Plastic Injection Molding Service - Affordable Custom Parts
TEAM Rapid is one of the leading Chinese manufacturers that offer excellent tooling and molding services. We provide manufacturing solutions, including raw material verification, tool building, product molding, finishing, and product inspection to meet customers' demands. Our team of engineers is committed to offering high-quality professional support for any size of order or complexity.
1. Rapid prototype tooling and low-volume injection molding of 50-5,000+ parts for prototyping or small batch production.
2. Bridge tooling and medium volume rapid injection molding of 5,000-100,000+ parts for market launching.
3. Production tooling and high-volume molding of 100,000+ parts for mass production.
During these years, we have applied custom injection molding to help many customers make their parts successfully. Please send us an email to learn more about our capabilities.
What is Injection Molding?
It is a cost-effective way to create plastic parts in low to high volumes. The process involves injecting molten plastic material into a mold and ejecting the solidified parts. The injection molding process repeats a hundred or thousand times. The mold cost is amortized and drives down the injection molding cost per part to a few dollars or even less as the process uses the same mold to create each piece. The plastic molded parts have consistent quality. The molding process has more materials, colors, cosmetics, polishes, and surface finishing options than 3D printing or CNC machining.
TEAM Rapid is a plastic injection molding company that provides on-demand prototypes, low-volume molding, and extensive volume production molding. We mold the plastic parts you need without design compromises at the correct price point. Our professional engineering team offers consultation on every injection molding quote and will efficiently move your projects from design to production.
Types Of Injection Molding Services At TEAM Rapid
TEAM Rapid is one of the best injection molding manufacturers in China; we work with various types of custom molding services to meet your low to high-volume needs
Clear Plastic Molding Insert Molding Overmolding Injection Molding Threads Silicone Rubber Molding
Injection Molding Services for Industries
1. As a reliable injection molding supplier, TEAM Rapid has served many customers overseas in a wide range of industries, including medical, consumer, consumer, etc.
2. With seeing a wide variety of products, we know how to work on every new custom injection molding project quickly at the right mold design and injection parameters.
3. With more than ten years of experience, we understand the context and differences in product development for each industry, giving us the advantage in addressing specific customer needs.
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How Plastic Mold Injection?
Plastic mold injection needs injection molding machines, raw plastic material, and mold. The primary plastic material is melted in the injection unit and injected into the mold, and the injection molds are machined from steel or aluminum. The parts cool and solidify into the end parts in the mold. Our engineers at TEAM Rapid will review your plastic injection molding project and offer a cost of injection molding. We will double-check with you to ensure every detail, specification, lead time, and price meets your requirements. We will CNC machine a high-quality injection mold. When the mold is built, we will send you samples for approval. When the mold is approved, we will begin production. TEAM Rapid molds a wide range of parts, from the smallest medical insert to large automotive, aerospace, and defense parts.
Advantages of Injection Molding with TEAM Rapid
There are many plastic injection molding companies. Why should you choose TEAM Rapid's services and injection mold in China? Here are the reasons:
1, Professional engineers
Our engineers have rich experience; we have handled thousands of injection molding projects. We can get the correct parameters immediately.
2, Modern and advanced facilities to reduce the cost of injection molding
We create the most precise molding using imported and top-brand local injection molding machines.
3, Unlimited capacities
Besides our in-house facilities, we have a strong network with our partners. We have metal and plastic injection molding machines from 50 to 1000 tons. They are ready for customers' orders without delay.
4, Quality guarantee
We guarantee each rapid manufacturing project is 100% inspected before shipment.
5, Competitive price
Our consistent technical innovation reduces the molding costs at maximum.
6, On-time delivery
We can ship custom parts in 7 working days.
7, High quality services
We understand your standards and know what your needs are. We offer professional plastic mold injection analysis and injection mold China advice for your projects.
Flows of Our Injection Molding Progress
TEAM Rapids offers a one-stop plastic injection molding service that starts from inquiry to engineering supports, tool building, and injection molded parts delivery. In the past ten years, we have helped more than 500 customers to develop their parts successfully.
Available Molding of Plastics
1. Hard plastic: ABS; ASA; PC; PMMA; PP; HDPE; POM; Nylon; Nylon+GF etc.
2. Soft Plastic: TPE (with different hardness); TPU (with different hardness) etc.
3. Material with different properties such as UV, chemical, abrasion, and impact resistance; good mechanical performance; Flexibility; Transparency.
4. Reliable & stable material supply chain; material data sheet/COC/COA available.
Thousands of thermo-forming and thermo-setting injection molding of plastics are available at TEAM Rapid; contact our technical specialists to learn which one is right for you!
Molding Finishes
TEAM Rapid offers a series of Molding surface finishes by existing standards or a physical sample.
1. We follow SPI polishing standards for smooth and glossy surfaces.
2. We follow VDI 3400 series for sparking texture surfaces.
3. We follow the Mold-Tech equivalent for textured surfaces.
Please read here for more details about the molding surface finishes standards.
Molding Colors
TEAM Rapid provides custom color matching, which is offered on customer supplied Pantone/RAL number or customer-supplied physical sample. There are three types of options to achieve custom coloring at TEAM Rapid:
1. For low-volume molding - use pigment in the hopper.
2. For high-volume molding - purchase compound custom material.
3. For very high-volume molding - use a master batch colorant.
Check the differences among these 3 methods.
Molding Tolerance & Visual Quality
At TEAM Rapid, we always suggest our customers set up the critical dimensions and expected visual quality at quoting stage.
1. If not specified, we comply with the Din 16742 standard tolerance for plastic injection molding.
2. Depends on the part's visibility and applications to set up the visual quality standard with the customer.
As one of the best injection molding solution companies, we work closely with you to optimize your designs for manufacturing. We were shooting down areas where the method may produce shrinkage, warping, thermal stress, etc., which may lead to assembly and functional problems.
Post-Processing on Your Custom Parts
Depending on your application's requirements, you can choose from the following when requesting the cost of injection molding quote:
Quality Assurance: Report! Report! Report!
Injection molding services have always been one of our core services. Our company has advanced injection molding and testing equipment to provide stable, qualified parts. Contact us at [email protected] to learn more about our services.
High Mix Low-Volume Injection Molding at TEAM Rapid
TEAM Rapid is one of the best molding companies that offer complete services, from design concepts and prototyping to mass production. Our team of experts is always ready to guide you, including ideas, design, creation, prototyping, production, testing, inspection, and shipping. As High-Mix, and Low-Volume Manufacturing projects involve setup. We can gather all materials and tools to identify waste before beginning the project and measure setup time and performance to ensure improvement over time. Contact us now for your new High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing project. Besides the services above, we also offer our customers silicone molding, injection blow molding, and DIY injection molding supports. You are looking for a manufacturer who offers plastic injection molding near me. You can try our fast delivery first.
Customized Injection Molding Cost - Overview
Customized injection molding doesn’t have any fixed cost. The cost for the custom injection molding production will depend on how you would like to use our services. Also, the various factors or requirements of your project will contribute to the overall price you need to pay. The cost of customized injection molding can be divided into two parts. First, the cost of the entire production operation. Second, the cost for the mold creation or tooling process.
Cost for the Entire Injection Molding Operation
The entire operation injection molding cost will be determined by the services you are using from the start of production until the production is finished. The cost will be included in the final products you receive once the production is finished. You will receive the final products according to your specified project requirements after paying the full cost of the entire injection molding operation. Some after-sales services will also require you to pay for the additional cost, such as when you need to revise the final products or make any alterations to your prototypes.
Injection Mold Cost/Rapid Tooling Cost
Creating the mold will also incur you some initial costs for the injection molding production. Often, the cost for the mold or the tooling process will be separated from the overall cost of the injection molding process. The injection mold cost will be payable during the initial stage of your injection molding process, after the blueprint design for the mold has been submitted to us.
The mold creation process might take some time to complete. It will depend on the complexity and features of the mold. Also, the production for the plastic parts can be started only after the mold is ready. You can use both rapid manufacturing or conventional manufacturing processes for the mold creation, each of which will also differ in price.
Important Aspects that Will Affect the Customized Injection Molding Cost
● The readiness of your design blueprint, as well as the complexity or intricacy of your product design.
● Raw materials you will use for the plastic products and mold, including the material type and grade or quality.
● The type of manufacturing technology to use, such as rapid manufacturing or conventional manufacturing.
● The tooling process and various aspects of the mold, including design, features, material, and so on.
● Your project requirements, which include the deadline you set for it.
Various additional processes involving the creation of your plastic products, such as branding, pad printing, and so on.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Injection Molding?
Injection molding is a forming process by injecting molten material into a mold to produce parts in small volumes to 1,000,000 +. It can be performed with various materials such as elastomers, glasses, confections, thermoplastic, thermosetting polymers, and metals(for which the process is known as die casting).
What Is Plastic Injection Molding?
Plastic injection molding is a branch of injection molding. It is a cost-effective and reliable method to produce solid and plastic parts and products in any volume. The process involves high pressure to force a molten liquid polymer into a hollow mold. It is removed from the mold when the polymer is cooled and solidified, and the cycle repeats. Every repeated process is called a shot. The more shots mean the more number parts you have gotten.
How Much Does injection Molding Cost?
Injection molding costs can be $100 or far more than $100,000. Part material, part size, order size, part complexity, mold cavity numbers, molding cycle time, labor cost etc are the factors that affect the costs. Injection molding can be cheap over the long run, but the unit part price is high to set up for a small volume. We usually suggest that clients go ahead with injection molding for quantities over 500+ needs.
How Does Injection Molding Work(How Injection Molding Works)?
There are several steps for injection molding:
1. Get ready for the mold and injection material.
2. Pull up the mold and locate it on the injection machine.
3. Clamping.
4. Injection.
5. Dwelling and cooling.
6. Ejection.
7. Trim the gate if needed.
How to Make Injection Molds?
There are several steps to make injection molds:
1. Mold design.
2. Order steel and mold base.
3. Steel inspection.
4. Rough CNC process.
5. Heat treatment.
6. Fine CNC process.
7. Electrodes machining.
8. EDM & Wire EDM.
9. Polishing/Texture.
10. Mold components inspection.
11. Fitting & Assembly.
12. Mold trial.
Some steps can be parallel processed, such as we can do mold CNC machining and electrode machining in the meanwhile by two different machines. For prototype mold or bridge mold, heat treatment can be eliminated due to the less volume.
How Much Do Injection Molds Cost?
The mold cost ranges from 1000 USD to 100,000+ USD, which depends on the material, size, structure, complexity etc.
A simple, small, single-cavity open and closed steel mold can cost as little as 1000 USD.
A complex, large, multi-cavity, multi-sliders steel mold can cost upwards of 20,000 USD to 100,000+ USD.
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