Industry Expertise

  • Deep understanding of automotive market
  • Pain points
  • Decoration placement & durability requirements
  • Industry trends

Superior Decoration

  • Designed to meet needs for
  • Easy changeovers
  • Low scrap
  • Consistent decoration even with challenging foils or substrates.

Turn-Key Systems

  • Newest technology for part movement, safety and ease of use
  • In-house die & tooling manufacturing for simplified production

Applications

Total Solution for Automotive Part Decoration

Automated systems, tooling & consumables

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Interior

Automotive companies trust United Silicone for superior interior automotive part decoration. Our highly specialized tooling and nesting fixtures allow for easier set up and greatly simplified changeovers.

Typical applications include:

  • Seat Belts
  • Sun Visors
  • Carpets/Mats
  • Air Bag Logo Debossing Panels
  • Dash Clusters
  • Trunk Latches

Additionally- through our sister company Trans Tech  we can provide pad print decoration of knobs, controls, displays, gear/shift plates and trunk latches

Exterior

Exterior automotive part decoration requirements vary widely from application to application. United Silicone has expertise in high tonnage systems for rubber decoration as well as standard and customized systems for trim, license plate and grills.

 Typical applications include:

  • Tires
  • Mud flaps
  • Exterior Trim
  • License Plate
  • Grills

Additionally- through our sister company Trans Tech  we can provide pad print decoration of medallions/badges, light pipes, fuel caps and light lens covers.

Dashboard

We specialize in custom tooling sets (nesting fixtures and contoured dies) to simplify the hot stamping of complex contours that automotive dashboards require.  Our expertise working with challenging foils allows us to offer solutions that will reduce scrap & streamline changeovers.

Typical applications include:

  • Dash Clusters

Additionally- through our sister company Trans Tech we can provide pad print decoration of USB/Sync logos.

Underhood

United Silicone´s machine configurations and size options allow for optimal foil application on engine covers, battery housings and fill caps.  The tooling sets we provide simplify changeovers and reduce set up time while providing consistent decoration on high temperature plastics.

Typical applications include:

Dedicated Products & Services

Foil Feed Options

  • Tailored foil feed options
  • More efficient use of challenging thick foils

Customized Tooling

  • Enables simplified changeovers while reducing both downtime and scrap.

Specialized Dies

  • High precision silicone and metal dies deliver consistent decoration
  • Tight tolerances even on unique shapes

Hot Stamp Decoration for Automotive Parts

Heat Transfer Decoration for Automotive Parts

Considerations

Automotive Decoration Challenges

We understand the challenges commonly associated with automotive part decoration. United Silicone´s customer or technical support staff can provide:

Optimized Efficiency

  • Tooling to ease changeover down time & reduce scrap
  • Automation for enhanced production flow & reduced overhead labor costs
  • Mold side capabilities to keep product throughput seamless

Challenging Surfaces

  • Part finish including painted plastic and surface textures

We would love to learn more about your automotive decoration challenge