Toolcraft Plastics - Moulding Your Ideas

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We've helped countless entrepreneurs and companies develop their ideas into products over the years, using our design and toolmaking experience. Here are just two of our success stories. We helped these customers 'mould their ideas' - we can help you too.

Making tools 'by halves' saves time and money

Toolcraft came up with novel way to reduce the complexity of injection mould tools and so save money for our client, Golf-Tech.

Golf-Tech was developing a golf ball server and had initial injection moulding designs done by a design house. However, this original design would have needed withdrawing parts in the injection moulding tool, adding significant cost. Instead, Toolcraft's design service:

golf ball server
golf ball server in two halves
  1. split the mouldings into two half cylinders, so that the tool did not need a withdrawing part
  2. made the tool as an insert which fitted into one of our standard bolsters
  3. allowed for the potential to double throughput from the same tool at a later date.
The final 'two halves' mouldings were joined by ultrasonic welding, resulting in a smart-looking product at a much more attractive cost than if the product had been made according to the original design. See more examples of our mould tool design solutions.
"We've worked with Toolcraft for some years now, on a range of products. Their design, toolmaking and injection moulding service is fast & reliable and they deliver excellent quality products." David Kinghorn, Inverness Medical
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Injection moulding redesign service improves seal

For another of our customers, we redesigned 2 steel valve seating rings in tough plastic and we achieved a better seal at a much lower cost than the steel rings our customer was using before.

Tests on the injection moulding made of acetal showed the plastic to 'give' a little, making an even better seal than the steel at a far lower cost.
plastic valve seating ring
plastic valve seating ring

The product also had 8 radial holes which were particularly expensive to machine in steel. Instead, we incorporated them into the redesigned injection moulding tool, eliminating post moulding machining.
Designing 'out' the time consuming cutting of the holes was crucial in cutting costs. We managed to do this on 1 mould tool without retracting cores which would have slowed the process and increased tool costs. See more examples of our injection moulding solutions.
"When fire at our supplier badly damaged our injection moulding tools, we needed to get back into production fast. Toolcraft did a great job, cleaning and restoring the tools in a few days. This was 30 years ago ! Toolcraft Plastics have supplied very many of our mouldings ever since. We're very satisfied with their standards of quality and service." Ted Hicks, Electropatent International
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We've helped many more customers over the last 30 years. Use of our wealth of design & toolmaking experience to your advantage to achieve better product quality at the right price. Ready to let us mould your ideas? Get in touch.

With best wishes,

Sonja van Leeuwen, Marketing Coordinator
Toolcraft Plastics (Swindon) Ltd, Tel: 01793-641040