Our service

MotionTouch offers a fully managed resin moulding 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

Resin moulding (RTM) is a low pressure moulding process, where a mixed resin and catalyst are injected into a closed mould containing a fibre pack or preform.

When the resin has cured the mould can be opened and the finished component removed.

A wide range of resin systems can be used including polyester, vinylester, epoxy, phenolic and methyl methacylates etc, combined with pigments and fillers including aluminium trihydrates and calcium carbonates if required.

The fibre pack can be either, glass, carbon, arimid, or a combination of these. There are a large variety of weights and styles commonly available.

Benefits of RTM

• Tooling costs comparatively low compared to other processes
• Uses only low pressure injection
• Mouldings can be manufactured to precise dimensional tolerances
• Components have good surface finish both sides
• Ability to mould complex structural and hollow shapes
• Low volatile emission during processing
• Ability to produce near net shape mouldings, reducing wastage
• Process can be automated - higher production rates, less scrap
• Uniformity of thickness and fibre loading, resulting in uniform shrinkage
• Inserts may be incorporated into mouldings
• Ability to achieve 0.5mm to 90mm laminate thickness