Design & Technical Support

Product Development

Oxford Polymers core manufacturing competency is in compounding engineering grade resins. Unlike resin suppliers, Oxford does not push our customers into resin specific solutions. We look at each customer request with an open view on design and material selection to achieve the best results for each application.

Do you need a whole new product look or just freshening of the product line? We can sit down with your engineering and marketing staff to identify desired new product styling attributes, and blend those with functional requirements. We can deliver a blend of both through various mediums; from conceptual renderings to 3D CAD files.

If you need assistance with material and process selection, we can help optimize those choices based upon product performance requirements, esthetics, projected life cycle and growth.

We can work with you and your mold builder as project managers ensuring that the tool embodies requisite cooling, ejection, venting, gating and other design features necessary to produce the desired part. Conversely we can provide "Turn Key" services to deliver mold design prints, and finished molds for various processes such as Blow Molding, Extrusion, standard Injection Molding, Two Component or Overmolding, etc.

Technical Support / Failure Analysis

We can evaluate and troubleshoot problems with your production process, tooling or part geometry and determine potential solutions. In addition we can help you optimize your molding efficiencies. Listed below are a few of the services we can provide:

Evaluate and rectify deficiencies in a product's performance
This could be material, design or processing based. Products can fail to provide the intended level of performance over their design life. This can fall into many categories such as premature wear, excessive creep and deflection, long term deterioration due to weathering, UV yellowing, part cracking due to inappropriate design or incompatible chemicals, etc.

Assist OEMs around the globe to conceptualize, develop and commercialize their polymer based products
Our interaction may involve engineer in residence programs, on site training courses and plastic product design mentoring. We can deliver in-house concept development workshops with your team.

Perform failure analysis on polymer-based products
We work at all levels of the supply chain (material supplier, mold maker, molder and end user) to find the root cause of a problem, and provide quick solutions.

Mold design critiquing for your specific resin / process / and part geometry
Recommendations for optimum cavitation, gating, runner systems, tool steel, actuation within the mold and venting are typical. This can carry on to mold build management, start up and debugging.