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A K Industries Ltd

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A K Industries Ltd

Foxwood Court
Rotherwas Industrial Estate
Hereford
HR2 6JQ
United Kingdom

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A K Industries is a UK based company specialising in plastic injection moulding solutions since 1996. Originally part of a major US multi-national we became a privately owned company dedicated to providing the highest quality injection moulded products using state of the art moulding equipment and processes. Over the years we have developed a loyal customer base thanks to our high levels of customer satisfaction and our competitive pricing structure.

At A K Industries we offer a range of services and we work with our clients throughout the entire product manufacturing process. Our services include in-house design, prototyping and tooling, and we can offer recommendations on the most efficient injection moulding manufacturing processes to save our clients time and money. Depending on your requirements we can offer injection moulding, two shot injection moulding, medical moulding, miniature and micro injection moulding, and gas assisted moulding. We also offer insert moulding as well as our high temperature, high performance polymers and an extensive range of finishing processes.

A K Industries understands the importance of quality to our customers and we continually invest not only in our business assets but also in our employees. AKI has held the BS EN ISO 9001:2008 quality certificate since 2009 and we have implemented a range of processes to ensure continuous quality control. At A K Industries we have the in-depth experience, highly skilled workforce and the latest equipment to turn your product concepts into a reality, on time and on budget. Visit the A K Industries website to view our full range of plastic injection moulding services.

Injection Moulding

A K Industries are specialists in the production of injection moulded products to meet client specifications. We have in-depth experience in producing a wide range of injection moulded products to demanding specifications including combination demands such as specific aesthetic external finishes and close tolerances as well as polymers coloured to match specifications. AKI process all engineering polymers including polyesters, polysulphone, ABS and polycarbonate blends. Injection moulding offers a number of benefits including low unit costs and tolerance levels unavailable through alternative moulding processes.

Injection moulded products manufactured by our company include fan blades, speaker housings, shower components, aircraft components and laboratory products, to name just a few.

Two Shot Injection Moulding

Our two shot injection moulding process permits the production of complex mouldings from two different polymers during one machine cycle. Using two shot injection moulding means that mouldings can be created in more than one colour and in a combination of materials. The joins between the materials and coloured mouldings are of a higher strength when the second material is injected. Two shot injection moulding allows designers to create highly accurate, complex mouldings and this process offers reduced cycle times and improved bonding while reducing costs. For more information on our two shot injection moulding process please visit the A K Industries website.

Medical Moulding

A K Industries has over 15 years of experience in medical moulding processes and we have a long history of manufacturing Life Science products. We utilise a range of state of the art moulding machines with the capabilities to produce all sizes of mouldings including micro mouldings weighing less than one gramme. Our company has a leading role in European Funded research including a number of development projects in conjunction with PERA thanks to our innovative approach. Our medical moulding range includes injection moulded needle syringes and our Rapi-Heal project, a system for the treatment of open wounds.

Visit our website for details of our new product realisation and optimisation process, designed to get your medical mouldings into the market place faster.

Miniature and Micro Injection Moulding

Our company understands the importance and demand for high quality miniature and micro moulded products. Our micro moulding processes ensures the production of tiny and intricate parts to meet the demands of our clients. Thanks to the latest acquirement of a Babyplast machine we can now also offer the production of very small parts as part of our miniature and micro moulding services range. Benefits of our miniature and micro injection moulding include reduced part costs, increased parts accuracy, improved cycle times and a range of available colours. Please visit the A K Industries website for more information on our complete range of miniature and micro injection moulding services.

Gas Assisted Injection Moulding

Gas assisted injection moulding offers a number of benefits including reduced materials required and reduced cycle times. For the client this means improved component quality with the elimination of sink marks and an overall improved surface finish to the product. Gas assisted injection moulding also brings cost saving benefits as the enhanced surface finish and the reduction in weight means that material usage is reduced, leading to a reduction in production costs. Our injection moulding processes, including gas assisted moulding, means we can significantly reduce production delays, which means our clients can bring their products into the marketplace at a faster rate.

Insert Moulding

Insert moulding offers superior product strength via the perforated plastic or metal insert that is placed into the product during the moulding stage. This insertion can also be undertaken during the post moulding stage in order to ensure the improved moulding strength or to enhance product functionality. Insert moulding offers a number of benefits including reduced post moulding operations, increased part consistency and part functionality as well as a reduction in production time and ease of assembly. Please visit the A K Industries website for more information on our in mould insert moulding and post mould inserting processes.

High Temp, High Performance Polymers

Our high temperature, high performance polymers, such as our Grivory HT, offer a number of benefits during the injection moulding process. Grivory HT injection moulding offers superior dimensional stability even at high temperatures as well as a resistance to warping and unparalleled stiffness and strength at high temperatures. Grivory HT injection also offers excellent resistance to chemicals, an excellent surface quality and the superior stiffness and strength at high temperatures means it is an ideal alternative to metal. Grivory HT injection moulding is used for a number of applications within the automotive industry as well as frequently used in the plumbing and electronics industry.

Controlled Environment

Our clean rooms are a very important part of our finishing process and are used to ensure the production of high quality products by controlling the environment that products come in contact with. Clean rooms are used to control certain environmental factors such as humidity, temperature, particle matter and contamination, and are essential when producing products for industries such as the medical sector. The use of a clean room helps to prevent contaminants during the moulding process, which helps to reduce moulding scrap leading to a reduction in costs. Clean rooms mean we can manufacture products to the highest of quality standards easily and repeatedly.

Drilling, Polishing and Assembly

A K Industries offer a number of post moulding processes designed to be cost-effective for our customers as well as adding value to the products. We offer a drilling service to eliminate any extra materials in order to provide a ready to assemble product. Our post moulding polishing service is used to remove any dust and provide a high gloss finish. We can also undertake on site assembly of products either as a whole product or in a step by step operation as product parts are produced. Our drilling, polishing and assembly processes offer cost and time saving benefits to our customers as well helping to maintain the highest levels of product quality.

Heat Inserting

Inserting a metal or pre-formed plastic insert into a part during the post moulding process offers the benefits of increasing the functionality of a part as well as increasing the ease of component assembly. In some instances a plastic component may not have the strength needed in order to be screwed to another part and in if this is the case then brass threaded inserts can be heat inserted into the part for additional strength. Heat insertion ensures high levels of quality and the additional strengthening means parts will not warp or distort due to additional heating. For full details of our heat insertion processes please visit the A K Industries website.

Tampo Pad Printing

Tampo Pad Printing is a cost-effective method of providing colour printing onto finished components to give a particular visual appearance. A K Industries use 1,2 and 3 colour pad printers as well as our 5 colour CNC printing machine to achieve specific product printing to client specifications. Pad printing is a highly reliable process involving microprocessor controlled machines, leading to a very high quality print designed to improve component value at cost-effective prices. Our pad printing process can be undertaken on virtually any surface including chrome plated mouldings as well as printing on uneven surfaces with no drying time required between multi-colour printing.

Ultrasonic Welding

At A K Industries we are experts at utilising high-frequency acoustic vibrations to join two pieces of plastic together. This process is known as ultrasonic welding and no additional adhesives or connective parts are needed to join the plastics, which means a quicker joining process leading to cost and time saving benefits. Ultrasonic welding is used to weld together small components and this highly automated process creates extremely neat weld seams. A high level of quality is another benefit of this process; the elimination of human error due to automated processes leads to high accuracy and repeatability.

Why A K Industries?

There are a number of reasons why A K Industries has a well-established reputation and many long-term clients. We offer our customers a number of benefits including working with our clients throughout the entire fabrication process from product concept stage through to product delivery. We offer in-house design, product prototyping and complete tooling services. All of our services are undertaken in-house, which means we can be flexible when it comes to changes needed throughout the product manufacturing process. We also offer a number of additional services such as drilling, polishing and assembly that are designed to reduce costs as well as reduce delays in getting your product to the market stage.

Low Heat

A K Industries are involved in the development of a number of innovate projects such as the low grade heat exchanger developed for use in the domestic sector. Low grade heat exchange is a way to reuse/recycle heat energy from waste water used in domestic appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines and shower units. A low grade heat exchanger would recover 40% of the heat energy from these appliances in order to reduce the overall energy consumption in domestic homes by around 7%. This would result in a 1000kWh per home, per year saving or a saving of 10 billion kWh as a European total of a 6% target market. For more information of our low heat project please visit the A K Industries website.

Medi Voice

The Medi Voice is another product we are proud to be involved with as part of our innovative projects range. The Medi Voice is a high quality but low cost, environmentally friendly, pharmaceutical packaging technology product. This product is used to ensure that blind, illiterate and elderly patients take the right medicines at the right time through means of an audio device or ‘talking technology’. Medi Voice utilises a recorded voice system to prompt patients to take the correct quantity of prescribed drugs at the correct time. The Medi Voice was recently one of the major products exhibited at the Pera stand during the MDT exhibition in February.

Rapi Heal

A K Industries has been instrumental in the development of Rapi Heal, a cost effective, high performance product designed for the treatment of open wounds. Rapi Heal offers an affordable and effective solution when it comes to negative pressure closure treatment for chronic ulcers. This product can significantly improve the mobility of patients as well as improve their quality of life. Rapi Heal was developed in conjunction with Pera and more details of this product can be found on the Pera website. For more information on our range of innovative projects please visit the A K Industries website.

Project Management

Project management is a process we take seriously throughout range of business services we offer. Our long-term clients recognise that our business experience is beneficial when it comes to high quality products and cost-effective processes. By involving our company throughout the entire manufacturing process we can recommend the best processes to ensure high quality end results. Our experience in this field is vital when it comes to manufacturing new products and we can recommend the most suitable, cost-effective and time saving processes. Working with A K Industries means that our in-depth experience is at your disposal from design concept through to the finishing stage.

Design for Manufacture

As an independent company we will always offer impartial advice designed to provide our clients with the right moulding and tooling processes to meet their requirements and budget. Our experience means we understand the right moulding processes to improve functionality and reduce manufacturing costs. Our in-depth experience means that our clients benefit from a faster manufacturing process at a lower cost. Our long-term clients conduct business with our company due to benefit from high quality end results and our extensive knowledge of the injection moulding industry. By involving A K Industries from an early stage we can help minimise costs and reduce the time it takes to get your product into the market.

Prototyping

At A K Industries we accept design files from our clients for analysis using our CAD and 3D software. This data can be used to create rapid prototypes leading to mould tool design and CNC machine programming. Prototypes are the best way to assess for design faults and issues before manufacturing begins. This is a cost-effective way to ensure that products are manufactured without errors and also eliminates the need for costly and time consuming changes. Once full production has begun we can also evaluate costs to benefit our customers. Please contact A K Industries for more information on our cost-effective prototyping services.

Seamless Integration

At A K Industries we achieve seamless integration via a number of set processes. Our processes and objectives include a commitment to not only meeting but exceeding customer expectations. We offer single conduit communication for our customers throughout the entire working process as well as a new business/process induction co-ordinator from our company. We offer efficient and successful project management procedures with project team representation from all required departments. We will only ever set out project plans using realistic and agreed timescales and our team members understand their responsibilities and are accountable for their department actions.

New Product Realisation and Optimisation Process

Our new product realisation and optimisation process is designed to help our customers get their products to the market in rapid time. We assist our customers throughout the entire manufacturing process from the initial design concept stage through to final delivery. Our complete range of in-house services have been specifically designed to offer a comprehensive design, prototyping, manufacturing, tooling, finishing and printing process all under one roof. Our in-depth experience means that we can offer significant time and cost saving benefits to our customers as well as producing products of the highest quality. Please visit A K Industries website for more information on our new product realisation and optimisation process.

Dedicated Management

Our customers will receive a dedicated project manager who will be their contact person and who is responsible for the quality and delivery of projects. A dedicated project manager will be there throughout the entire process to ensure that projects undertaken meet agreed customer timescales. The use of a project manager also ensures that finished critical paths are adhered to and that components and products are of the highest achievable quality. Your project manager will also ensure that project consistency is maintained and that agreed budgets are not exceeded. Contact our team to discuss your injection moulding requirements by visiting the A K Industries website.

Concept Processes

As part of our complete new product realisation and optimisation (NPRO) process we can undertake a concept analysis and evaluation service. This will include analysing the customer, the market and includes idea generation. We will also analyse six macroevironmental factors for products including technological, political/legal, demographic, social/cultural, economic and natural factors. A K industries will analyse factors such as societal demand for a product, the development of products, customer requirements and concept generation. This is an in-depth process designed to understand and assess the feasibility and best process methods of a new product.

Rapid Prototype

Prototyping offers cost and time saving benefits for our customers and we offer two main types of prototype. Our comprehensive prototyping is a fully functioning and full sized product prototype while our focused prototype will not be fully functioning but is designed to examine specific product attributes. Prototypes are beneficial as they can cut production costs by up to 70% with virtual prototypes offering the best cost saving benefits. All of our prototypes use computer generated models and we offer SLA and the popular SLS prototyping. Prototyping is one of the best ways to catch product issues or errors before full scale production commences.

Validation Process

We use a validation process to ensure that finished components and products are as intended and this includes checking product characteristics against specific defined requirements. Finished parts will not be placed into full production until they meet specific validation standards and we will compare model data with real life data for validating parts. During the validation process specific types of comparison must be carried out and this can include simulation to real life comparisons. By using our validation processes we can ensure that finished results are as intended including the processes used to make the product or component.

Production Processes

A K Industries have implemented a number of production processes that are beneficial to our company and also to our customers. We utilise continued product optimisation and cost evaluation throughout the production process. We also optimise our production processes to ensure that if problems do arise in production we can then quickly assess the problem, which can lead to an improved process in the future. Tool modification and repairs are made when necessary and this is another major part of our production process. Our processes offer our customers a highly efficient service resulting in savings to our customers and these savings are continually evaluated to ensure that we can stay competitive.

Design Processes

At A K Industries we understand the importance of thoroughly assessed designs and we have implemented a number of processes to address design issues. We can assess and evaluate important design factors including aesthetics, ergonomics, function, manufacturability, servicing and disassembly. We can ensure that the best design routes are taken including the evaluation of factors such as ease of manufacture, customer needs, corporate identity and speed to market. Our use of computer aided design (CAS) software offers the benefits of enhanced and improved design as well as reducing the need for prototypes. Visit the A K Industries website to view full details of our new product realisation and optimisation services.

Quality Control

We take our responsibilities to quality control seriously and our production processes include a quality department with full quality control procedures. With quality control standards in place our customers can be assured of the highest levels of service from our company and our employees. A K Industries has held a BS EN ISO 9001:2008 quality certification since 2009 and we are also an ISO 13485 certified company, which is the quality management system standard for the medical industry. We offer 100% satisfaction for our customers in our processes and our customer service standards to ensure the best collaborative business experience.

Medical Devices Standards

A K Industries has a long history of producing medical mouldings and our company is an ISO 13485 certified company; the quality standard required for the medical industry. Our systems and processes in place to meet this standard include cleanliness, sterilization and contamination management, clinical evaluations and trials, and requirements for implantable devices. We also meet the standards for customer requirements, labelling and packaging controls, risk management and proper communication of advisory notes. Visit the A K Industries website to view full details of our quality standards certificates.

Contacting A K Industries

A K Industries is a UK company based in Rotherwas in Hereford. Our website contains details of our telephone and fax numbers as well as our email address. We have also included an online contact form and once received we will assess your enquiries and contact you via email or telephone. Our dedicated team will be more than happy to answer any questions on our range of injection moulded processes as well as providing pricing information.

Our Machinery

A K Industries believes in the continual investment in our plant machinery to ensure that we can offer the latest processes to our customers. We utilise an extensive range of machinery in a variety of sizes in order to handle any moulding requirements demanded by our customers. Our website contains full details of our current plant machinery as well as details of the maximum size of tool that can be fitted between the machine tie bars. Visit the A K Industries website to view our full list of plant machinery; the plant list website page is updated frequently.

Cost and Time Saving Processes

A K Industries has over 15 years of experience in the injection mouldings industry and our experience brings a number of benefits to our customers. We have the knowledge to ensure that the correct moulding procedures are used to suit your specific requirements. By knowing this business thoroughly we can offer cost and time saving benefits, which means our clients are able to obtain their high quality products quickly and get them out to their market quickly. Our company has developed many long-term business relationships with our customers thanks to our experience, range of moulding services and high quality finished products.

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Registration Number: 03121038
VAT Number: GB666 7028 11
Registered at Companies House:1 November, 1995 (29 years and 5 months ago)
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Monday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Tuesday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Wednesday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Thursday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Friday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
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