Insert Molding
Your System Partner for Plastic-Metal Connections
We unite decades of experience in metal processing and plastics technology under one roof. This unique combination allows us to offer unrivaled expertise in the manufacturing of metal-plastic hybrid connections (Insert Molding), guaranteeing maximum component integration and ultimate precision.
For production, inserts from our own metal manufacturing or components sourced from customers and suppliers—made of various metallic materials or plastic—are loaded into the injection molding machines by fully automatic handling systems and overmolded with plastic.
We guarantee process-reliable series implementation, compliant with the high standards of IATF 16949.
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Integrated Manufacturing System: Toolmaking and Forming Technology
We combine the entire value chain under one roof – precisely integrated and designed for serial production. Using our modern injection molding machines, we manufacture highly integrated hybrid components in medium and high volumes.
- Design and Toolmaking
We develop your component using a DFM-optimized approach and manufacture both stamping and injection molding tools in-house. This ensures short lead times, fast response times, and maximum dimensional accuracy. - Forming Technology and Hybrid Injection Molding
Metal inserts are produced directly on site and immediately overmolded. No logistics, no waiting times, and no interface risks. - Assembly and Quality Inspection
Upon request, we supply complete assemblies – including surface finishing, assembly, and 100% final inspection – delivered directly to your production line.
Scope of Services: Insert Molding and Overmolding
We produce highly integrated hybrid components that seamlessly combine robustness, precision, and functional integration – supported by our excellent in-house toolmaking. This ensures that contacts and inserts are positioned accurately and free from distortion. Our core competencies in detail:
- Insert Technology (Insert Molding): Precise overmolding of stamped and formed parts, contacts, bushings, threaded inserts, or thermal management modules – including solutions for media-tight connections.
- 2K Hybrid Combination: Hybrid technology combined with two-shot injection molding in a single process step – for example, to directly mold seals or damping elements onto the metal-plastic composite.
Industry Solutions: Plastic Injection Molding with Metal Inserts
As an established manufacturing partner, we supply companies across a wide range of technology-driven industries.
Our stamped components are used wherever precision, cost efficiency, and process reliability are critical – from the automotive industry to electrical engineering.
Typical application areas for our components include:
- Automotive Industry, e.g. sensor housings, connectors, control unit housings.
- Ventilation and Air Conditioning Technology, e.g. hybrid impellers, bearing bushings, complex housings.
- Measurement and Control Technology, e.g. hybrid sensor housings, media-tight connections.
- Electrical Industry, e.g. contact assemblies, PCB housings, connectors.
- Mechanical and Plant Engineering, e.g. media-carrying components, high-load connection elements, functionally integrated assemblies.
Manufacturing Solutions for Metal Replacement and Functional Integration
Many assemblies that are currently manufactured using complex fastening, bonding, or fully metallic designs can be produced more efficiently through intelligent insert molding. We specifically analyze your assemblies for substitution potential.
This means:
- Weight reduction (metal replacement): Solid metal parts are selectively replaced with high-performance plastics while maintaining the same mechanical strength.
- Elimination of assembly steps: Connections are formed directly within the injection molding process rather than through subsequent fastening operations.
- Improved sealing performance: Media-tight bonding of metal and plastic without the need for additional sealing elements.
- Consistent quality: Elimination of assembly-related errors through an integrated manufacturing process.
The result is highly precise hybrid components suitable for serial production, reducing assembly costs while increasing product quality.
Your Project with Werner Schmid: Hybrid Components in Serial Production
Whether complex sensor assemblies, media-tight housings, or robust metal replacement solutions – we support you from development and toolmaking through to serial production.
➡️ Send us your specifications today. We guarantee a prompt and technically sound response to your project inquiry.