Capabilities

Prototype & Development

Prototype & Development

After many decades of prototyping and development work HPM offer a wealth of advice and experience. Quite often we have resolved your development issues in similar circumstances.

The best development is always done after consultation and we are happy to spend time talking through your prototype requirements. We can handle most types of CAD file, or can work from your basic 2D sketches.

Our toolmaking services and development moulding capabilities allow you to have production-intent parts at a fraction of the cost. We maintain a stock of development tools of various sizes. This means your prototyping costs are kept low – you just pay for the cavity blocks.

Fixed price service

When it comes to moulding development components we offer a “fixed price” service so you know what you are getting.

By selecting the correct metals for development tooling we can accommodate almost any amount of form changes. “Soft” tooling sometimes needs to be quite hard, especially for developing products in polymers like PEEK. Correct heating of development tools is also vital.

A STANDARD CHARGE IS
MADE FOR SETTING UP YOUR
PROTOTYPE TOOL
AN AGREED QUANTITY OF
PARTS ARE PRODUCED IN
YOUR CHOICE OF MATERIAL
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
CAN ALSO BE ADDED FOR
DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES
PROTOTYPE IS FORMED TO
YOUR EXACT REQUIREMENTS

Our innovation in action

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Automotive

It took our material knowledge and processing expertise to bring a diesel injector product to market. The customer demanded extensive trials and experimentation before the product could be fitted to vehicles and it formed the start of a long line of products giving our OEM customer a significant market lead worldwide.

“The only sound you hear in a Rolls Royce is the ticking of the clock” which is why this gearbox for a Rolls Royce seat is so special. Not only does it have to perform to Rolls Royce’s exemplary quality standards, but it is so quiet it must be tested in a sound-proofed room. Materials, design, and assembly expertise were all bought to bear on this challenging development.

Medical
HPM continues to develop levels of manufacturing expertise rarely seen in the UK. Our extensive knowledge of materials for medical products was vital for this life saving application used in heart surgery. The product combines the two processes of Metal Injection Moulding (MIM) and Plastic Injection Moulding (PIM), something not seen on this scale before and certainly not in such a complex and technical application.

 

  

You have a new design? Need a new mould? Need extra capacity? Need innovative thinking?

We pride ourselves on being able to take an idea from just a thought to a pre-production sample, and ultimately right through into production.

Plastic reinvented

HPM is your partner in reinventing manufacturing so you can make the impossible, possible, by continuous development of technological procedures and the use of new materials, whilst delivering world class products and solutions on time, first time, everytime.

Plastic reinvented

HPM is your partner in reinventing manufacturing so you can make the impossible, possible, by continuous development of technological procedures and the use of new materials, whilst delivering world class products and solutions on time, first time, everytime.