Ultrasonic welding is a popular choice for welding together moulded plastic parts within a wide range of components and industries. Joining these parts together with bolts and solder, or using adhesives to do so, is not as effective as most manufacturers would like, and quite often it does not look great either as the finished article, with messy, visible joints. The best way to ensure a strong join that looks great is through ultrasonic welding. This is especially popular within the world of mattress manufacturing, specifically within medical industries and where there is a need for healthcare technologies that are robust and suffer from heavy and consistent use over time. 

Ultrasonic welding is a technique that relies on ultrasonic vibration to weld two parts together to create a whole. This is a technique as an alternative to using heat to join things together. The ultrasonic welding instead uses mechanical vibration energy that causes the material in question to deform and create a solid-state weld. 

What applications is ultrasonic welding used within?

There are a wide and varied selection of industries and sectors where ultrasonic welding is popular due to its qualities of finish and robustness, no more so than within the textile industry and healthcare technologies sector, with the manufacturing of strong medical mattresses a prime example of where ultrasonic welding has been incredibly useful in recent years. Other industries and sectors where ultrasonic welding is used to great effect include the computer electronics industry. Medical industry, aerospace, automotive industry, consumer products, and the packaging and manufacturing sector.

What are you looking for in mattress manufacturing?

Of course, different industries and different uses of mattress will require different features, but on the whole you are looking for spinal support and pressure relief to a high and consistent standard with any mattress. Creating mattresses that don’t sag, that are manufactured in a quality fashion that mean that they last for a long period of time to the same quality, is important. This is especially the case within the healthcare sector where there is heavy and consistent use of mattresses for long periods of time, if you consider a hospital bed for example, or the mattresses used within a care home where patient and resident care may require constant bed use. 

Advantages of ultrasonic welding

Alongside the fact ultrasonic welding can be used on a range of material types, there are a few good reasons why it has gained popularity as a manufacturing technique and process. It is fast and accurate, speeding up the manufacturing process significantly. It is also incredibly safe when compared with other welding techniques, as the energy from ultrasonic welding is highly targeted producing minimal thermal impact on the material and limiting the chances of excess heat spilling and damaging the surrounding material and equipment. Ultrasonic welding is reliable, offers great flexibility in what you can achieve, reduces the cost of materials and labour, whilst also providing the highest quality of joint, giving you a clean and precise joint on any component or larger piece being worked on.