Expertise Established in 1992, Advanced Plastics is managed by its owner directors. The company’s all graduate engineering staff encompass a great depth and differing range of expertise, experience and specialisation brought from a diverse range of industries. Drawing upon these skills, APC engineers work closely with the customer design team from initial concept to volume manufacture, so that component and tool price can be minimised and the component optimised. Design advice is given including material selection and finite element stress analysis to optimise the load bearing capability of a part. Advanced Plastics ethos is to help the customer develop the most effective solution and can demonstrate truly innovative applications of plastics. Innovation As well as offering cost effective, high quality technical trade moulding toa variety of industries, Advanced Plastic’s specialities include: Metal Replacement with plastics. This is the replacementof such as pressed, welded, fabricated parts, die castings, castings, and sinteredcomponents withhigh performance plastics. Typical of this is the range of automotive pedal carrier brackets, clutch andthrottle pedals which the company makes with end use in Jaguar, Ford and Rovervehicles. Demanding structural applications can be engineered with confidence using APC’stechnology. Wear resisting applications of plastics includesuch as bearings, bushes, thrust washer and conveyor parts, gear box, vanes,pump and hydraulic parts. Precision and multicavity parts: Advanced Plastics has very extensive experience in this field. The company operatesmany multi impression , hot runner tools , producing precision engineered components. General Trade moulding: This is the bulk of the companies output and includes many simple componentsin materials such as Acetals, Nylons, Polypropylenes and ABS. Bulk purchasingof materials ensures competitive prices. The company moulds a wide variety ofengineering materials, including exotic high temperature polymers and also Verton,the long fibre reinforced Nylon & PP.