrid parts? Then get in touch with us. We will be pleased to develop your specific solution together with you.