Injection Molds For Fast Prototyping
We work on prototypes a lot. Sometimes our clients and their customers expect more from the appearance of the 3D printed prototypes. Right emotions are especially critical for consumer electronics and medical devices. Since we have our manufacturing facility, we use CNC milling or aluminum molds to produce beautiful enclosures and other plastic parts. These prototyping processes involve metalwork and can not be attributed to classical, rapid prototyping technologies. Still, they allow us to provide the desired result quickly and much cheaper instead of developing full-fledged molds.
In the case of CNC milling, we use engineering plastics similar in properties to ones that will be used in mass production. Our technologists create a CNC machining program based on the 3D model and design additional jigs and fixtures needed to manufacture the product parts. CNC machining as rapid prototyping is a long and expensive process, but investment in such a prototype will be less than manufacturing molds or other technological toolings for mass production. We have three types of milling machines at our manufacturing site: 3-axis, 3+2, and full 5-axis. We can work with steel, aluminum, polyamide, fluoroplastics, high molecular weight polyethylene, polycarbonate, plywood, foamed plastics, sheet plastics, and cardboard.
Sometimes milling can not be used because of the design of the product parts, or sometimes the Client needs not one but several prototypes. In such cases, we offer to produce "fast" aluminum molds. Such molds are designed to minimize the cost of manufacturing. Their wear resistance is designed for manufacturing 50-1000 prototype parts. In this case, we use a standard load-bearing plate package designed for our injection molding machine.
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