Plastics and composite Polymers producing advanced forms
Polymer and Plastic Injection Moulding Engineers are in increasing demand in Irish manufacturing and greater pressures are now on manufacturing engineers as the drive for high tech goods such as medical devices, automotive, telecommunications and IT hardware devices continues to increase as the applications for technology move towards convergence.
For instance, not so long ago telephones and cameras would not have been identified as mutually combineable products but today few people would consider buying a mobile phone without an integral camera. Similarly we are now finding that its the little things can be the difference when selling a car. These are sometimes innocuous items such as an Ipod Port or the external or internal dash or bodywork mouldings which have been designed on computer to provide either the most efficient aerodynamic profile or the optimum ergonomic interior for driver and passenger.
At the heart of all these items are polymers and plastics that consider touch, colour and in some case smell, providing product designers with hitherto previously unrealisable avenues for selling the end product whether its the latest lightweight Ipod or the fastest, safest and most fuel efficient cars on the road today.
