Fast tooling for pre-series and small batches

Fast Tooling lets you produce moulded plastic parts quickly, without facing the cost of a production mould straight away. It is the ideal way to validate geometry, materials, assemblies and functional performance before series production.
By bringing together professional 3D printing, engineering design and industrial moulding know-how, we make rapid tooling, inserts and pilot moulds that carry the project from prototyping to pre-series. The process uses a reusable modular aluminium mould base with custom 3D printed inserts, so the tool adapts quickly to different geometries.

The inserts are printed in a high-temperature ceramic resin — MARCA DLP CERAMIC-01, heavily ceramic-filled, with HDT above 280 °C at 0.45 MPa. How many parts an insert will take depends on the geometry of the component and on the material being moulded: unfilled thermoplastics — PP, PE, PS, ABS, TPE and TPU — wear it down slowly; filled or reinforced materials and engineering polymers moulded at high temperature, such as PC and fibre-reinforced PA and PBT, wear it down far more quickly. The order of magnitude is a few tens of parts per insert, and a few hundred with multiple inserts; typical tolerances are around ±0.2 mm, wider than those of a steel mould. The advantage is neither the number of parts nor the precision, but the material: you mould with the same thermoplastic intended for production, and that allows technical checks 3D printing cannot give.