In the post COVID world, there’s a huge appetite for clever products that keep our world clean and safe.
Client
Axiene
What we did
Design advice for moulding.
Manufacture moulds for 9 plastic parts.
Sourcing components.
Injection mould.
Assembly.
Point-of-sale packaging.
Warehousing support.
Sector
Public Health
Outcome
Attractive, well-engineered and manufactured self-cleaning handle.
Our customer developed an innovative patent protected door handle that self-disinfects automatically and continually to be safe every time that it’s used.
This unique product presented numerous technical and manufacturing challenges which required true collaboration with our customer, the product design agency and manufacturing expertise from the Melton Plastics team.
At our first meeting, our customer had a working prototype, but it needed to be developed further as a true consumer product. Using our network of contacts, we put the client in touch with a major Scottish design company who re-designed the product making it suitable for injection moulding, developing the aesthetic appeal whilst keeping all the functionality.
The assembled door handle product includes a removable bottle containing the disinfecting fluid with a metal core and fixings, screws and bolts, and marketing labelling, all inside the clean touch surface casing. We worked with our client, sourcing some components ourselves, assembling and manufacturing the finished product.
