RTS Capabilities

Carclo Technical Plastics have established our Rapid Technology Systems (RTS) which manages the entire development process, taking concept through tool manufacturing, where we can offer the customer a range of rapid processes including:

• Design Service

Working with the customer either with onsite contracted design engineers or support for the customers design teams.

• SLA – Stereolithography

A Rapid prototyping process which produces a physical, three dimensional object, a “conceptual model” or“master pattern” with accuracy of 0.1%.

• SLS – Selective Laser Sintering

This process fuses together plastic powder by using a laser to trace a 2D slice onto the surface of a bed of powder, given functional prototypes in nylon or glass filled nylon without the need for tooling.

• Vacuum Casting

The manufacture of production quality parts is achievable by Vacuum Casting two parts polyurethane materials into silicone tooling to replicate from soft 30 shore a elastomeric materials, right through the range to replicate polyethenes, polypropylenes, ABS, Polycarbonate, nylon and glass filled nylon.

• Q-Drive Tooling

Modular tooling systems for lower volume production (up to 40,000 per annum) and bridge to production capability. Fully hardened cavities give greater life expectancy.

• Aluminum Tooling

Aluminum filled epoxy tooling, solution for the short prototype or production requiring an engineering thermoplastics including Carbon and glass filled materials.