Life in Plastics Maintenance

Life as a Press Shop Maintenance Technician

Part of our Press Shop, Plastics is where we use state-of-the-art injection moulding machines to create bumpers from raw materials. This area requires a team of 10 highly skilled specialist Maintenance Technicians to ensure each stage of the process can continue running as efficiently as possible.

Our Process in Plastics

Material feed

Plastic granules are stored in silos before feeding drying machines when needed

A vacuum system transports the granules to machine hoppers

Injection moulding machines

Plastic is passed through a heated barrel where it becomes molten

It is then injected into a die mould

Formed bumpers are removed using a robot

Part transfer to next process

The moulded bumper is fed to a loading station and into a stillage

Stillage is transported to a loading lane and onto Paint Shop

Key facts

6 injection machines

New IMM 5 & 6 end of line robot cell installed in 2022

2 overhead cranes

Key skills in Plastics Maintenance

PLC control (Mitsubishi, Omron & Allen Bradley)
Robotics (FANUC & Sepro)
Inverter drives & control (Baumuller, Siemens, Mitsubishi, FANUC CNC, Omron)
Conveyor drives (mechanical)
Safety systems (PILZ & SICK)
Vision systems (CC link, EtherCAT & Ethernet)
Hydraulic systems

Our facilities in Plastics Maintenance

1 x Engel injection moulding machine
1 x Ube injection moulding machine

4 x Krauss injection moulding machines

1 x material shredder & granulator

2 Demag overhead cranes

Summit material drying system

Material feed system

2 x FANUC robot cells

Conveyor system

Water cooling systems

Bumper punch machines

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