Mantle-printed prototype tooling enables production-equivalent parts early in product development processes. Steel production-representative tooling allows for true functional prototyping, manufacturing validation, trials, and certification.
Test confidently, knowing that even your most challenging materials – including PEEK, Acetal, Radel, heavily filled, and even metal – were made from production-representative tools.
Tools produced with Mantle are fabricated from industry-standard, tried, and trusted tool steels that are proven to last millions of mold cycles, enabling them to be used in bridge and even production tooling applications.
Production representative tooling
H13 tool steel for millions of cycles
Polish, texture, and repair
By using tool steel prototype tooling during the development stage, manufacturers de-risk their production molding by testing and validating critical process parameters such as plastic shrink rate, cycle time, and cooling rate.
A global medical device manufacturer sought a solution to significantly reduce the time to prototype parts made with high-temperature plastic. Using Mantle, a cavity and core tool-steel inserts were printed in just over 2.5 days.
Westec Plastics used their Mantle metal 3D printer to print a set of H13 tool steel inserts for Gracon Manufacturing. Gracon Manufacturing was implementing a design change on a plastic part already in production, so needed to get tooling as quickly as possible to validate the design change.
