Competitive Strengths

• Specialised manufacturer of injection moulded plastic parts
• Well-established business relationships with customers
• Experienced key management
• Commitment to quality and the environment

Specialised manufacturer of injection moulded plastic parts

• Takatronics is a specialised manufacturer of injection moulded plastic parts. Employing a flexible manufacturing system, Takatronics is able to produce a wide range of plastic parts from small, lightweight multi-cavity plastic components to [complex, multi-shot heavyweight products] [yes]. The flexible manufacturing system also allows the Company to cater for changes in either the volume of production or the parts being manufactured, thereby improving productivity and reducing machine idle time

• As part of its value proposition, Takatronics also provides the value-added services during the prototyping stage:
  • Product design assistance including the development and production of the mould to be used in the injection moulding process including validation on mould design and injection moulding process, assembly and packaging
  • Advise on the selection of materials for the plastic parts

• The value-added service differentiates Takatronics by enabling it to take a proactive role at the early stages of its customers’ product design and development cycles, in particular for new product lines. Such early involvement enables Takatronics to better understand its customers’ needs and to provide practical, innovative solutions to the customers with a view to minimising costs and improving the functionality and quality of their products

Experienced key management

• Takatronics is headed by its co-founder and Executive Director, Mr Lai Weng Pew, who has around 15 years experience in the plastic injection industry.  The company is also backed by a strong management team with varied  experience in the injection moulding industry

Commitment to quality and the environment

• Takatronics is committed to  continually improving the effectiveness of its quality management system in accordance with industry best practices. In 2016, Takatronics obtained the ISO 9001 : 2015 certification which provides assurance to its customers on the company’s intent for continual improvement, defects prevention and reduction of variation and waste.

• Takatronics is considering to apply for ISO 14001 for environmental responsibilities as a plastic components manufacturer.

Revenue Stream

• Manufacture of injection moulded plastic parts
• Provision of other ancillary services eg silk-screen printing, hot-stamping, assembly and spray painting

Business Focus

• Contract manufacturer specialising in the manufacture of injection moulded plastic parts

• Takatronics specialises in the manufacturing of plastic components. The company also provides other ancillary services such as silk-screen printing, hot-stamping, assembly and spray painting

• Takatronics manufactures injection moulded plastic part by employing moulds that is fabricated by third parties for the production of the relevant plastic components.  An injection moulded plastic part is one of many plastic components that form for example, an electronic product and is produced by plastic resins via an injection moulding process. The moulded plastic parts could be further categorised as (i) a component part or (ii) an assembly of plastic parts assembled into a sub-assembly product

• Takatronics’ flexible manufacturing system enables it to manufacture a variety of plastic components of various products such as printers’ parts, telephone parts, auto gate parts, MP3 players, airbag system, earplugs and high heels amongst others

• The plastic injections moulds used by Takatronics for its plastic injection moulding process are fabricated by third parties.  Such moulds must be specifically engineered and fabricated with cavities to shape the plastic components in accordance with customers’ desired design, features and specifications.  However, Takatronics assists in providing advise on the design of the mould to be used in the injection moulding process

• The principal market of Takatronics is in Malaysia. Its customers comprise mainly producers of branded products (or their contract manufacturers). Takatronic’s industry sector experience ranges from electronics and electrical, automotive and consumer goods.

• The following flowchart illustrates Takatronics’ typical injection moulding processes once the mould has been approved and accepted by the customer and is ready for use:
  
  

Plastic injection moulding is the most commonly used process to mass produce plastic components with great accuracy. Plastic resin raw material in the form of granules is fed into a heated barrel until they are molten resin and injected under pressure to fill the mould cavities. The result is that the resin is exactly moulded to the shape of the cavity. Once the plastic moulded parts cool to a hardened state, the injection mould opens releasing the injection moulded part. The whole injection moulding process then repeats. Each cycle of an injection moulding process may take approximately 30 to 55 seconds. Moulded parts will either be packaged for storage and/or delivery, or may be required for further assembly before storage and/or delivery.