WESLEY CHAPEL, FLA. — Plastic Components Inc. has earned its reputation as an automated molder of high-volume parts. So it was a big change when PCI officials decided to break into prototype molds.

Prototype mold makers are adopting 3-D printers to make injection mold tooling capable of turning out parts in standard machines with standard resins. While the printers have some limitations, ...

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While it’s the ideal choice for mass production, injection molding is simply no good for prototyping. The molds are expensive and time-consuming make, so unless you’ve got the funding to burn tens of ...

A team at Budapest University has successfully created a functional injection mold for prototyping by using a Stratasys 3D printer. Prototype injection molds are expensive. They are typically machined ...

First Mold, an injection molding and rapid tooling specialist, is moving its prototype division closer to its Gangkou Industrial Park facility to solve problems related to production inefficiencies.

The Online Quoter that was created by First Mold negates these issues. The system was created in an easy-to-use and user-friendly manner, such that the users can upload 3D files and obtain immediate ...