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Manufacturing facilities
The ACSI plant near Pune, India, ensures
quality through conformance to standards such as QS 9000 and ISO
9001 and the use of techniques such as 5S, Kaizen and Kanban. It
uses a wide range of equipment for the moulding of SMC, including:
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SMC
compression moulding CNC hydraulic presses |
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Non-IBR
steam generators |
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Screw type air compressors |
It also has modern testing equipment
to assure the quality of the final product, including:
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Glass content / filler content testing |
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Burning test to check fibre orientation
/ flow |
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Air entrapment testing |
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Thickening behaviour testing |
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Specific gravity testing |
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Moisture content by testing |
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Heat ageing |
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Surface weight testing |
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Paint adhesion testing |
The presses are CNC-controlled and have
20-micron accuracy - JIS-1, and parallelism control — Class
A finish.
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