Pre-Production Injection Molds

What is a Pre-production mold?

Pre-Production or limited production injection molds are usually single cavity, cold runner P-20 steel molds produced very rapidly. They may however, have some hardened steel components in high wear areas. These molds tend to share manufacturing techniques from prototype molds and production molds. These molds usually are designed to run automatically but may require gate trimming or other slight post molding operations. The key to pre-production tooling is speed of construction.

Why build Pre-Production molds?

Pre-production tooling is usually single cavity and cold runner. This tooling can be produced very rapidly and be placed in production while a multi cavity hard steel tool is still in production/debug. This type of tooling allows for accelerating product manufacturing schedules by providing quality parts to begin the assembly process. Although this approach may not represent the final most cost effective solution to molding a particular product, the slight decrease in profit margin is offset by having the product in the marketplace sooner. In addition should any other design changes need to be done it is much easier and faster to perform them on a single cavity mold.

Why Choose Marathon Mold?

Marathon Mold excels in the construction of Pre-Production mold tooling. The choice for pre-production tooling at Marathon Mold is usually a P-20 or hard S-7 steel. We offer the 5 x 8 inch Master Unit Die (MUD) insert as a standard size mold. We also can construct a custom mold up to 8 X 12 inches in size. We work with our customers to identify their needs and provide the right tooling for the volume and quality required. We employ the same 3-D design concept on our pre-production molds as our production molds. Our advanced integration of design and NC software allows the design and to flow into the NC and manufacturing phase without the use of detailed blueprints thus saving time and money on your prototype project. On your next project call the experts on mold tooling Marathon Mold.