Metal-to-Plastic Conversion
Simplify Your Components by Making the Switch from Metal to Plastic Parts and Save Costs in the Process
There’s no denying that metallic components play their part in various applications across numerous industries, but with cost-effectiveness always a driving point for customers and alternative solutions readily available, where metal parts once made sense may not anymore.
Metal-to-plastic conversion operations at Agape Plastics aim to simplify your and your customer’s operations by reengineering metal components into plastic injection molding parts offering improved service life, faster lead times, and better cost-effectiveness. Our dedicated team of plastic engineers work with your team to understand the reasons for moving from metal to plastic, what your part needs, and how plastic solutions offer better resiliency to the overall structure of your program.
With injection molding serving as a highly repeatable manufacturing process, what could take months for metal components could take only weeks with our processes. Learn more about our metal-to-plastic conversion operations below and contact Agape Plastics to learn how we can get the process started.
Why Agape’s Metal-to-Plastic Conversion Services?
Metal-to-plastic conversion operations take place when OEMs, Tier 1 supplier programs, and other customers come to Agape Plastics looking to make their overall projects lighter, cost-effective, and more easily repeatable.
Both our quality and plastic engineers work in tandem to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the original metal design, take that knowledge, and transform the original component into a plastic design that’s ready for the injection molding process. When metal to plastic engineering takes place, multiple considerations on material selection occur as the component has to elevate compared to its metal foundation.
Many of our injection molded programs replace where metallic components once existed. We have extensive manufacturing history and experience in the automotive, agriculture, and construction industries where metal parts are often thought of, but injection molded components are beginning to take over because of the program flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and how much lighter overall assemblies are because of plastic.
How Other Engineering Capabilities Combine
Metal-to-plastic conversion requires more arms of our engineering capabilities to truly transform your original product into a component that lasts longer and serves better in its intended environment.
One of the biggest assets to a metal to plastic operation is our complete program management capabilities. It offers your team a dedicated project engineer/program manager to take your part from concept to quoting, to building the injection molding tool, and then to mass production. Our highly skilled engineers are involved in developing prototypes, designing and building injection molding tools, vendor management, launch activities, implementing secondary operations, and more.
Another pivotal capability to pair with metal to plastic engineering is our value analysis value engineering (VAVE) operations. With an eye toward your best value on the bottom line, we use value analysis with existing products to analyze and evaluate to reduce costs, improve product function, or both. Value engineering ensures that during product development, we focus on reducing costs or improving function (or both) by way of product evaluation and analysis. This takes place before any capital is invested in tooling, raw materials, or equipment.
Backed by Quality Management
Every operation performed by Agape Plastics, from custom injection molding to metal-to-plastic conversion engineering and much more, is backed by our thorough quality management and control procedures.
Our QMS for metal-to-plastic engineering centers on our specialized quality engineers, who have plastics engineering backgrounds and utilize a systematic approach to problem solving to provide quick problem resolution. We have specialized technology in our facility that allows our engineers to break down the metal component to its simplest version and find polymer solutions that provide equal if not better qualities than the original material sourcing.
When the component has been fully converted, the design still adheres to our quality control and management capabilities where we utilize CMM management, SPC tracking, PPAP, and APQP.
Additionally, Agape Plastics holds two key QMS certifications: ISO 14001 and IATF 16949. These certifications demonstrate our ability to responsibly handle manufacturing operations with limited environmental impact and with our IATF certification, we are recognized as a reputable manufacturer for automotive components.
Contact Agape Plastic for Metal-to-Plastic Conversion Operations Today
Since 1973, Agape Plastics has provided high-quality custom injection molding operations for numerous OEMs, Tier 1 supplier programs, and other customers in need of ready-to-us injection molded components.
We work in multiple industries, and our customers know that their respective programs are going to create high-quality components and that starts with our injection mold tooling services.
Ready for Metal-to-Plastic Conversion?
Contact our team today for more information on our metal-to-plastic conversion operations and discover what a partnership with Agape Plastics can do for your products.