Technical parts to meet your specific challenges
Household appliances incorporate components sensitive to shocks, vibrations, temperature variations, and humidity. However, when faced with these specific challenges, standardized solutions sometimes show their limitations or can restrict equipment performance.
To address these issues, Knauf Industries supports you in the manufacturing of custom technical parts for household appliances. As specialists in the field, we understand the challenges you face and can therefore design equipment that meets your specific needs:
- Protection of sensitive components against shocks and micro-vibrations;
- Reduction of overall equipment weight;
- Improved thermal and acoustic insulation;
- Seamless integration into your systems;
- Optimization of production and logistics costs.
The parts we design can be adapted to fit both large household appliances (washing machines, refrigerators) and small appliances.
Custom design with our co-development service
Do you have specific technical constraints? Our teams support you from the initial stages of your project. Our design office and R&D center offer a co-development process specifically tailored to cover all your needs and ensure that your technical parts are designed to meet your exacting standards:
- Analysis of your technical and functional requirements;
- Co-design and definition of specifications;
- 3D modeling and performance simulation;
- Prototyping and validation;
- Testing (mechanical, thermal, and vibration resistance);
- Industrialization and production launch.
Technical parts designed for household appliances
Technical parts for household appliances must meet demanding requirements related to transport, handling, and the operating environment. With these challenges in mind, we develop components that help absorb shocks during transport and handling, while also reducing vibrations that could affect appliance performance.
Our design approach also takes long-term use into account. Depending on your requirements, our technical parts can be engineered to withstand temperature variations and humidity, while reinforcing critical areas such as corners, bases, and mounting points.
Drawing on our expertise in density control and part design, we tailor the mechanical properties of each component to the different stress areas of your equipment.
Materials for your technical components
EPP
Expanded polypropylene (EPP) is ideal for applications where robustness is not just an advantage, but a requirement for component development. It offers:
- Excellent resistance to shocks and repeated impacts;
- High vibration absorption capacity;
- Long-term durability;
- Flexibility suitable for complex technical components.
EPP is ideal for components subjected to significant mechanical stress or requiring a long service life.
EPS
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a benchmark material for manufacturing technical components in household appliances. Composed of 98% air, it is distinguished by:
- Its lightness, which reduces the weight of equipment;
- Its excellent shock absorption capacity;
- Its thermal insulation properties;
- Its rigidity, suitable for structural areas.
EPS improves the energy efficiency of products while reducing transportation costs and environmental impact.
Why choose Knauf Industries?
Choosing Knauf Industries for the manufacture of custom technical parts for household appliances means relying on an industrial partner capable of supporting you throughout your entire value chain.
We offer recognized expertise in molded foam materials (EPS, EPP), custom design capabilities tailored to your specific needs, and comprehensive support from design to production.
Understanding your challenges, we also ensure that we design parts that allow you to optimize your logistics and industrial costs while benefiting from our eco-design approach.
Thanks to our innovative approach and process mastery, we develop high-performance, reliable, and durable technical parts, perfectly suited to the requirements of the household appliance sector.
FAQ
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Expanded polypropylene (EPP) is particularly valued for its high resistance to repeated shocks, excellent vibration absorption and durability. It is ideal for components exposed to significant mechanical stress or requiring a long lifespan.
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Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is recommended when lightweight, thermal insulation and rigidity are requirements. It is especially suitable for structural components.
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Yes. Thanks to our advanced design tools such as 3D modeling and simulation, technical parts can be precisely engineered to fit complex shapes and integrate seamlessly into existing systems.
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Our co-development process includes several stages: analysis of your requirements, co-design, 3D modeling, prototyping, testing and industrialization.