E&T The E&T – Engineering and Tooling Group focuses the activity of its companies on engineering, development, manufacturing and exporting molds for the plastics industry, as well as on mold testing and plastic parts manufacturing, within the most diversified sectors and markets.
Today, the Group is the image of the experience acquired by its players throughout its many years of activity and involvement with the molding industry. This experience has increasingly been consolidated through the resolution of the continuous challenges made by technological development and market demands.
Its staff encompasses specialized technicians for the most diverse areas and along with state-of-the –art technology, it enables E&T to completely meet the client’s needs. The Group is always looking for the best quality, the most adequate deadlines and the most competitive prices, aiming primarily at their satisfaction and subsequently to the development of a strong commercial relationship, based on a spirit of partnership and mutual trust.
Today, the Group has an important place in the balance of exports in Portugal, within its sector.
As soon as the project is approved, E&T starts the production phase, planning all the process and operations needed, so that previously agreed deadlines are scrupulously met.
The project supervision is carried out by E&T technical team; they issue periodic reports about the work in progress that along with digital photos, are both sent to the client.
E&T technicians supervise the project right from its conception to the dispatching phase, documenting all operations in technical reports adequate to the production phase.
Today, the Group is the image of the experience acquired by its players throughout its many years of activity and involvement with the molding industry. This experience has increasingly been consolidated through the resolution of the continuous challenges made by technological development and market demands.
Its staff encompasses specialized technicians for the most diverse areas and along with state-of-the –art technology, it enables E&T to completely meet the client’s needs. The Group is always looking for the best quality, the most adequate deadlines and the most competitive prices, aiming primarily at their satisfaction and subsequently to the development of a strong commercial relationship, based on a spirit of partnership and mutual trust.
Today, the Group has an important place in the balance of exports in Portugal, within its sector.
As soon as the project is approved, E&T starts the production phase, planning all the process and operations needed, so that previously agreed deadlines are scrupulously met.
The project supervision is carried out by E&T technical team; they issue periodic reports about the work in progress that along with digital photos, are both sent to the client.
E&T technicians supervise the project right from its conception to the dispatching phase, documenting all operations in technical reports adequate to the production phase.
AFR Moldes, the manufacturing unit from E&T Group, was founded in 1999. It has since increased its manufacturing capacity and level of specialization. Today, it accounts for a manufacturing area of about 1300 m2 (14 000 ft2, approx.), 40 specialized technicians for the different manufacturing sectors and a set of machinery quite updated.
Industry demands coupled with the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of the company’s board, drive AFR Moldes to invest on state-of-the-art technology and specialized training, generating thus the skills needed to manufacture all kind of injection molds, of up to 10 t. All in all the company is now able to stand out as one of the most well equipped within its sector, both technologically and in terms of specialized labor.
Industry demands coupled with the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of the company’s board, drive AFR Moldes to invest on state-of-the-art technology and specialized training, generating thus the skills needed to manufacture all kind of injection molds, of up to 10 t. All in all the company is now able to stand out as one of the most well equipped within its sector, both technologically and in terms of specialized labor.
KNOW-HOW
Throughout its existence and thanks to the diversity of the projects already executed, AFR Moldes has gathered knowledge and skills allowing it to apply the most adequate engineering and processes, in order to ensure a higher quality in manufacturing and in the functionality of all its manufacture.
Besides AFR Moldes, E&T also relies on a structured network of about 10 local manufacturers; this network, along with its internal organization, endows the Group with the possibility of managing several large projects simultaneously, with the same ease and speed as if it was a single supplier, without additional charges or responsibilities for the client.
We design solutions according to the client’s demands with the purpose of manufacturing quality, ensuring repeatability of process and its easy maintenance.
Throughout its existence and thanks to the diversity of the projects already executed, AFR Moldes has gathered knowledge and skills allowing it to apply the most adequate engineering and processes, in order to ensure a higher quality in manufacturing and in the functionality of all its manufacture.
Besides AFR Moldes, E&T also relies on a structured network of about 10 local manufacturers; this network, along with its internal organization, endows the Group with the possibility of managing several large projects simultaneously, with the same ease and speed as if it was a single supplier, without additional charges or responsibilities for the client.
We design solutions according to the client’s demands with the purpose of manufacturing quality, ensuring repeatability of process and its easy maintenance.
During 2015, E&T has opened a new centre of mold testing and pre-series production. This new centre comprehends four ENGEL injection machines of different clamping forces (160, 300, 500 and 800 t), all equipped with robot and conveyor belt to collect and pack the parts, and yet a modern feeding and material drying system. It is also possible to test bi-material molds as a result of having a second mobile injection unit and a rotary table. As a way to ensure the final quality of the product a new lab for dimensional control was also created; it is equipped with a modern measuring Werth equipment.
Engineering
and Project |
Filling parts
analysis |
Injection
molds |
Rapid
prototyping |
In Mold
Labeling |
Molds with metallic inserts
|
Gas assisted
Injection Molding |
2 component
injection molds |
End of Arm
Tooling |
Die-casting Injection
Zamak | Aluminium |
