Plastic molded or encapsulated components are of increasing importance due to rising requirements for smaller, lighter, and more compact designs with cost efficient pricing. Wherever mechanics and electronic meet, electromechanical components can be used in a multitude of applications, such as in automotive, communications, appliance, and consumer electronics engineering.

In automotive applications such components are used in ever increasing volumes. In hybrid housings electronic components are integrated into components for increasingly more complex engine management functions. Strip-molded contact parts are for example used for seat adjustment, and airbag sensors; assembled contact parts are important functional components among others for memory mirror positioning units.