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Automotive

Approximately 700,000 bumpers are being replaced in the UK each year, many with only minor damage. The focussed challenge we are addressing is that currently it is virtually impossible to repair cracks in most plastics without damaging them further due to excessive heat required in existing repair processes.

A view which has ultimately led the global automotive repair industry to pursue the unfortunate and unsustainable methodology of ‘replace not repair’.

The team at Pinweld have our sights set to develop a hand-held repair tool for this market (and other allied markets) using the advancements in the technology to create a small precision instrument benefitting from Machine Learning and AI algorithms optimised for the processes of the waiting bodyshops.

  • Arch

Early welds on a range of typical car bumper and headlight plastics at the University of Bath (UoB) recorded encouraging results approaching parent material strength. This level of post repair strength allows repairers to not require support materials like meshes and staples in order to be effective. While an excellent achievement so early on, what became an unexpected but significant discovery, was the reinstatement of the plastic material’s properties once repaired. This was truly a first. Watch this space!

  • Manufacturing
  • Automotive
  • Pipes

Manufacturing

Due to the novel way the Pinweld technology works which essentially joins the component parts by replicating the original moulding conditions on a microscopic scale along a joint, it is ideally positioned to be the first linear welding technique for large plastic structures including those made from recycled and bio-derived polymers.

 

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Automotive

Approximately 700,000 bumpers are being replaced in the UK each year, many with only minor damage. The focussed challenge we are addressing is that currently it is virtually impossible to repair cracks in most plastics without damaging them further due to excessive heat required in existing repair processes.

 

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Polyethylene Pipes

The latest Innovate UK grant supported project is to investigate a new and innovative method of joining Polyethylene (PE) pipes, an area that has not seen much innovation in the past twenty-five years. The Pinweld technology will deliver leak free joints, with no heating or cooling cycles, in a highly compact solution for both new networks and repairs.

 

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