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Gracon Manufacturing works with Westec Plastics to rapidly produce metal 3D-printed injection mold tooling in H13 tool steel allowing Gracon to accelerate product development.
Westminster Tool used Mantle’s metal 3D printer to print a complex H13 insert for Xpress7, saving weeks and thousands of dollars with the ability to print deep, thin rib features that would have required extensive sinker EDM work to produce traditionally.
Learn how Tessy Plastics, a global contract manufacturer, has been using Mantle 3D-printed inserts in production. The inserts have proven to be just as accurate and durable as machined inserts from S7 steel – and are performing just as well after millions of cycles.
Nicolet Plastics, a full-service plastic injection molder in Wisconsin with extensive in-house toolmaking capabilities, adops Mantle’s metal 3D printing technology to produce mold cavity and core inserts using H13 tool steel in just days, significantly reducing both the lead time and cost associated with producing tooling.
Westec has adopted Mantle’s metal 3D printing technology to allow them to produce production ready mold cavity and core inserts in dramatically less time – in some cases, just days, as opposed to 10 to 12 weeks when outsourcing – than traditional manufacturing.
Moldmakers at Westminster Tool needed to create a prototype injection mold to produce sample medical parts in a highly glass-filled, bio-based PA11. 1. To do so in an affordable and timely manner, they turned to Mantle’s metal 3D printing
Fathom Manufacturing used Mantle’s metal 3D printing technology to reduce the time required to make a production injection mold tool for a medical device customer. Because of the complex nature of the tool’s cavity and core inserts
A global medical device manufacturer wanted to assess if a new metal 3D printing technology from Mantle could reduce lead times and costs to produce molds while meeting the demands of high-temperature, high-pressure plastic molding.
Learn how a global consumer appliance manufacturer reduced lead time by over 70% and cost by over 65%. The Mantle insert met production specifications for dimensional tolerance and surface finish without post-processing. It is still being used in production and has shown no difference in tool wear with a conventional insert.
Learn how a global medical device manufacturer reduced lead time by over 80% and cost by over 50%. Molding performance with high-temp plastics was equivalent to parts from conventionally manufactured tools. Held tolerances within 0.001” and met production specifications for surface finish without post-processing.