FAQs

General Questions

  • We can look at it if you send us the CAD file.
  • We can even quote the part for you as it is now, but this price may change with design changes.
  • We’ll also need to know how many units you’ll need per year and whether you expect this to grow.
  • Manufacturing is the easy part, Selling, distributing and growing companies is the hard part.
  • It’s a small industry and word travels quickly of bad actors.
  • We have a Non-Disclosure Agreement which will legally bind us to protecting your idea.
  • It depends on where you are with your project.
  • Part design often takes a few weeks, Tool Design takes 2 weeks and Tool Build may take up to 12 weeks or longer.
  • If in doubt call us, we’ll explain your own timeline and budget for more time than you need.
  • Think of prototyping as an insurance policy, it will save you big bucks if something is wrong.
  • Finding problems with your design early and quickly can rule out more expensive back tracking later.
  • Your clients and stakeholders will love to see the part in the flesh before it’s made.
  • Each injection mould is a custom-made piece of machinery, made just for you.
  • Every Injection moulding machine now has a heating system, cooling system, automatic injection and ejection systems and are design to last hundreds of thousands to millions of cycles.
  • We can’t tell you exactly, but from our experience we’re looking at upwards of $10,000 minimum. This cost will increase as your product becomes larger and more complex.
  • Yes, we certainly can but we need a few details.
  • Send us the CAD file and tool details.
  • A critical piece of information is the cycle time, if you can send us that we can give you an accurate price of how much it would cost us to mould it.

Others Questions

  • 120.00/hour
  • We can register your design with IP Australia, and we can create Patent Drawings, but anything more than that you’ll need a Patent Attorney. We can recommend one to you.
  • A good Idea
  • We can do simple product renders. It is charged by the hour.
  • Yes, we will never try to let your production go down for longer than necessary but we can’t really assess how long a repair will take without seeing the tool first.
  • How long is a piece of string?
  • We really can’t say with knowing exactly how your product works. Injection Moulding is great for labour saving and repeatable quality, but it does have its drawbacks and limitations. We can go through these, but we need to see your part first.
  • Probably yes, unless you are okay with the risk in not prototyping.
  • Maybe not, but that’s the point.
  • How long is a piece of string?
  • A heat treated European grade H13 Steel tool are guaranteed to last at least 700,000 shots. We’ve had clients run a million shots per year for 10 years with our tools. Your grandchildren will inherit them.
  • No there are different grades and hardness’s of steels. Hard steels tend to last longer but are more difficult to machine and heat treat.
  • Heat treatment is a process done after a steel has been cut and machined to change the structure of the steel metallurgically. By Heating and cooling steel, you can change the grain structure of the steel itself.
  • We mould just about any type of plastic. We tend to use common consumer and engineering grades of plastic as these are most cost effective to our clients.
  • An engineering grade of plastic, like 30% glass filled Nylon can have tensile strengths that rival steel. There’s a plastic that can just about be as good as any other material. However, the more specialised the material, the more expensive it will be.
  • Yes, we can mould soft PVC, polyurethanes and Thermoplastic Elastomers, which are all soft plastic materials.
  • Never, most tools in our workshop are owned by other companies just like yours. If we ever used a client’s tool for someone else, we would stand to lose a lot more than what we can make.
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