Vacuum Casting Produce Complex Plastic Part Telecommunications Equipment Nylon and PET

Vacuum Casting Produce Complex Plastic Part Telecommunications Equipment Nylon and PET

Product Description:

Telecommunications equipment requires high-precision plastic components that can withstand the demands of constant use and environmental stress. Vacuum casting provides an excellent solution for manufacturing complex plastic parts for telecommunications equipment, such as connectors, housing units, and cable management components. Materials like Nylon (PA6, PA66) and PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) are commonly chosen for their mechanical strength, dimensional stability, and resistance to high temperatures and chemicals.

Nylon, particularly PA66, is highly favored for its strength, wear resistance, and ability to perform in high-stress environments, making it ideal for telecommunications equipment components that require excellent durability and long-term performance. Nylon’s high resistance to abrasion and its ability to maintain strength under repeated loading make it suitable for parts like connectors, housings, and cable tie components. PET, known for its excellent tensile strength and resistance to chemicals, is often used in parts like enclosures, covers, and structural components that need to protect sensitive electronic circuits in telecommunications devices.

Vacuum casting enables manufacturers to create intricate, high-quality plastic parts for telecommunications equipment quickly and cost-effectively. The process involves creating a master model, often a 3D-printed prototype or an existing part, and using it to create a silicone mold. Liquid Nylon or PET resin is injected into the mold under vacuum pressure, ensuring that the resin fills all cavities and creates parts with excellent surface quality and precise dimensions.

The benefits of vacuum casting for telecommunications equipment include rapid prototyping, the ability to produce complex geometries, and the cost-effectiveness of low-volume production. Manufacturers can quickly produce prototypes of connectors, enclosures, and other key components for testing and iteration, ensuring that the final product meets stringent performance and durability requirements. Additionally, vacuum casting provides the flexibility to produce small quantities of parts for custom or specialized applications, making it an ideal solution for telecommunications companies that require precision components for their products.

Applications of vacuum casting
Vacuum casting is one of the most cost-effective ways to produce high quality, low volume plastic parts which can be similar to injection moulding parts

The parts are especially suitable for form, fit and function tests during the embodiment design stages, where they can be used for marketing, field user testing and product design verification purposes

There are many Urethane casting resins commercially available that can be used to create parts to satisfy a wide range of design requirements such as temperature requirements, different surface textures, hardness, etc.

Materials are also available to create parts that are fully opaque, translucent or completely transparent

Sometimes high-quality wax masters can be made using vacuum casting for investment casting to increase the finer details of intricate features

Typical technical specification

Polyurethane (PU), the full name of polyurethane, is a polymer material formed by polyol and polyisocyanate through polycondensation reaction with excellent mechanical properties

[1], which is extremely plastic. Its synthesis can be traced back to 1937, when Professor Byaer first synthesised straight-chain linear polyurethane resins using 1,6-hexanediisocyanate and 1,4-butanediol as raw materials

[2]. Several major classifications of polyurethanes include polyether-type, polyester-type, polyimide-type, and polyurea-type, etc. They can be made into materials such as polyurethane plastics (mainly foams), polyurethane fibres (known as spandex in China), polyurethane rubbers and elastomers

[3].After nearly eighty years of technological development, this material has a wide range of applications involving products such as coatings, adhesives, fabric finishes, leather modifiers, polyurethane soft/rigid foam, elastomers, etc., which are used in the fields of textiles, construction, aviation, shipping, transportation, medicine, electronics, and so on.

Flexible polyurethane mainly has a linear structure with thermoplasticity, which has better stability, chemical resistance, resilience and mechanical properties than PVC foams, with less compression variability. Heat insulation, sound insulation, shock resistance, anti-virus performance is good. Therefore, it is used as packaging, sound insulation and filtration materials. Rigid polyurethane plastic is lightweight, sound insulation, superior thermal insulation performance, chemical resistance, good electrical properties, easy processing, low water absorption. It is mainly used in construction, automotive, aviation industry, thermal insulation structure materials. Polyurethane elastomer performance between plastic and rubber, oil resistance, abrasion resistance, low temperature resistance, aging resistance, high hardness, elasticity. It is mainly used in the shoe industry and the medical industry. Polyurethane can also make adhesives, coatings, synthetic leather, etc.

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Hunan Jiashan Hardware Tech as a branch company of J AND R METALWORK,established in 2007 and located in Changsha, Hunan, China.After almost 17 years management development and technical improvement, Jiashan is willing to be a leading supplier in hardware industry. Meanwhile, we are one of member of Hardware industrial Association and Green energy industry Association.

Jiashan is specialized in milling,turning,lathe 5 axis cnc machining parts,injection molding parts,alumium extrusion parts,laser cutting parts,sheet metal fabrication parts,wire edm parts,vacuum casting parts and fasteners.Those parts are widely service for electric vehicle,solar system,wind power system and construction machinery industry.

During17 years domestic and abroad market investigation, Jiashan's products are sold to many countries and regions including the North America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and Asia. With owned the advanced cnc machinee, milling machine, polishing machine, stamping machine etc. Jiashan is able to degsin and produce varies OEM parts with drawings or samples provided. Further more, Jiashan also can help to provide a whole solution for modularity R&D of electric vehicle and solar system .

By constantly strengthening our management and consummate the quality guarantee system.In 2023, Jiashan acquired ISO9001:2008 quality certification. Currently,the 5S management mode is implemented in the whole Jiashan system.

Best quality and best service is and will be always our toppest concern.