Extrusion

Our service

MotionTouch offers a fully managed plastic extrusion service, based in the Far East and Eastern Europe, combined with local multilingual project management.

Benefits

Using offshore manufacturing partners offers significant benefits:

• High quality, cost effective service and faster production
• Many of our partner factories are certified to ISO9002 and combine state of the art machinery with highly experienced staff
• We can provide quotations from CAD/IGS drawings in 48hrs and support from our engineers during your design process

The process

Extrusion is a high volume process used to melt raw plastic material into a continuous form, such as pipe or tubing, plastic sheeting, adhesive tape or wire insulation.

Small beads of plastic (resin) are fed into the extruder.  The beads are simultaneously heated to melting point and forced forward, under intense pressure, by a rotating screw.

At the end of the extruder the molten plastic passes through a 'die', which gives the final product its form. Almost any shape can be produced as long as it is a continuous form.

The product is then cooled in a water bath - or in the case of sheeting, through cooling rollers.