MEDANCO

Camera monitoring

Camera monitoring in the injection molding process is an effective way to ensure products are correctly produced and free from defects or mold damage.
Key benefits include:

1. Product quality assurance: By monitoring whether products are properly ejected with the rear mold, we ensure the process is under control, even for transparent products.
2. Mold damage prevention: Early detection of issues prevents mold damage, saving on costly repairs and avoiding delays.
3. Efficiency and reliability: Camera monitoring offers visual control, which is difficult to achieve with mechanical or sensor-based systems alone. The camera’s zoom capability allows for monitoring even the smallest details.

By using this technology, companies like Medanco can maintain high quality standards while working more efficiently and reducing costs.

Flat rings

Medanco produces flat rings in large quantities. We first create a hose and then cut it. The hose (or profile) must have sufficient strength, with the correct hardness (starting approximately 70 Shore A) and consistent wall thickness to prevent deformation and ensure perpendicularity. We use various precise cutting machines for this. In the example above, we produced 200,000 pieces with a cutting size of 2.0 +/- 0.2 mm. Higher precision is also possible, and 100% post-production inspection is feasible.
This method offers great flexibility in diameters, thickness, and material, while keeping the unit price low and tooling costs minimal. This production technique is ideal for mass production of custom-made flat rubber rings.

Customized cutting tooling developed

Medanco has developed a cutting table in collaboration with our toolmaker for the highly precise cutting of non-flat rubber sheets. This enables us to cut these sheets in a high-quality, efficient, ergonomic, and safe manner. With the special clamping system, the product is securely held in place and can be cut with minimal deformation. The clamping parts are interchangeable, allowing for any shape to be cut. We perform this process in a clean room environment.

High-tech project with 6 moulds

Recently, we successfully created 6 compression molds for a great project. With these molds, we can produce 11 different rubber products. The product combinations within the molds allowed for a reduced mold investment, despite the very precise tolerances required for the products. The first samples from the molds were immediately approved by the client. Creative thinking and embracing challenges lead to success. Production can now begin!

Engineering medical device

We have developed an innovative development plan for medical plastic products, fully in line with the Medical Device Regulation (MDR). We follow the ISO 13485 standard to ensure the highest quality and safety standards. Each product is precisely engineered, manufactured, and tested, with a strong focus on risk management from design to production. This plan enables us to excel in medical plastics technology, with reliability and compliance as its foundation.

Sometimes, rubber products are too large to fit multiple times in a mold plate. One option in such cases is to create a stack mold. Below is a short video of a product made this way at Medanco. The intermediate plate can be machine-operated, allowing both products to be easily removed after vulcanization. This effectively increases the mold capacity from 1 to 2, making the process twice as fast.

Renewed press machines

A lot is written about sustainability, and many actions are being taken, with each company working on it in its own way. Medanco is no exception. For example, we recently fully renovated our 50-ton presses. The machines are now essentially like new (or even better than new), complete with a new control system that is much smarter than before. This makes the machine more energy-efficient, allows for more precise press settings, and improves monitoring. Last but not least, the vast majority of the existing machine parts were reused. Now that's sustainability!

Rubber injection 32 cavities

Recently, the production capacity of a high-demand rubber product was expanded due to an increased need from our customer. A new 32-cavity rubber injection mold was created, and a new injection press was purchased. The high cavity count for an injection mold, while maintaining a compact size, allowed us to achieve this cost-efficiently. CTF dimensions with tolerances of +/- 0.05 mm! We are extremely proud that our engineering team was able to achieve this in collaboration with the toolmaker.

New rubber injection press

For one of our customers we co-developed a plastic product which is used as a window. Together with the customer, our toolmaker and material supplier we managed to engineer a perfect solution. The product is a 2K product. This means that 1 products consist of 2 materials. Because the volumes are relatively low the investment for 2K tooling was too high. We therefore choose an overmoulding concept. First, we mould the PC part in the first tool. We place this part in a second tool where we overmould it with TPE. The function of this TPE is a sealing. Challenge here is to produce both parts without damaging or deformation. 

Medanco has produced flexible tubes with an outside diameter of 0,9mm and an inside diameter of 0,4mm. For other applications, we are capable of producing extremely thin wall TPE tubing.