We are dedicated to manufacturing safety and function critical components with micron precision for commercial vehicles, passenger cars and two-wheeler systems. We believe that true innovation lies in the details, making even the smallest components impactful. Our goal? To drive your product toward success!
Refine and support to validate product concepts
Additional treatments in-house
Extensive testing in-house
Experienced team of engineers equipped with simulation tools
Reliable moulding of precision components
Semi- and full automated assembling
We offer many different production processes to manufacture your mobility component
The classic manufacturing process for thermoplastic products. By designing the injection tools based on the specific product requirements and by defining the correct production processes we are able to offer high precision components on a competitive cost level.
Components are precisely inserted in the mould before the injection process and will therefore be integrated in the final part with an optimal connection.
With this process we encapsulate a component like a PCB, a sensor or similar with plastics and by that are able to protect it against media contact. Especially in automotive encapsulation of electronics becomes more and more important.
You have an idea, but not sure if it can be manufactured? Helvoet’s expertise in design for manufacturing is what you need. Co-development and plastic engineering is our specialty. By partnering with our design staff, your time to market can be reduced tremendously.
We process all kind of materials from the more basic ones up to high end compounds
In our locations we handle all typical thermoplastic polymers like PP, PE, ABS to produce your required product.
If a product has a higher requirement on precision, stability or resistance we usually use engineering compounds like PA6, PA66, POM – often filled with reinforcing materials like glassfibres.
When the application required really special properties we switch to high end compounds in our manufacturing process. Here we use materials like PPS, PEI, PEEK with diverse reinforcing fillers to meet the specifications and tolerances of our customers.
Thermoset plastics contain polymers that cross-link together during the molding and curing process to form an irreversible chemical bond. This significantly improves the material’s mechanical properties (strength), providing enhanced chemical or heat resistance and dimensional stability. The compounds mainly are made out of phenol and epoxy resins which are reinforced with up to 80% of glass fibers, carbon fibers, glass balls, mineral powder, etc.
Standard LSR is available in post cure and Non-post cure types and is suitable for a lot of different applications, including products for the food tech industry.
There are a lot of different resistant LSR types developed. Examples are oil resistant and coolant resistant types, but also fluoridated LSR has been developed for a good resistance to fuels
LSR types in this category have been designed for a specific function. Examples are self-lubrication, oil sweating, ultra transparent silicone types and grades that have a low coefficient of friction.
Self-adhesive LSR can be used for direct bonding to many different substrates. These materials include metal and many plastic types like PBT or PA
If you have higher requirements for the product, Engineering Elastomers apply: Butyl Rubber (IIR), Chloroprene Rubber (CR), Ethylene Propylene Diene Rubber (EPDM) and Nitrile Rubber (NBR).
As the name says, these special compounds are High Performance materials: Acrylate Rubber (AEM, ACM), Polyurethane (PU), Silicone and Fluorosilicone Rubber (VMQ, FVMQ), Fluor rubber (FKM), Hydrogenated Nitrile Rubber (HNBR) and Perfluor Elastomers (FFKM).
We can formulate a rubber material that meets the customer specific properties and is also optimized for our moulding process. When we start the design of a new rubber compound formulation we always look at 3 main areas: The physical properties that are required, the processability and the selection of the right raw materials. The desired properties we discuss first with our customers, as it is important to know what the function of the product is and in what kind of environment it is operating.
Most of the technical products leaving our facilities require some extra treatment after the moulding process. We offer all post-processing steps in-house
As thermoplastic resins are engineered for more demanding applications, there is a tendency for these resins to run like water through a mold and that creates flash. Deflashing or deburring techniques using water, grain, air and numerous other techniques have been developed by Helvoet to remove this flash and maintain the integrity of the parts.
Altough it is always the goal to get ready-to-use products straigth out of the mould, tighter tolerances mean higher perfomance for our customers. Maintaining thickness capability at 0.002 mm requires a secondary process: flat grinding or lapping. Helvoet has delivered close to 500 Million parts that have used this technology ensuring micron precision.
Engineered resins like PPS, phenolics and rubber, require an aging process called post-curing. This process removes stress, helps guarantee dimensional stability and removes final volatile materials that are inherent. Helvoet has numerous post curing profiles that have been developed for each and every one of these materials.
Helvoet measures their products in microns and understands that contamination can occur in the numerous processes. Thus we have developed a sophisticated washing and drying process to remove contamination and ship products that meet your demanding requirements.
If a product like an ABS System leaks you will have a problem. That requires you to have 100% leak-testing before you assemble. Helvoet’s expertise in managing and monitoring the flow of media (fluid, air, gas), has given us a wide variety of experiences developing custom leak-testing equipment and integrating it in our production processes.
Did you know that 100% visual inspection by a human is only 80% accurate? Is that good enough for your products? Inline cameras have been placed at many locations throughout the manufacturing process to ensure the quality of your products.
If you can measure it you can improve it! Measuring in nanometers and microns is becoming the norm in industry today. Helvoet’s measuring capability includes state of the art equipment such as interferometers, air gauging, video measuring, contour roughness, 3D whitelight and other contactless measuring devices.
We offer various methods to assemble different components to a final functional product which can be used directly
Sometimes the process or the project do not allow an automated assembly. In these cases we can offer manual assembly in our locations in Poland and India.
A project that has a combination of low and high risk components, is a great target for semi-automated assembly. Using automation for the most critical components, and low-cost flexible labor for others, Helvoet offers their clients the lowest landed cost with highest levels of quality.
Using more than 3, 4, 7 or 11 components? Helvoet has answered numerous industrial challenges and designed dedicated, fully automated assembly lines running continuously. With automated assembly including in-line quality controls like vision or leakage tests or functional tests, the part quality is ensured by 100%.
Using over 40-years of experience in assembly of precision components, Helvoet has developed an own Flex-Line Technology. By utilizing interchangeable modules for each assembly step, Helvoet offers the quality of a fully automated line while it is a flexible and cost effective solution due to lower investment and changeover times. Contact us to get more information about the Flexline.
Let’s get in touch and discuss how we can drive your product toward success.