Market sector: Domestic appliances
Product: Protact® Pristine
Technology: Polymer Injection Forming Inventum has launched a new coffee and tea pad machine under the name Café Invento. When choosing the material for the Café Invento, Inventum, the Dutch brand owner of electrical domestic appliances and consumer electronics worked in unique collaboration with Corus. Protact® Pristine
Inventum wanted a sleek design that allows a premium positioning and pricing. Protact® Pristine could offer a fashionable metal look and ease of cleaning. Also, building on Corus’ experience in steel making and polymer coatings development a new product was developed with superb formability and scratch resistance. The basis being carbon steel, Protact® Pristine ensures a cost-competitive material solution. Novel joining technique: PIF
Also, Inventum and Corus decided to produce the coffee and tea maker with a novel joining technique: polymer-injection-forming (PIF). This technique, developed by Corus, allows to integrate the structural stiffness of steel and the versatility of polymer injection. Rather than assembling the appliance from separate steel and plastic parts, the design works with hybrid steel-plastic parts created by PIF. In so doing, PIF allows to: - reduce the volume of polymers by exploiting the structural stiffness of steel
- reduce the number of processing steps by directly injecting parts onto the steel
- reduce the number of moulds
Joint development
During the development process, Inventum’s designers worked closely together with Corus experts in Protact® and PIF. | 
