Rapid Tooling for Plastic Injection Molding

What is Rapid Tooling ?

Rapid tooling is often referred to as prototype tooling, bridge tooling, or soft tooling. Rapid tooling is a crucial step on the path to production. Its definition of tooling involves manufacturing used to create products, such as rapid injection molds, rapid die-cast molds, sheet metal prototype molds, quick and easy jigs and fixtures, and other custom tooling parts. Creating rapid tooling to conduct trial production of hundreds or even thousands of parts before mass production is a very useful step for design optimization, functional testing, or pre-production verification.

Rapid Toolmaking Process

Your rapid mold tools are made with high-quality Aluminum, Soft Steel, P20, Nak80 or H13 tool steels. We use imported multi-axis CNC mills, grinders and EDM machines to create complex geometries with multiple surface finishes, from the highest optical polishes to matte and everything in between. Our partnership with Guhring of Germany ensures that only the finest cutting tools are used to maximize speed while holding tight tolerances in any material.

 
Why Choose SUPERIOR for Rapid Tooling ?

At present, most of suppliers manufacture prototypes of products mainly through 3D printing, vacuum casting, and CNC machining. With the increase of the quantity of trial production, the prototype manufacturing faces some problems such as disassembly processing affecting strength (especially for the undercuts), and differences in material composition resulting in products that cannot achieve the performance of common engineering materials. 

 

But now, we established a department speciallizing in rapid tooling for plastic injection. It has the advantages of fast lead time and low mould cost, and uses the common engineering materials on the market such as ABS, PP, POM, PA66, ABS+PC, etc. This can fully meet the performance testing and high quality prototypes of small batch trial production (less than 500 PCS).