Thornflex Plastics

Welcome to Thornflex Plastics

Thornflex Plastics is the result of over 40 years experience, combining tool-making, product engineering, and technology skills in the plastic & rubber injection mouldings industry.

With a long history of making ideas a reality, from pure concept through to market ready finished products. Thornflex has the necessary skills and secondary services to provide a complete turn-key solution to a client's varied and exacting standards.

Our moulding shop boasts a range of sizes and capabilities, producing an array of products that are used every-day; whether it is as you drive to work, use a mobile phone or enjoying a weekend of leisure.

One of the reasons for Thornflex’s longevity is our ethos of applying big business best practice with small business customer care. Therefore, we pride ourselves on being responsive to customer needs and can adapt to changing production requirements within a matter of hours. As we say; “Small enough to care, but large enough to cope”.

Give us a call today! We would be happy to discuss our services in more detail and provide a no obligation quote on any new or existing project you may have, in full confidence.

Services

From the enquiry stage through to the supply of repeat orders, we can offer a number of services to ensure we provide our customers with what is required every step of the way. They are: -

Plastic Injection Moulding
Thornflex’s moulding shop boasts a range of sizes and capabilities, producing an array of products that are used every-day. Our plastic injection moulding shop can mould from a shot weight of 0.1 grams up to 0.75 kilograms, from single impression to multiple hot runner cavities and insert moulding. Our specialist machine setters and tool makers have extensive industry knowledge of operating at the highest level.

To compliment our injection moulding services we have an online assembly area where a range of secondary services can be carried out:

• Drilling
• Laser Marking
• Assembly, Testing and Kitting
• Pad Printing
• Polishing
• Chrome Plating
• Trimming
• Internal Inserts
• Labelling

JIT and Kanban
As part of our integrated supply chain offering, we can provide a Just-In-Time and managed Kanban delivery service. Ensuring your stock control is managed to requirements.

Delivery & Packaging
We operate our own transport, enabling us to be flexible and respond rapidly to our customers’ requirements, meaning you can receive your goods when and where you want them. Once your desired product is completed to the standard you require we can supply you product in bar coded boxes or bags, we can even brand the packaging so the product is ready to place at the point of sale.

Solutions

With a long history of making ideas a reality, from pure concept through to market ready finished products. Thornflex has the necessary skills and secondary services to provide complete turn-key solution to a client’s varied and exacting standards.

As part of that solution we can provide the following capabilities: -

Product Design + Prototyping – using 3D solid and surface modelling we can swiftly work with enquirers on the product design. Rapid prototype samples can be supplied.

Project Management
We can manage or assist in as much or as little of a project as required. We can, if necessary, manage the product design, gain any necessary patents, design and manufacture the tool, and consult on material selection.

Tooling
We can offer design and manufacture of a complete suite of tools. Modifications and repairs to existing tools, either in-house or through our specialist partners.

Materials
Thornflex can help you meet the material requirements placed on your designs by offering advice on material selection.

There is a vast range of materials available to suit most applications. Environmental factors such as exposure to chemicals, extreme temperatures and UV, as well as the physical requirements such as strength and impact resistance, can influence the selection. Our vast experience and knowledge in moulding a wide variety of different engineering polymers, is available to assist in the selection of the correct polymer material for the application.

Any level of finish can be achieved, whether gloss, matt or coloured. In fact, many materials can be coloured using either standard or bespoke colour match additives.

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