Cost-Efficient Injection Molding Capabilities. Decades of Satisfied Customers
Looking for the better way has been our approach to serving customers since the company was started in 1940. Whether it’s growing our resident expertise in molding materials, expanding equipment resources or broadening the functional knowledge of plant floor supervisors, our philosophy has never varied:
- Have what it takes to give customers what they need.
- Use innovation as the primary engine for developing differentiation in all aspects of the business
As a result, we today has the resources required to consistently deliver plastic molded parts and components of both the highest quality and greatest value.
- We can form almost any material capable of being molded, since we’ve kept pace with changes and advances in molding technology.
- We often combine sophisticated integrated component design and molding robotics within multi-functional manufacturing cells, from which exit fully completed products packaged for shipment. The production efficiencies created by such carefully planned processes lower product costs and shorten time-to-market.
- Our production managers have acquired, through a blend of training and experience, the expertise to maximize the output quality and efficiency of even our most sophisticated molding equipment. These insights and abilities are reflected in the consistently lower net costs our production systems generate across a wide spectrum of product types.
- A wide and varied list of qualified, proven, real-world tested professionals form our cadre of tool production experts. In addition, we maintain an in-house tool maintenance capability that helps extend the functional life of all tooling investments, providing customers with yet another source of cost savings.
With Every Product, We Deliver:
- Expertise in all thermoplastics
- Flexible cell manufacturing
- Tool design and engineering
- Industry-leading “green” technology
- Superior processing technicians
- Automated parts handling
- Automated insert molding
- In-mold decoration and labeling
- Quality and process trained operators
- Full-time mold makers on staff
- Preventive maintenance systems
- In-house tool repair, refurbishment and maintenance
Keeping the Pressure on for Flawless Production
Xten utilizes the eDart System from RJG, Inc. as a critical component of its quality assurance program. eDart’s automatic identification and rejection of substandard parts ensures the only units ever shipped to the customer meet specification. In addition, eDart minimizes scrap, helping hold down costs and prices.
eDart also generates a record of the molding parameters achieved for every part produced on a connected press. Xten maintains this empirical evidence, validating that each part shipped met specifications when created. Customers whose parts might be subjected to performance appraisals can have confidence that any production analysis will have positive results.
New Equipment is Not Always in the Customer’s Best Interest.
Frankly, Xten’s factory floor is not a showcase of the latest in injection molding equipment. Present is an assortment of presses, many refurbished, that produce products meeting customer specifications, and billed at rates that we, unlike those operating with a majority of new but frequently idle machines, don’t have to inflate.
This principle of “machine modesty” frees us from having to force work onto expensive but inappropriate machinery just because it’s what we own, giving us the financial flexibility to consider acquiring additional equipment when the size, complexity or opportunity of a project warrants.
Current Resources
Xten is currently operating with 29 molding machines with clamping forces from 85 to 2000 tons and shot sizes between 4 and 360 ozs. Also on the factory floor are multiple robots, RJG-Edart process monitors and precision blenders.
