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What is Silicone Rubber

What is Silicone Rubber and what is it used for?   What is silicone rubber? Silicone Rubber is a high ...

Protecting and masking delicate precision metalwork during media blasting

How to protect and mask delicate precision metalwork during media blasting processes in aerospace applications One aspect of the work ...
Bespoke Silicone Rubber Moulding

Creating bespoke silicone rubber moulding for manufacturing case study

Case Study: Creating a bespoke silicone rubber moulding to speed up manufacturing Sometimes, when a client comes to us with a unique problem ...

Manufacturing using 3D Printing – Roll on the Revolution!

How will manufacturers benefit from 3d printing? Most of us have known about the advent of 3D printing for a ...

UK Inventors of the BAKEWELL Silicone Rubber Powder Coating Plug

Inventing the BAKEWELL Silicone Rubber Powder Coating Plug It may be a cliché that need is the mother of invention ...

Case Study: Generator Application

AFAC makes a point of trying to offer each and every one of its customers the service they're looking for—and ...

AFAC taking flight in the 1980s

As a keen engineer with a love of all things aeronautical, it was never going to be long before Lee ...

Turning back the AFAC clock

It’s been 34 years since Lee Mullins established a fledgling business in his spare bedroom. Now AFAC is about to ...

Top Tips for Successful Metal Finishing using Powder Coating

Expert guidance for achieving the best results from Powder Coating For a flawless but cost effective finish, powder coating has ...

Welcome back: Ryan Mullins returns to AFAC

More than 34 years have passed since Ryan Mullins remembers his father setting up a business in the spare bedroom ...

Solving customer problems with bespoke design and production of silicone rubber mouldings.

The Problem When one of our customers, manufacturing parts for a military vehicle, had a masking problem, they called on ...

Design & Manufacture – Special Parts moulded and extruded to specification

How it begins At A.F.A.C., we often are asked by customers how to solve a particular problem they have. Once ...