Avante Tech FilaOne™ GRAY Injection Mold & Parts
Avante Tech FilaOne GRAY Injection Mold & Parts.
Avante Technology, a developer of advanced 3D printing materials and technologies, has announced its new ‘Mold Now’ design and printing service for 3D printed injection moulds.
All moulds produced through the service will be made using Avante’s own composite filaments. The company believes by offering this service, it provides its customer base everything they need, whether it be a plastic injection mould, a compression mould, or a vacuum mould. On that, the company also promises all types of moulds will be capable of delivering production parts of the highest quality.
“3D printed injection moulds reduce cost and speed time to market,” said Robert Zollo, President of Avante Technology. “The opportunity to save weeks to months for delivery of first parts at up to 90% cost savings is attracting more companies to evaluate 3D printing injection moulds as part of their ‘go to market’ strategy for new products.”
Avante’s design to mould service is said to add further cost-saving benefits to that. Costing as little as $2,500, the company believes its service also eliminates a great deal of technical risk for manufacturers. It also aims to address a number of limitations. Namely, these concern the high cost of operating industrial 3D printing platforms; the amount, or lack thereof, mould-quality printable materials that can be printed on affordable, open source printers; and a lack of knowledge in the converting metal mould designs into optimised versions for 3D printing.
Thanks to its FilaOne GRAY injection mould grade, Avante believes it is in a position to solve these issues. The high performance composite provides a mould cavity able to support dozens to 100+ moulding cycles, producing quality parts using a range of thermoplastics. The FilaOne filament can be printed on the more affordable high precision, open source platforms, such as this provided by German RepRap, AirWolf and Roboze.
With Avante providing the design expertise for printing the mould, users just need to provide the CAD and .STL files for their part, as well as any configuration requirements specific to the injection moulding machine. Avante’s deign service includes the preliminary tool design; the printing of a prototype mould for testing; any design revisions that need to be made; and the printing of the final mould. The first prototype mould will be shipped within a week of the customer’s approval.
