Services
Injection Molding
In the application of the black part, our customer requires durable threads they can place a warranty on. We designed a custom-produced threaded brass insert that we place into the mold prior to injecting the plastic resin. This application results in stronger threads that will not separate from the part.
Injection Molding
Our main area of expertise is injection molding, including insert molding and over molding. We welcome the opportunity to provide you with a quote for producing parts that are currently being molded on existing tooling elsewhere. What better way to ensure that your parts are being competitively molded.
Injection Molding
A second application also requires durable threads. These threaded brass inserts are placed in the mold prior to plastic resin injection.
Product Design
Tool Design and Construction
Our 30 plus years of experience in the injection molding industry has provided the Foxboro team with the knowledge to effectively design plastic components. We work closely with many of our customers’ engineering departments to design parts that will both optimize performance and minimize the tooling dollars required to produce the parts.
We routinely assist our customers in the conversion of their components from metals, including aluminum, steel, brass and stainless steel into plastics. Over the past 30 plus years this has proven to be a major cost savings to our customers.
Material Selection
Tool Design and Construction
Tool Design and Construction
A key factor in part design is material selection. Through our many contacts in the plastic compounding industry, Foxboro can suggest materials that will ensure high quality and cost effectiveness. These contacts also allow us the opportunity to provide uniquely formulated materials to best match the application. Foxboro has a computer- operated weigh scale blender in-house that allows us to transform standard resins into custom blended materials to fit the unique application of each part.
Our weigh scale blender also allows Foxboro to purchase materials in their natural color and add in precise amounts of color concentrates to create custom colors for our customers. The use of the computer-controlled blending system allows us to ensure a high degree of accuracy in the formulation of the custom material from one production run to another.
Foxboro is proficient in processing several material types such as Plyethylene, Polypropylene, Polystyrene, ABS, Nylon, PBT, TPE, PSU as well as Flame Retardant or Glass Reinforced resins.
Tool Design and Construction
Tool Design and Construction
Tool Design and Construction
Tool design and construction are not only crucial to the performance of plastic parts, but it’s also critical to achieving efficiency in production. When the need arises, we have external connections to outsource tool construction both domestically and internationally. In addition, Foxboro has an in-house machine shop that allows us to perform maintenance or small repairs to molds and tooling.
Value Added Operations
2 “U-nut” style thread keepers are installed in specified locations after molding. An identifying label containing the customer’s SKU number & barcode are affixed to the finished part. This allows the product to be scanned and quickly identified on the assembly line.
Value Added Operations
Beyond parts production, Foxboro has the capability to assist our customers in preparing their molded components for use in assembly lines or custom designed work cells. Foxboro has in-house labeling software with barcoding capabilities. Whether it is the simple installation of a keeper nut, identification label or a more complex operation, Foxboro can help. These activities aid our customers in speeding up their assembly line performance and part identification.
Secondary Operations
In conjunction with value added operations, other secondary operations are performed by Foxboro to make parts easier to use in assembling the final product or preparing the part for sale. Foxboro offers secondary operations including but not limited to assembly, hot stamping, riveting, stapling, labeling, retail packaging & sonic welding.
Specialized Packaging Requirements
In one application, our customer sells through catalogue orders with a kanban inventory system in quantities of 12. Our corrugation supplier assisted Foxboro in developing a dual-purpose packing system. This system allows us to send products to our customer in quantities of 12 and allows the customer to quickly send out individual packaged products to satisfy their catalogue orders without having to repackage the product.
Specialized Packaging Requirements
As custom computerized inventory systems are widely used, the packaging of manufactured goods is also just as important. Foxboro has worked with many of our customers to incorporate specialized packaging requirements into the manufacturing process.
We can accommodate size, weight, and/or quantity requirements on pallets of finished goods, as dictated by your inventory kanban system; or we can produce and install bar codes for inventory identification. Foxboro has corrugation suppliers that will assist in producing custom-sized and custom-labeled containers for your unique product.
Specialized Packaging Requirements
Similarly, another customer has a weight restriction on their packaged
inventory for their assembly line. We were able to work with our customer and
corrugation supplier to develop packaging to fit within the weight restrictions and
maximize assembly line efficiency with the use of cell partitions.