Our platform is specialized for injection mold tool making. High precision, tight tolerances, and unseen design freedom enabled by our unique dissolvable resins. The printers utilizing the platform are resin based and begin at 10µm resolution and general tolerances of 10-80µm on the injection molded component.
Inject
Freeform Injection Molding tools apply to any injection molding machine, with an injection pressure of up to 2500 bar and max melt temperature of 450°C (842°F). The molding tools are compatible with all conventional injection molding feedstock materials, such as composites, thermoplastics, thermoplastic elastomers (TPE), silicones (LSR), ceramics (CIM), and metals (MIM) - in shot sizes from 0.1g to 100g.
Dissolve
The essential enabler of Freeform Injection Molding is the soluble injection mold tools. Rather than ejecting the component from the injection mold tool as in conventional demolding, each injection mold tool dissolves to release the injection-molded part. This unique process gently submerges the filled injection mold tool in an alkaline-water solution for ~12-48 hours.
Prototype with your production material
Imagine being able to prototype with the materials you use for production and process on the same machines. Freeform Injection Molding gives you that.
The choice of materials is one of the most critical decisions faced during development. Freeform Injection Molding is the ideal prototyping platform. It supports the full range of injection molding feedstock, treats the materials the same way, and achieves the same isotropic material properties as conventional injection molding for accurate manufacturing grade testing.
A prototype in a different material made by a different process is simply look-a-like, and therefore it will not perform like the final product. Freeform Injection Molding is not look-a-like. It gives you components that are manufacturing grade with the exact material properties of the production part - ready for test and qualification.
Freeform Injection Molding gives you access to everything from any legacy materials to medical-grade materials to FDA-approved materials. In other words: all materials approved for injection molding are compatible with Freeform Injection Molding.
Thermoplastics
Thermoplastics is the backbone of Injection Molding: from polypropylene to PEEK and from elastomers to carbon-filled metal replacements. The product developer should be able to choose freely between these materials, and Freeform Injection Molding is the platform that delivers.
Metals & Ceramics
High-end applications require high-end materials. And powder injection molding is a crucial enabler in medical devices, electronic components, automotive parts, and aerospace industries. Freeform Injection Molding offers new design freedom for the most demanding powder injection molding applications.
Silicone & Rubbers
Soft components are an indispensable part of many devices. Their prototyping may result insignificant challenges. Freeform Injection Molding is the only 3D printed tooling platform that offers the product developer a free choice of materials with no concerns for design constraints.
We are constantly striving to expand our interface by testing new materials. Reach out if interested in testing your material on an additive platform.
The ability to iterate swiftly is an essential requirement for a prototyping process. Conventional pilot tooling may be weeks or even months in the making, and modifications may be equally time-consuming. Freeform Injection Molding allows you to carry out multiple iterations, simultaneously.
You may go from CAD-file to molded component in a day. Add to that the fact that our molds are soluble, which means you skip the split-lines, in the beginning.
CAD to component in 24 hours
FIM is 88% faster than conventional injection mold prototyping. It means you can test five times as many ideas, in the same time period.
Simplify tool designs
Soluble tooling allows you to postpone split lines, sliders, collapsible cores, ejectors, and other complications to focus on the actual product. For faster and easier prototype tooling.
Front-load testing
Product testing requires realistic parts. That is why you should use injection-molded prototypes if your final product is injection molded. Freeform Injection Molding is the cheapest and fastest way to get there.
Freeze designs gradually
Conventional prototype tooling is cut in metal, and modifications are slow and expensive. Freeform Injection Molding lets you iterate at speed with fully printed tooling and replace the 3D-printed mold tools with a metal mold tool as Your design matures.
Precision detailing
Imagine if creativity was your only constraint. Suppose you could build your tools out of building blocks the size of white blood cells.
With Freeform Injection Molding, complexity is not a problem and does not add cost. You can injection mold previously impossible geometries.
Freeform Injection Molding eliminates demolding and ejection obstacles. The impossible is made possible by our soluble 3D-printed molds, meaning no need for drafts, split-lines, sliders, collapsible cores, or other complications.
We power the development of injection molded parts with unseen features that require tooling that disappears. If your goal is to develop truly innovative products, you need the most innovative toolkit.
Design Freedom
Do not let the constraints of injection molding limit your CAD design. Freeform Injection Molding allows you to design highly detailed geometries in the program of your choice, including CREA, SolidWorks, and AutoCAD.
Component Size
Freeform Injection Molding provides more design freedom than any other prototyping platform for anything from micro components to consumer goods. You can design geometries with 1-100mm dimensions in any direction or weights of 0.1-100g.
Precision & Tolerances
Freeform Injection Molding does not compromise prototype precision. With the smallest detail of 10µm, an average accuracy of 50µm, wall thicknesses down to 100µm, and holes as small as 300µm in diameter, you can make components for any application.