General industry: Packaging
LLDPE
HDPE
Stainless Steel Conical Spring
Silicon Gasket
Plastic Injection Moulding
Inner Dia :31.2± 0.03
General Tolerances
Critical Tolerances
A South Africa-based packaging company approached OMPL to manufacture a leak-proof valve with a rubber flap for its dunnage airbags. The valve needed to meet the strict cargo policies and standards for packaging. They were looking for a manufacturer with strong design capability who could give shape to their idea as well as custom-build parts at a competitive price. OMPL fit the bill.
We worked closely with the client to ideate and developed the prototype in our in house design facility.
Our team began conceptualising a valve with a plastic body assembled with a rubber flap. The main goal was to avoid leakage. After building our first prototype mould, we found deep weld lines and shrinkage due to high wall thickness in the profile area and found leakage during leak testing. Our next task was to eliminate the issues we found in our first prototype.
Our engineers devised a solution by building a split mould (head and flange) to avoid shrinkage and weld lines. Further, both parts were joined through an ultra-sonic welding machine. By doing this, we made sure the prototype was 100 % leakproof.
The final outcome was a product that came to life with very few iterations and low production costs and successfully met the client's requirements and packaging standards.
Since then, we have worked with this client to develop other successful components for them.
