What Plastics are used for Plastic Injection Moulding?
What Plastics are used for Plastic Injection Moulding? There are more than 85,000 commercial plastic materials and 45 polymer series available for injection moulding. Among them, polymers can be roughly divided into two categories: thermosetting plastics and thermoplastics. The most used plastic types are high-density polyethene (HDPE) and low-density polyethene (LDPE). Polyethene has […]
Everything You Need To Know About Plastic Injection Moulding
Injection Moulding is a manufacturing process for producing plastic parts in small, medium or large volume. It is most typically used in mass-production processes where the same part is being created hundreds, thousands or even millions of times in succession. Why You Might Want to Use Injection Moulding One of the main advantages of plastic injection moulding […]
Specialist Toolmaking and Injection Moulding Services
A little bit more about our Injection Moulding services: Dudley Associates manufacture a very wide range of both development and production mouldings for the medical, defence, aerospace, electronics, automotive, bio-tech and private sectors, and we fully understand the discreet requirements associated with each Industry. We work on a daily basis with a very broad range of […]
Injection Moulding & Toolmaking – A Little Bit More About Us
A Little Bit About Us… Dudley Associates, an owner managed business since 2014 and founded in 1991, has gone from strength to strength. In 2016, an additional adjoining building was taken on to house the new, state of the art high-precision, high speed CNC production cell with full automation. Over the past decade, the company […]
Dudley Associates A ‘One-Stop-Shop’ For Your Plastic Injection Moulding & Toolmaking Requirements
Let’s talk about ‘Why Us?’ We are an owner-managed business with the owners actively involved on a day-to-day basis. With over 30 years’ of experience, Dudley Associates can meet all of your precision mould tooling and plastic injection moulding needs. We provide an all-encompassing service that satisfies all requirements. We have tremendous client retention and […]
Throwback Thursday ⏮ Plastic Injection Moulding & Tooling in the Marine Industry
Throwback Thursday ⏮ Back in 2008, our partnership with Native Oyster Network began when we were asked to design and develop a cage capable of restricting, or inhibiting, bacteria and barnacle growth. So we got to work! Specifically, we were asked to develop a plastic that had hydrophobic properties so that when the tide went […]
About Our Product Design & Development Services – Toolmaking and Plastic Injection Moulding
Dudley Associates has worked on a large number of successful high profile design projects and our clients include some of the best product design companies in the UK as well as a number of Universities. We have worked on design projects as varied as Mercedes, ING F1, NatWest and Motorhead! We have also worked with […]
Environmental Initiatives for a Better Future – #GenerationRestoration
Environmental Initiatives to make Dudley Associates a more environmentally friendly place to be. As a company that manufactures plastic parts, we are only too aware of our impact on the environment. Plastic is everywhere. No doubt that where you are sat or stood reading this article, you will have plastic parts and devices in eyesight. […]
Dudley Associates Welcomes a New Member to the Team
Welcome to the Team March at Dudley Associates was a busy one. With several new customers, ongoing projects and a new member of staff welcomed into the fold. Since the promotion of our (previously) injection moulding technician, Brett, to production manager, his role within the company needed to be replaced. On top of this, with […]
Mental Health Awareness Week
“Nature is so central to our psychological and emotional health, that it’s almost impossible to realise good mental health for all without a greater connection to the natural world.” MentalHealth.org So what is Mental Health? Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps […]
Made in Britain, with a Hands on Team Approach
At Dudley Associates, we have all facilities in-house, on-site here in the UK. We are proud to be British Manufacturers of Plastic Injection Moulding and Tooling and being able to supply the highest quality plastic parts to our customers. Other than the above, there are many reasons why we are proud to be British made, […]
Plastic Injection Moulding in the Construction Industry
Durability, Reliability, and an Abundance of Uses. The Construction Industry is one of the largest industries that relies heavily on plastic injection moulded parts, which may take you by surprise. When thinking of this industry in a manufacturing sense, materials such as wood and metal may more commonly be thought of – wall construction, equipment, […]
Dudley Associates Appoints A New Production Manager: A Wealth of Experience And a Future of Growth
Dudley Associates appoints a new Production Manager. Our ever busy mouldshop is a demanding place to be. Machines that can run for 24 hours a day, continuously moulding. Our current production manager Paul Magee has very sadly decided to leave the business, after 14 years of commitment and hard work, working with our Plastic Injection […]
Dudley Associates Facilities for High Quality Precision Tooling
Our Toolrooms: Up until Dudley Associates Management takeover in 2014, we were based out of one unit. Our design and prototyping departments, Tooling equipment, plastic injection moulding machines, secondary services, quality department and offices were all based in Unit 3, Elizabethan Way. Fast forward 7 years and we have expanded across 2 further units, tripling […]
Dudley Associates Achieves Renewal of ISO9001:2015 Accreditation
Dudley Associates passes latest ISO9001:2015 audit. Audit, Audit, Audit…. Audits are pretty much second nature to us now, with our regular quality audits to our new Covid risk assessments, our Quality and Health and Safety teams are experts in this area. Not only are they experts, we all are! The responsibility is on each member […]
