Experts in plastic products Bepolplast

Bepolplast, a family-owned company from Zarnowiec, is Poland’s leading producer of technical plastic components and injection moulds.

EXPERTS IN PLASTIC PRODUCTS

Bepolplast has been operating on the market for more than 30 years. Since the beginning of its activity, it has specialized in the production of high quality, precise products made of standard and composite thermoplastics. The products are manufactured by injection moulding, based on individual requirements of business clients, using injection moulds made in our tool shop.

Bepolplast products have gained recognition from executives at automotive component firms as well as from leading furniture makers. For many years it has systematically entered into long-term contracts and has been increasing exports. While it does offers products made in bulk, the company is in line with the market trends showing the need for small, unique batches, thus Bepolplast manufactures also limited-edition series.

The company’s logistics system works according to the seven Rs, which the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport UK defines as: getting the Right product, in the Right quantity, in the Right condition, at the Right place, at the Right time, to the Right customer, at the Right price.

Experienced staff and innovative technologies

According to the company’s management, the company’s staff are the key to Bepolplast’s success; their qualifications, their commitment and their professional experience. Many employees have been working in the company for 15 years and more. The strong and direct involvement of Bepolplast’s business partners also plays a strong role.

Constant investments in innovative technologies, helped with significant funding from the European Regional Development Fund, has also helped the company become more successful. Bepolplast can pride itself on its R&D department that has precise measuring tools, including the industrial measuring microscope, a device for measuring roughness, devices for strength tests and other measuring tools. Through the implementation of innovative technologies, the company has been able to expand its offering and make it possible to remain competitive on the plastics processing and tooling market, as well as attracting new customers and retaining existing ones. Scope of the offer

Bepolplast is a producer of suspension elements for the automotive industry as well as furniture elements, masking elements and closing metal profiles and other technical fittings of a high quality with a full tool service. Its products prove to be useful everywhere that it can be found big pressure, aggressive influence of the environment, adverse physical movement conditions or close proximity and contact with foodstuffs. The company it processes high-tech thermoplastics, composite and standard plastics and makes two-material elements using the overmoulding technology. Since there is a visible increase in interest in bi-material, they are made using 2K technology - injection moulding in one process.

Most of Bepolplast’s products are sold directly to on the Polish market, though they are also found in more complex products exported all over the world. These are often elements with complex geometry, parts for adjustment mechanisms with the need to maintain high dimensional accuracy. In the field of furniture and lighting, fittings manufactured by Bepolplast are installed in exported luxury products, where the quality requirements are high.

The company’s offer also includes tool design and fabrication (injection moulds, forging dies, blanking dies) on the basis of pictures, lump models , patterns of the small part or specific structural and functional

Mold and die solutions

PROPLASTICA is one of the leading companies in the industry in Europe and our products are distributed also to other continents. Our wide offer includes:

• mold components: ejectors, guide pins and bushes, locating rings, locks, sliders, counters, cooling accessories, date stamps and marking inserts, insulating plates, ISO springs and mold plates.

• die components: guide pins and bushes, punches and dies, gas springs, lifting components and die sets.

Our strength is special machining services, such as: CNC torch cutting, grinding and precise surface milling, comprehensive machining on CNC milling machines up to 4 axes, drilling deep holes and machining of round elements - turning, shaft grinding, honing, hot forging. A large selection of materials used which are subject to a complete and controlled stress relieving process. The company is focused on meeting customer requirements and maintaining high quality products and services. It has a certified quality management system according to ISO 9001: 2015 and operates in accordance with its requirements. assumptions. Bepolplast covers the full production process, from the idea stage to the finished product. Each injection mould, before being delivered to a customer, is tested.

Towards the future

Bepolplast’s latest offer includes plastic products, injection moulds and metal elements with the surface texture made according to the client’s needs by the laser ablation method.

Current and potential clients have been diagnosed with need to functionalise surface and so focused on a method of modification that did not change the chemical composition, add an additional layer made of another material, or require the use of chemicals. In other words, when most companies moved towards additive manufacturing, Bepolplast went in the opposite direction, implementing new subtractive technolo-

gies. Co-financing by the European Union from the ERDF made it possible to build a facility and to purchase the equipment to implement laser ablation technology, enabling further innovation and expanding its range of products and services.

Surface properties must be controlled and modified to meet the high technical requirements in various sectors. In addition to the enormous design possibilities, surface modification allows to provide products with dedicated functionalities such as friction adjustment, lubrication intensification lubrication, intensification of heat transfer, stimulation of microflows, increase of chemical activity, reduction of adhesion forces between the material used and the die socket surface, etc. Preliminary results of the ability to obtain textured surfaces on metal are shown in the attached images. We are currently in the process of making injection moulds with a textured surface. We will then move on to injection moulding of various plastics including wood filled plastics.

Bepolpalst operates in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. It will continue the current development strategy consisting of the implementation of innovative technologies enabling the achievement of ever higher quality and precision of plastic elements intended for technical applications, with high functional and aesthetic values, also by modifying the surface. Moreover, it is to develop the processing of ecological plastics . The company strongly emphasises that it fully accepts the trend aimed at eliminating single-use plastics from the consumer market, since it has never made such products.

In terms of management methods, it benefits from a diversity of knowledge, skills and attitudes. Therefore its strategy is for further diversity in its workforce and to deepen cooperation between in various roles, regardless of political views, religious beliefs or race. The next necessary step is to implement, deepen and extend the elements of World Class Manufacturing, an integrated management system, the basic assumptions, of which are the absence of losses, failures, defects and accidents. n