A fast and cost-effective alternative to injection molding, allowing your customers to focus on rapid design iteration and prototyping.
Conventional processes for producing silicone or elastomeric parts can be very expensive, inflexible and time consuming, leading to delays in development or innovation for your customers from long lead time prototypes or production parts. 3D printing resin-based sacrificial eggshell molds is a fast and cost-effective alternative to injection molding, now allowing your customers to focus on rapid design iteration, prototyping and low-run production of elastomeric components. Learn how our 3D printing solutions enable you to produce eggshell molds with high accuracy and speed to enable quick turnaround on components such as bellows, seal, gasket, insulators, grommets, bands and straps including geometries that are traditionally impossible to make with tooling.
Eggshell molding is a sacrificial manufacturing technique that uses 3D printing to produce a thin, single-use mold that is injected with the final production material and then broken away. Also known as digital silicone tooling, this technique enables the production of true silicone and rubber parts without expensive metal tooling and with faster product development times. Our 3D printing solutions produce resin-based eggshell molds with high accuracy and speed. They enable the quick turnaround of a variety of silicone parts, including geometries that are traditionally impossible to make with tooling.
