After heavy investment in new equipment and experienced personnel, Hepworth Group has launched a new Mouldings Division, offering in-house RIM Moulding to compliment their already extensive range of manufacturing services.

As many of Hepworth’s current customers have both resin and metalwork requirements, especially low volume and prototype work, the RIM Moulding facility now enables the company to offer an even broader range of services; the company has RIM orders already placed from within the Leisure, Automotive and Motorsport sectors.

A flexible, cost efficient process for manufacturing polyurethane resin (PU) products, Reaction Injection Moulding (RIM) allows the use of soft tooling, giving a significantly cheaper alternative to conventional injection moulding. The thickness of parts can be increased, with wall thicknesses of up to 25mm. RIM moulding can produce very large parts, up to 2000mm x 1000mm x1000mm in a wide range of materials including high impact, high temperature resistant and V0 rated (fire retardant) resins.

There are many advantages and benefits that RIM Moulding gives over injection moulding processes, which include:

• Short runs a speciality – from 1 to 1000 off 
• Typical turnaround times of 2-3 weeks
• A wide range of rigid, semi-rigid, flexible, high impact and high temperature resistant resins
• The ability to produce dimensionally accurate mouldings and castings
• Product sizes varying from a matchbox weighing just a few grams, to a product the size of a car bumper weighing up to 15 kilos.
• Low cost, easily modified tooling gives value for money compared to conventional injection moulding tooling; roughly a tenth of the cost in most cases!

1st tier suppliers to the Marine, Rail and Automotive industries with accreditations including IRIS2, ISO-9001:2008 and EN15085, Hepworth Group’s comprehensive in-house facilities already offer manufacturing services in a wide range of metals and forms. Products include heavy-duty brackets, space frames, enclosures and control box housings, precision engineered, mirror polished super yacht deck fittings, plus aftermarket automotive accessories and prototypes including grilles and hinges. The company possesses a wide variety of in-house skills and services, enabling them to achieve seemingly impossible client deadlines but still at competitive prices.

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For further information please contact:

Hepworth RIM Moulding, 4 Merse Road, North Moons Moat, Redditch B98 9HL

Tel: 01527 61243

moulding@b-hepworth.com www. hepworthmouldings.co.uk

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