Icon Plastics Ltd
Unit 5, Allens West
Eaglescliffe Logistics Centre
Durham Lane
Eaglescliffe
Stockton-On-Tees
Cleveland TS16 0RW
Telephone: 01642 786 520
What We Do
Every concept starts with a basic idea that needs developing, at Icon Plastics we can help support you taking your project from design through to a cost effective manufacturing solution.
With our experience and partnerships with product designers we can help you through the process:
- Advising on moulding constraints that may impact on the design
- Recommending the right polymers to achieve the product characteristic you need
- Assessing the feasibility of a design for injection moulding and assembly
- Providing realistic guidance on costs for each stage of the development
- Helping you address problems earlier in the development process
- Saving you design time and money.
For more information on Concept and Product Design please contact us.
Prototyping gives you a chance to ‘touch and feel’ the product without the expense of purchasing a injection mould tool. This stage enables you to finalise the design and materials; providing you with a model to test with your customers and investors. Here are some of the processes you can use:
Stereolithography (SLA). SLA models are tough, ideal for fit or to be painted for marketing or as masters for silicone tooling.
Through this stage we provide a manufacturers’ perspective:
- Focusing on manufacturing feasibility
- Optimising the design for cost efficient production
- Advising on the best type of prototype to demonstrate your product
- Project managing the process to meet your objectives
For more information on Prototyping please contact us and Icon Plastics can advise the best alternative and project manage that process for you.
At Icon Plastics we project managing the production/purchasing of injection mould tools quickley and effectively for our customers. Injection mould tooling for the manufacture of any product is a large financial investment, and it’s important to get it right first time. So finding a tool manufacturer with the appropriate skills for your product is critical.
Icon Plastics has alliances with tool manufacturers in the UK and overseas, and will facilitate the process for you while enforcing our strict quality procedures for sub-contract partners:
- Recommending the tool manufacturer with the ability to deliver a moulding tool to specification
- Negotiating the best price
- Testing and validating the tooling to your satisfaction
- Delivering a tool that’s ready for full scale production
For more information on Tooling please contact us.
Icon Plastics have an impressive range of plastic injection moulding capacity ranging from 40 tonnes up to 370 tonnes. Our site is also equipped with all the ancillary plastic injection moulding equipment you would except to find in a production mould and assembly shop of this size, dryers, converyors, hot runner controllers, robots and mould heaters.
Icon Plastics with their committed highly trained workforce provide a full turnkey manufacturing solution which is flexible, cost effective and delivering the quality you need at the best price. Icon Plastics operates a Quality Management System (QMS) that has gained ISO 9001:2008 certification and is complemented by Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP). Our in-house services are customised to meet your specific requirements and include:
- Manufacturing operations run 24 hours, 5 days per week
- High volume production runs
- Complexed low volume bridge to production runs
- Complex sub assembly
- Full line service (concept to product delivery)
- Hotfoil printing
- Laser etching
For more information on Injection Moulding and Assembly please contact us.
To view our Press Specifications please click here. In addition to our injection moulding machines we have:
- Rofin Yag Laser Marker
- PBE Hotfoil Printer
- Tamp Print (TampPrinter) Hermetic 9-11
- Sepro Robots (4 off)
- Staubli Six Axis Robot
- Pressflow Robot
Icon Plastics Quality Policy Statement
Icon Plastics aims to provide defect free goods and services to its customers on time and within budget. Icon Plastics Ltd operates a Quality Management System (QMS) that has gained ISO 9001:2008 certification, including aspects to the provision of Injection Moulding & Assembly.
- Quotations – Tooling, Moulding and Assemblies
- Master Timing Plans
- Feasibility ‘Sign Off’
- Sub-supplied Component Approval
- Detailed - Process Flow Diagrams; Control Plans & PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) report
- Quality Plans / Quality Planning
- Significant Characteristic Reviews
- Process Capability studies / SPC (Statistical Process Control)
- Full Dimensional Inspection Reports
- Dimensional Deviation Reports
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Material Testing / DVP Plans (Design Verification Plan)
- Gauge R&R (Repeatability & Reproducibility) reports
- Gauge MSA (Measurement System Analysis)
- Production Trials / 2DP Trials (2 day production trials)
- Packaging Trials & Approval
- Operator Instructions / Standard Operating Procedures
- First Off Inspection
- Hourly Inspection
- Outflow Inspection Area for 100% checking of parts
- Dimensional Testing
- Last Off Inspection
- Non Conformances (Customer, Supplier & Internal)
- Moulding Scrap
- New Customers – Projects, Tooling and Moulding
- Staff Turnover
- Moulding Machine Utilisation
- Outflow Inspection
- Outflow Attributes
This is where Icon Plastics stands out from the rest, our superb 27,000 sq ft facility enable us to help you optimise your supply chain.
Icon Plastics site now include a secure, insulated 9000 cubic metre warehouse, enabling us to offer you not only storage but ‘just in time’ stock management. By storing all of your component parts together, they can be despatched to you assembled and in the proportions you need them. This total storage solution could help you optimise your supply chain by:
- Reducing transport and stock management costs
- Delivering components just in time
- Utilising your warehousing for finished products or other raw materials
- Enabling you to achieve cost benefits through longer production runs
- Consolidating your supplies
- Saving you time and money
For more information on Supply Chain Optimisation please contact us.