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Fencing Feet – Quality Moulding

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Melba Swintex is bringing back its custom moulded Fencing Foot after many customer requests.


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Fencing Feet Bases

You’ll be Head Over Heels with our Quality.
Available in three sizes – 25kgs, 18kgs and 13kgs.

The Tuff Fencing Foot

A one piece compression moulded base, manufactured from recycled material. The base is completely recyclable, boasting high durability and strength. The product is a single man lift, with specially designed handles either side, which allows carrying with ease.

Temporary Fencing Feet ensure the safety and stability of fencing panels and are an essential requirement when assembling a temporary metal fencing system.

It is essential that temporary fencing has a strong base, as although your system will only be installed for a short period of time, it will still need to withstand high winds and possible tampering.

It features six holes which the panels can easily be fit into and the holes are also suitable for vehicle gates. They are an excellent component for the steel hoarding system.

The fencing feet makes a robust, shock proof product which will last much longer than a traditional concrete block. Its innovative design makes it easy to carry and handle.
This product is 100% recyclable.

Colours Available

Fencing feet can be embossed and painted in full which is great for stopping theft as they can be easily identified, or for a money saving alternative – the ends can be colour coated (known as tipping – see image below).

coloured fencing feet
Coloured Fencing Feet.

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Standard Fencing Foot.

Features

• Manufactured from recycled PVC.
• Handles at either side for easy lifting.
• Two slots for Fork lift entry.
• 6 location points for fence posts.
• Bases stack with each other.

Road Cones to Barriers – How They are Made

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Although we produce a wide range of products they can be broken down into road cones, barriers, signs, litter bins. But we don’t just do road cones we also do custom mouldings.

Road cones are usually intrusion moulded or compression moulded. If it is a two piece road cone the top is blow moulded and assembled with the base.

Traffic Barriers are blow moulded but the feet are intrusion moulded and connectors are injection moulded.

Signs are intrusion moulded in pieces and contructed at the machine very efficiently.

Litter Bins are rotation moulded. Whilst its an old technology its very good for changing colours in production,

Custom moulded products can be made in any of the ways below. We can advise on which method would be best for you but take a quick look now at the different moulding techniques we can offer you.

blow moulding road cones

Blow Moulding – Pre-mixed material is automatically fed into the machine hopper, this material is heated until melting point, and then extruded vertically via gravity. Two machined profile mould then encase the material, whilst compressed air is used to inflate the parison against the moulds. The plastic is cooled within the mould, and then removed after the cycle is complete.

Melba Swintex currently own six of the most modernised blow moulding machines of diverse size in the UK. It also owns the largest machine currently in the UK.

Compression Moulding – Pre-Mixed Material is removed from the extruder after being melted, and then placed into one half of the mould. The top part of the mould is then pressured down and compresses the material into the moulding. A short period is allowed for cooling, and then the product is removed and left to further cool down.

Intrusion Moulding – Pre-mixed material is automatically fed into the machine hopper, this material is heated until melting point, and then extruded into the mould. The mould can either be water or air cooled. Once the product has solidified enough, It is removed from the mould either by hand or with ejection.

Rotational Moulding – Recyclable granulated polyethylene is placed inside the mould. A flame is held underneath to melt the plastic. The mould is then rotated continuously over a period of time. Centrifugal force causes the melted plastic to be pushed to the walls of the mould. The flame is removed whilst the rotation continues, after the cooling process the product can be removed.

Hopefully from this you can see how our road cones, barriers, signs, litter bins and custom mouldings are made.

Custom Moulding a Whole New Era

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With new production equipment comes new Custom Moulding Facilities and Trade Moulding. Melba Swintex has invested hugely in new machinery over the last 10 years but in particularly over the last 2 years. This has opened up new markets and we are able to offer

  • Injection Moulding
  • Compression Moulding
  • Rotational Moulding
  • Blow Moulding

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We have huge amounts of experience and technical know how as well as a design department with 3D printing facilities. We understand that you need to hold and feel your bespoke product before committing to a full production run and are able to prototype and model new shapes so that you can see and feel the real model in your hands before tooling up. The in-house toolmaking team will then engineer the mould further speeding up production.

Take a look here for more custom moulding information

Lancashire manufacturer of temporary traffic management products Melba Swintex (PDM, Stand A044) will launch its trade custom moulding capabilities in trade blow moulding, trade compression moulding, trade injection moulding and trade rotational moulding. The company now wants to work with partners to provide customised products in other sectors.

It can offer design expertise and digital 3D printing, along with product design and tool design capabilities.

Around 90% of Melba Swintex’s product range is made from recycled material.

The company recently launched the Boss Crowd Control Barrier to move into the event management market. It also added a new blow moulded trench cover ‘Tuff Trench’ and the new blow-moulded wheelchair ramp – the ‘Kerb Buddy’ to the range. With new products being introduced all the time and old ones being revamped into modern society there’s a wide range of products for you to admire. As a leading company in the traffic management industry we are also a leading custom moulding company.