DWE helps evaluate and select materials based on your product’s performance, manufacturing, environmental, and compliance requirements.
Material Selection
Compatibility
Certifications
Specialty Materials
DWE isn’t limited to a predetermined list of plastic materials.
Instead, our engineers start by understanding what your product needs to accomplish, then evaluate materials based on the demands of the application and manufacturing process.
Our experience ranges from commodity thermoplastics to engineering polymers, high-performance materials, filled and reinforced polymers, and specialty compounds.
Material decisions can affect everything from manufacturability and dimensional stability to long-term product performance. Our engineers help evaluate those variables before production begins.
Evaluate material options based on performance requirements, manufacturability, environment, production needs, and cost.
Consider how polymers interact with inserts, electronics, other materials, and environmental conditions within the finished product.
Support projects requiring material documentation, certification, and traceability as part of their quality or regulatory requirements.
Apply DWE’s plastics engineering and defense experience to evaluate materials for products designed for demanding chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive environments.
Different applications demand different material properties. DWE has the flexibility to work across a broad range of material categories rather than restricting your project to a preferred resin list.
That flexibility is especially valuable when you’re:
Cost-effective materials for applications with more conventional performance requirements.
Materials designed to provide greater strength, durability, and performance.
Advanced polymers for demanding temperature, environmental, or performance requirements.
Materials incorporating reinforcing agents or fillers to achieve specific performance characteristics.
Specialized formulations for applications that can’t be addressed with conventional materials.
Selecting a resin isn’t just about comparing properties on a datasheet.
Part geometry, tooling, molding conditions, inserts, tolerances, secondary operations, and the product’s operating environment can all influence how a material performs.
DWE’s engineering team considers those factors together to help identify a material that can meet the application’s requirements and be manufactured reliably.
That support can include:
Developing a new plastic product
Replacing an existing material
Working in demanding environments
Integrating multiple materials or inserts
Experiencing premature product failures
Evaluating filled or specialty compounds
Preparing a design for injection molding
When a component is designed for a demanding defense or protective application, material performance can become mission-critical.
DWE has a long history of supporting U.S. defense programs and applying engineering, testing, and manufacturing expertise to challenging plastic components.
For CBRNE-related products, our team can collaborate with customers to evaluate material requirements alongside the component design and manufacturing process—helping develop a solution around the performance the application demands.
Choosing the material is only part of the process. For demanding applications, its performance may also need to be evaluated within the finished component.
DWE can support development and validation efforts to understand how material, design, tooling, and manufacturing variables affect product performance.
That engineering-led approach helps reduce risk before transitioning into repeatable production.
We don’t want your product requirements dictated by what happens to be on our resin list.
DWE combines plastics engineering, broad material experience, and manufacturing expertise to help find a practical solution around your application.
Material recommendations driven by the application.
Technical expertise throughout development and production.
Specialty Material Experience
From standard thermoplastics to filled and custom compounds.
Prototype Through Production
Material support that carries from development into manufacturing.
Whether you’re starting with a new design, transferring production, or trying to get more life from existing injection mold tooling, bring us the challenge.
Our engineering and production teams will help determine the right path to reliable production.