For builders of purpose-built machines and lines
You are building a line to order and the customer wants one welded joint in it. Learning a technology, buying a generator and finding somebody to make the tool is not worth it for one operation in one line. We supply a finished welding unit including the tool, with documentation and service, and you build it in like any other station.
A welding unit built into your own line runs EUR 10,000 to 20,000, stand-alone machines start at EUR 40,000. You get a figure for your own part within 48 hours.
What you get from us
We never mention your brief or your customer anywhere.
We have been supplying machines for welding plastics and lines for blister packaging to Czech and Slovak plants since 2005. A fair amount gets learned in that time, and it is exactly what you get from us before you get a quote. Among our customers:
You sell a line. We supply one station in it, and in a way that means you never have to think about it.
The hardest item in your quote tends to be the one you have no way of costing. Send a drawing of the part and a target cycle time and within 48 hours you have a range you can work with.
We are not the agent of one brand, so we will not bend the design of your line around what we happen to have. If a different technology suits your joint, we say so straight away.
We weld samples on your part before you build the unit in. The parameters the joint has to meet are written into the supply, so you know what you are handing on.
Welding is one station among many. Before it stand the moulding machine, a robot taking out the mouldings, the component feed and assembly. After it come the leak test, laser marking and a conveyor with finished parts.
You build the line, the handling and the overall control. We supply the station shown in red: a welding unit with a tool for your part, the interface and the documentation.
Usually you call when the enquiry is already on your desk and the quote is due. So the first thing you need is not a catalogue, it is a number.
A drawing or a photo of the part, the material, the number of welds and the required cycle time are enough. Within 48 hours you have a price range for the unit and the tool, plus installation dimensions you can draw around. The exact price comes once the brief is settled, but by then your quote is already out.
If the line eventually goes to a customer in Slovakia or elsewhere in Europe, nothing changes. The module arrives wherever you build it.
What to send us:
Your brief is yours. We do not deal with your customer and we mention them nowhere.
The first row is the one that concerns you. The rest is there in case the customer ends up wanting a whole machine.
| What you are buying | Scope of supply | Rough range |
|---|---|---|
| Plastics welding: unit for your own line | the technology alone, without a frame | EUR 10,000 - 20,000 |
| Plastics welding: simplest machine | one weld, manual loading | EUR 40,000 - 60,000 |
| Plastics welding: usual machine | two to four weld points | EUR 60,000 - 120,000 |
| Plastics welding: more demanding part | eight or more weld points | EUR 120,000 - 180,000 |
| Blister packaging: sealing machine | you buy the trays ready-made | EUR 40,000 - 80,000 |
| Blister packaging: forming and sealing | you form the trays yourself | EUR 90,000 - 180,000 |
| Complete purpose-built line | assembly, welding, marking and part testing, or a full blister line | EUR 150,000 - 400,000 |
| Replacement tool for a machine you already have | another shape of the same product | a few thousand to tens of thousands of EUR |
The table covers both halves of what we supply: machines for welding plastics and lines for blister packaging. Prices are for a machine including one tool. Nobody can give you an exact figure before they know the brief. For a first calculation this is enough. What moves the price of your machine most
The joints most often made in lines, drawn in cross section. Each one also says why another technology does not suit it.
Automotive
The two halves are vibration welded. The weld has to stay tight under pressure and in heat, which is why a bonded joint does not last as long as the car maker requires.
Parts like these are joined with the technologies we supplyElectronics
Several parts are held together by formed studs alone. No screw, no nut and no assembly step that a person would otherwise have to do.
Parts like these are joined with the technologies we supplyMedical technology
The two halves are ultrasonically welded with the membrane clamped between them. The weld has to stay tight and must not release a single particle into the fluid.
Parts like these are joined with the technologies we supplyAnswers you do not usually find on a supplier's site.
The simplest stand-alone machine runs EUR 40,000 to 60,000. A usual machine with two to four welding points, EUR 60,000 to 120,000. A whole special purpose line with assembly, marking and inspection can reach EUR 400,000.
What moves the price most is the number of welding points, the cycle time you need and the size of the part. In that order.
Because we pick the technology to suit your part, not to suit a brand. If one name stood on the site, it would look as though we sell one brand and one technology.
We go through the particular manufacturer with you in person, once it is clear what your part needs.
Five to eight months from order. If you need to be producing in January, the order has to be signed roughly a year ahead and you need the quote on the table earlier still.
That is why it is worth getting in touch while you are still negotiating the contract, not once you have signed it.
You call us first and in most cases the fault is settled over the phone. Newer machines can be diagnosed remotely.
Most spare parts you buy from an ordinary local wholesaler, because they are standard relays, contactors and switches. When an engineer is needed, they come from the manufacturer and already know which part to bring.
Sometimes it does not and we will tell you so straight away. At a few thousand pieces a year a machine at EUR 40,000 will not pay for itself.
In that case we point you to where to look for simpler equipment or who to subcontract the part to. There is no sense selling you something that will stand idle in your plant.
Yes, and most customers want to. Either at a company that runs the same machine, or at the manufacturer while your own machine is on the floor before shipping.
When the dates do not line up, we do a video call from a machine that is running at that moment.
The machine usually stays and only the tooling changes. On products of a similar shape often only the inside of the tool changes, because the outer dimension stays the same.
A second and third tool therefore cost a fraction of the machine. We allow for that when choosing, so that the machine still serves what you will be making in five years.
Send the part and the cycle time. Within 48 hours you have a price range and installation dimensions, free and with no strings.
Better still, call. Five minutes on the phone will tell you more than the whole site. Petr Bernard answers it.
+420 777 981 981 info@tp-t.cz