Overmolding for Grips | Soft-Touch & Ergonomic Handle Solutions
What Accuracy, Comfort, and Performance of Overmolding?
Overmolding for grips has been an essential process in the manufacturing industry today in the production of a component that is ergonomic, durable, and attractive. The need for soft-touch, multi-material gripping is growing fast in the industry tools, as well as consumer goods. A reliable precision molding leader, SunOn can provide custom overmolding of handles and two-shot of grips, which provides the best-performing and most comfortable solutions.
What is Overmolding of Grips?
Grip overmolding is a complex production process involving the integration of two or more substances in a single component. This process is often done using two-shot molding of grips or bi-material injection molding of handles to enable manufacturers to create soft-touch surfaces, ergonomic shapes, and designs that are multi-material.
In contrast to traditional molding techniques, overmolding combines several materials with each other without the need to assemble them, saving labor expenses and improving durability, certain design, and utilization. With a combination of the thermoplastics, TPE, and silicone, manufacturers are able to create comfortable, high-performing, and long-lasting grips.
Why SunOn is the Best Option for Grip Overmolding?
SunOn is a well-known international company as a high-quality OEM overmold manufacturer dealing in soft-touch overmold as grips, bi-material grips, and multi-material handle molding. Our high-quality control and state-of-the-art machinery are used to produce precision grip molding solutions for a host of industries.
Some of the Main Benefits of SunOn are:
High-Precision Overmolding: The technique employs multiple-cavity molds to form complex shapes.
Material Expertise: Mastery of TPE overmolding grips and dual material injection molding handles.
Automated Production Lines: This provides a consistent quality and has facilitated high volume over moulding grips.
Outsourced Solutions: turnkey overmolding solutions of all sizes, prototypes through to full production.
Industry Compliance: Medical, consumer, and industrial-appropriate materials and processes.
Overmolding of Grips
Grip overmolding solutions are highly applicable in industries where they are used to provide comfort, functionality, and durability.
Tool Handles and Industrial Equipment
The ergonomic grip overmolding also offers comfortable non-slip surfaces to users.
Overmolded handles minimize fatigue when used over a long period and enhance safety.
Sports and Consumer Products
- Sports equipment grips are overmolded in two shots to provide high-performance, durable surfaces.
- Multi-material grips are a combination of soft and hard structural support coupled with a soft-touch grip.
Automotive and Electronics
- Automotive grips overmolding solutions are steering wheel covers, gearshift handles, and dashboard controls.
- Plastic handles are overmolded with soft touch to increase the tactile feedback in consumer electronics such as remote controls and game controllers.
Medical and Healthcare Applications
- Medical instruments, diagnostic equipment, and surgical tools have ergonomic overmolded grips.
- The biocompatible materials are safe and have high-tolerance precision.
SunOn can provide components that fulfil functional and aesthetic needs through the custom grip overmolding.
Technical Benefits of Grip Overmolding
The technical advantages of the overmolding process of soft-touch handles are multiple, and this is exactly the reason why it can be used in industrial applications as well as consumer applications:
Seamless Material Bonding: Provides handles that have overmolded dual-material grips.
Accurate Mold Flow Analysis: Ensures the same dimensions and quality throughout high production volumes.
High-Tolerance Ergonomic Handle Molding: Retains the precise requirements of complicated grip construction.
Automated Overmolding Production: Aids in reducing labor expenses and providing repeatability.
Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) Overmolding: It offers soft-feeling surfaces that have longer longevity.
Bespoke Designs: Accepts multi-material overmolding grips that are designed to client standards.
We have been able to develop overmolded soft-touch surfaces with high-quality grips using two-shot molding and ergonomic grips using advanced overmolding tooling, all of which would fit harsh applications.
Overmolding Materials Used in Grip
The choice of material should be critical to guarantee the comfort, durability, and usability:
Structural Support: ABS, PC, PP, and PE.
TPE and Silicone: Ergonomically-comfy soft-touch and flexible surfaces.
Bi-Material Combinations: Hard-core grips with soft material overmolding.
The compatibility of resin, temperature control of the mold, and polymer flow dynamics are at their best to achieve a precision grip molding with the same quality and high-quality tactile performance.
SunOn Expertise in Silicone Compression Molding
Besides conventional overmolding, SunOn also focuses on silicone compression molding, which is the best way to have high-performance grips and soft-touch handles. It is a process that ensures that it is durable, flexible, and reliable in terms of performance in extensive conditions.
Silicone Compression Molding Applications
Medical Equipment: Seals, gaskets, tubing, and biocompatible components.
Car Parts: Engine gasket, vibration dampers, high-temperature gaskets.
Electronics: Precise fast-fitting insulating covers, switches, keypads.
Industrial Machinery: O-rings, diaphragms, and vibration isolation devices.
Consumer Products: Wearables, ergonomic grips, protective covers.
Food and Beverage: Seals, kitchenware, and molds approved by the FDA.
Silicone Compression Molding Advantages
High Accuracy: Stable production of parts and performance.
Cost Efficiency: Minimizes the wastes and costs of production.
Durability: Parts that have a longer service life and wear resistance.
Temperature Resistance: Durable operation even under high temperatures.
Flexibility: Supports sophisticated design and a tailored requirement.
Chemical Resistance: Has oils, solvents, and environmental resistance.
Biocompatibility: Medical and food-grade.
Understanding the principles of combining soft-touch overmolding with grips with silicone compression molding, SunOn creates ergonomic high-performance grips, which are not comparable to any other grips in quality and durability.
Business Benefits of Collaboration with SunOn
The decision to overmold grips with SunOn gives a competitive advantage:
Custom Solutions: OEM / private-label multi-material overmolding grips are customized.
High-Volume Production: Automated production lines of high-volume, consistent grip overmolding production.
Cost Effectiveness: Minimal production minimises labour and material expenses.
Increased Ergonomics: Soft-touch and two-material designs add to the user experience.
Industry Compliance: Materials are of consumer, industrial, and medical compliance.
SunOn has maintained the perfect ergonomic grip, which is durable and attractive to the eye, and is the preferred customer of the manufacturers in the world.
Prospects of Grip Overmolding
Innovation in overmolding technologies is being triggered by the need to have high-performance ergonomic grips:
- A combination of soft-touch and hard materials to enhance tactile feeling and comfort.
- High volume and/or fine production with sophisticated multi-cavity tooling.
- Robotic overmolding to enhance scalability and cost-effectiveness.
- Grips and grips are available in bi-material and multi-material, which can be customized to fit specialized purposes.
SunOn remains innovative in its ergonomic grip overmolding, bi-material injection molding handles, and soft-touch grip molding, whereby clients are ahead of the curve in regard to performance and design.
Conclusion
Overmolding for grips is the best solution for manufacturers who want to have precision, comfort, and durability. SunOn has the experience of two-shot molding grips, soft-touch overmolding grips, and custom grip overmolding services, guaranteeing the company components that are of high ergonomics, appearance, and performance.
Using a mix of sophisticated overmolding, silicone compression molding, and multi-material molding solutions, SunOn can provide high-quality, durable, and aesthetically pleasing grips that fit on industrial equipment, automotive, consumer goods, and medical equipment.
