GE Plastics Unveils Japan Technology Center at Moka Plant

10-Nov-2006

GE plastics announced the official opening of its new Japan Technology Center (JTC) located within its Moka City facility to provide Japanese customers with state-of-the-art application development capabilities. As one of the seven GE Global Application Technology (GApT) centers worldwide, the JTC will serve as a technical Center of Excellence for the automotive industry in the harnesses, pedestrian impact testing, and engine components areas, and the electronics industry in optical media such as Blu-ray discs, high heat resistance films, etc. The new facility occupies a three story, 3,700-sq.-meter building.

The first level of the JTC houses laboratories for plastics processing, automobile impact, and chemical analysis. The plastics processing laboratory shall provide advanced support for all aspects of plastics processing from review of drawings and tool design to development of new molding processes. Major equipment items include general-purpose injection molding machines, a wire encapsulation extrusion line, an optical disc molding machine, and specialized molding equipment that includes a Heat & Cool molding unit and a gas-assist molding unit.

The chemical analysis laboratory is equipped with various types of chemical analysis equipment and electron microscopes, and provides customers with plastic component analysis, as well as a data service.

The second floor of the JTC is devoted to providing services for physical property measurement and secondary processing. Various equipment is available to verify the quality, performance, service life, and durability of plastic final products, as well as optimal part design. For example, in the case of electrical wires, evaluation of the strength of final products and conducting tests at various standards is possible.

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