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Injection Moulding Design Feasibility: What Happens Before We Cut Metal?

A plastic part may look simple… they rarely are. When a customer sends an injection moulding enquiry to Dudley Associates, it can arrive in many different forms. Sometimes it is [...]

Injection Moulding vs Fabricated Plastic Parts: When Tooling Becomes the Smarter Commercial Decision

When does fabrication stop making commercial sense? Fabrication is sometimes the right place to start. For early prototypes, very low-volume parts, large flat panels or one-off assemblies, cutting, machining, bonding [...]

Getting Creative with Turnaround Sprues and Family Tooling

How Turnaround Sprues and Family Tooling Reduced 9 Injection Mould Tools to Just 3 For low-volume injection moulding projects, tooling costs can quickly become the biggest barrier to production. This [...]

A Fresh Approach to Manufacturing: How Dudley Associates Benefits from Being Part of Uncomplicated Group

“The Flexibility of a Specialist Moulder. The Resilience of a Larger Manufacturing Group” The Plastic Injection Moulding sector has always faced change. Today, however, that change feels faster than ever. [...]

“I’ve Got a Product Design That Needs Moulding… Now What?”

A Practical Guide to Turning an Idea into a Manufactured Injection Moulded Product You might have a CAD model. You may have refined the geometry. You might even have a [...]

Looking For an Aerospace and Defence Manufacturing Partner?

The aerospace and defence sector demands precision, compliance, traceability, and absolute manufacturing consistency. As global demand for defence manufacturing and aerospace engineering capability continues to grow, OEMs and Tier suppliers [...]

Our Flagship Video is Coming. The Bloopers Reel Might Beat It.

We spent a day in front of the camera with the brilliant team at VRO Creative. The result? A flagship video that will (we promise) look very professional indeed. Eventually. [...]

How Do You Choose the Right Material for a Plastic Injection Moulded Component?

When it comes to plastic injection moulding, material selection is one of the earliest—and most critical—engineering decisions in the entire product development process. Choosing the right polymer is about far [...]

“Soft Tooling”? Not Quite.

“Soft tooling” is one of those terms that sounds straightforward… until you look a little closer. Depending on who you ask, it can mean anything from a quick prototype tool [...]

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