Custom injection molded parts.

You get a price per part, with the tooling shown apart when the part needs a mold. The unit price depends mainly on the size and wall thickness of the part, the resin, the number of cavities and the quantity: the more parts come off one mold, the less each one costs. Upload the STEP file and the 2D PDF drawing and you have the figure in 24–48 hours; asking for a quote commits you to nothing.

It depends on the size of the part, its geometry (undercuts add slides and lifters), the number of cavities, the surface finish and whether the mold is aluminum or hardened steel. Aluminum costs less and suits prototypes and bridge runs; steel costs more up front and is built for production. In the quote the mold is its own line, so you see what the mold costs and what each part costs.

The 3D model as a STEP file and the 2D drawing as a PDF. The model gives the geometry; the drawing carries what the model cannot say, such as tolerances, critical dimensions and surface finish. Material, colour, texture and quantity are chosen when you upload the part.

Between 24 and 48 hours from the moment you upload the files, with a price per part and the lead time of each one. If the part can’t be molded as drawn, we tell you the change it needs before anything is made.

We work from a single part to production runs. Below the quantity where a mold pays for itself, CNC machining is usually the better choice; above it, molding wins on price per part. Where that break-even sits depends on the part and the tool, and the break-even calculator on this page gives you a first idea. If your quantity doesn’t justify a mold, we say so and requote.

Yes. Pad printing, threaded inserts, overmolding and assembly are quoted and produced under the same order as the molding, and packaging can go in it too.

Production is in Europe and Asia. A mutual NDA is in place before you upload any file.

The mold is built for your part and it is yours; in the quote it appears as its own cost. It stays and runs in our shops and is not shipped, so every run comes from the tool you approved. If you need the terms on moving the mold, ask us before you accept the quote.

A prototype (or "bridge") tool is usually machined from aluminum — faster and cheaper to cut, good for anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand shots before wear shows in cosmetic surfaces. A production tool is hardened steel (typically P20 or H13), costs more and takes longer to build, but is rated for hundreds of thousands of shots with tighter, more repeatable tolerances over the life of the tool.

T1 is the first set of parts pulled off a newly cut mold, measured against your drawing before the tool is signed off. If a dimension is out of spec, the tool gets adjusted — steel added or removed from the cavity — and re-sampled (T2, T3…) until it passes. Nothing ships to production on an unvalidated tool.

It depends on the tooling material and the resin. Aluminum tools handle roughly hundreds to a few thousand shots before cosmetic wear; hardened steel tools are built for hundreds of thousands. Glass- or mineral-filled resins are abrasive and shorten cavity life faster than unfilled plastic, which is worth telling us before the tool is cut, not after.

Rarely as-is. CNC tolerates sharp internal corners, zero-draft walls and certain undercuts that a mold can't release without extra tooling (slides, lifters) or a redesign. The geometry usually needs a draft-angle and wall-uniformity pass first — see the DFM guide, or send the CNC file and we will flag exactly what needs to change.

Usually yes, after an adaptation pass. Printing tolerates geometry a mold can't fill or release — sharp internal corners, uneven walls, solid sections, undercuts — so a print-ready file rarely molds as drawn. Send it anyway: we price it for molding and flag that it'll need adapting; once you approve the quote, the DFM pass reworks the geometry with you — draft angles, uniform walls, ribs instead of solid volume — alongside the mold makers who'll actually build the tool, and the part still works and looks the way you designed it. And if your volume doesn't justify tooling yet, we'll say so and quote a printed batch or urethane casting instead.

A family mold cuts several different part cavities into one tool, so they run — and ship — together. It's cost-efficient when the parts are used in matched sets and need similar volumes, the way a housing, its trim and its clips share one tooling strategy. The tradeoff: if one cavity wears or breaks, the whole set is held up until it's fixed.

Both are usually a wall-thickness problem, not a whole-part problem. Sink marks show up opposite a rib, boss or thick section that cools slower than the wall around it; warping comes from uneven cooling or fiber orientation in glass-filled resin. The fix is almost always local — thin a rib, add cooling near a thick section — rather than a ground-up redesign.

Then it changes — before any tooling is cut. If your volume is too low to justify a mold, or your geometry fits CNC or sheet metal better, we say so upfront and requote under the right process. Asking for a quote commits you to nothing.