In today’s market, it is hard to find sources for low volume polyurethane and silicone casting solutions. These applications are on the rise; but the solutions for these materials are lacking. Vulcan GMS has expanded our offerings to include these materials and we can help you find prototype and production solutions that meet your needs.
Through the use of our casting experience, our 3D printer and our in-house machining, we can offer our customers options to make tooling and parts in rubber-based applications. There are many market applications where injection molding is not warranted due to the tooling cost and low volume nature of the customer need. So what do you do then? The answer is simple: Let Vulcan GMS help you with your low volume needs. We can produce quantities from single prototypes up to a few hundred per year effectively.
Vulcan can also over-mold components in the instances where a softer material is required on the exterior. We can provide encapsulated components in the situations where additional protection or sealing is required. This could be over molded plastic or rubber parts as well as over molded metal parts.
When we review your product needs, we work backwards from the needs directly into the tooling application needed. We can work with you to identify the tolerances and critical features to model the tools that allow us to produce simple tooling to meet the application needs. Injection molding is a great manufacturing technique; however justifying tooling and quantities needed are very difficult at low volumes. Let us help you in this development and offer an alternative solution for your low volume needs.
We save our customers time and money through prototyping
Vulcan recently helped one of its major medical OEM customers recognize the benefits of this process with a joint engineering process.
This customer projected the need for 100 to 150 pieces per year which required steel fabrication, machined components, assembly and rubber spacers. Once specific rubber spacer was a custom design and would have required injection molding to make the part.
The quoted tooling cost for the injection molding was more than $11,000. But Vulcan was able to make the needed tooling from our 3D printer and we had functional tooling within three days.
As a result, the customer received functional parts faster, tooling under 1/10th of the projected costs and with a product that actually performed better for the application.
Contact Vulcan GMS to find out how we can help you find your low volume casting solution.