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Elegant solutions  

DP Seals, a leading manufacturer with over 30 years' experience of precision custom rubber seals and mouldings, is uniquely placed to help leverage extra performance from your aerospace and avionics products.

Elegant solutions - materials, engineering, tooling, production and quality - working in perfect harmony reveal the beauty of a joined-up solution: from engineer’s desk to quality product, quickly, efficiently and accurately. Continuous investment in engineering and production processes underpins the understanding of the cost/performance benefits presented by new polymers - benefits that give clients an all-important unseen edge.

CAD/CAM integration

A direct, high-efficiency link from engineer's desktop to in-house tool room ensures prototype tooling in optimum time without compromising precision or quality and eliminating error.

Whether for prototyping or mass production, tool production requires more than equipment; it requires knowing how to section a tool and how materials behave under pressure to ensure a highly reliable end product.

In-house tooling

The busy in-house tool room benefits from the latest technology: state-of-the-art vertical machining centres (VMC) and advanced CNC lathes augment existing all-CNC VMCs, lathes and mills and advanced spark erosion and wire cutting capabilities.

Production

Tool and material meet on the shop floor. Characterised by low set-up times with high accuracy and repeatability, DP Seals' transfer moulding capabilities are ideal for short prototype runs and for volume production across a wide range of polymers.

The two biggest presses take significantly larger tooling, allowing manufacture of larger, more complex mouldings as well as increased batch sizes for high volume components integrated with Kanban and JIT-enabled processes.

Cleaning

DP Seals pioneered cryogenic de-flashing and now has two of the most advanced machines of their kind in the world. Cryogenic de-flashing has made the essential cleaning process faster, more efficient and more effective than ever. This is one of several product-specific cleaning systems installed at DP Seals to ensure all output is free from flashing and defects.

Quality control

DP Seals' TQM approach to quality control is second to none. The company is one of a very select band of custom rubber moulding companies in the world to achieve AS 9100 accreditation. It was also one of the first custom rubber moulding companies in the UK to achieve ISO 9001:2000 accreditation.

AS 9100 and ISO 9001 standards are strictly enforced
and monitored by the dedicated inspection unit