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Top Injection Moulding Companies in the UK

Injection moulding companies are essential in producing high-quality, precise plastic components for industries such as automotive, medical, packaging, and electronics in the country. Many injection moulding companies specialise in creating complex designs with tight tolerances, offering expertise in material selection, mould design, and large-scale production.

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What is your REAL scrap rate?

Scrap rates for the injection moulding industry are easy to calculate, but often painful to believe – it is simply the difference in weight between how much plastic you buy in, and the total weight of parts delivered. Typically this is as much as 10%, although when questioned about scrap rates companies reported to us the figures they wanted to talk about – such as “customer reject rates” of 4.5ppm or their “production reject rate” where we heard of 0.001%.  These figures are just self-congratulatory and distorted.

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