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Focus on
Plastics

Based on real-life production facilities, Focus on
Plastics successfully brings industry into the
classroom.

Each topic has an animation of the process
together with detailed information and photographs.

Featured Processes:
• blow moulding
• calendering
• compression moulding
• extrusion
• injection moulding
• line bending
• rotational moulding
• vacuum forming

Focus on
Metals

Covering the main techniques involved in
manufacturing metal based products, Focus on
Metals successfully brings industrial processes
into the classroom.

Each topic contains an animation of the process, detailed
information, video clips and photos, which can be printed out or
pasted into other applications.

Processes Include:
• sand casting
• drilling Jigs
• die casting
• spinning
• investment casting
• welding
• presswork
• CNC
• punching Online version: included as
• sheet metal bending machining part of the DT Resource Pack
• plasma cutting of sheet metal on pages 10-11.

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