Injection Molding

The Rapid Injection Moulding Niche

The Protomold Rapid Injection Moulding process gives design engineers a fast and affordable way to get real injection moulded parts in prototype or low-volume quantities. We work with advanced aluminium alloys and high-speed CNC machining; no steel or expensive custom engineering. Our process features an unprecedented degree of standardization and automation, which is how we deliver injection moulded parts faster, and more economically than ever before possible.

This allows us to support prototyping, bridge tooling or low-volume production requirements of our customers as noted below.

Prototyping. Rapid prototyping processes are great for testing form and fit, but many times FDM, SLA and the others are no substitute for testing with real injection moulded parts. With Protomold, you can get prototype injection moulded parts for as little as £1195 and in as little as 3 days (for a premium). Fast and cost effective enough to fix problems if the first design is not quite right. (I know, this never happens!)
Bridge Tooling. When your production tooling won't be ready for another 3 or 4 months, it's great to have a way to make those 100, 1000 or 10,000 parts for pilot production or market testing. When you "Prototype with Protomold," your bridge tooling is ready to go with no additional cost or delay.
Production. If your volume requirements don't justify expensive steel production tooling, Protomold can supply production parts to meet your full requirements. Multicavity aluminium moulds can be very cost effective, and upon request Protomold can guarantee the tools for the life of your project.

So from an overall market perspective we see Rapid Injection Moulding as in between Rapid Prototyping and Conventional Injection moulding as illustrated in the figure below