SRG team members were not only seeking a reliable injection molder, but one that could manage the intricacies of the mold transfer portion of the program with minimal disruption.

We combine traditional injection molding methods with aluminum tooling to deliver plastic molded parts in 3 weeks or less, with the same high precision, complex designs, custom surface finishes and textures.

As a full-service contract manufacturer, Ferriot is capable of a wide variety of services to the customer. Learn how a medical OEM selected Ferriot for full-service sourcing and assembly of components for fluid-injection pumps.

Aluminum offers excellent machinability with small chips, few burrs, fast CNC feeds, 5 to 10 times faster machining and EDM than steel, and the ability to provide faster finishing and polishing times, so molds can be built in less time.

Think about how people handle your products. Would a softer grip help? For one client, we developed a softer, easier touch on an operating room light for better handling during surgery.

Lead times can be problematic if not managed correctly. We’ll show you how we worked with a medical device OEM to shorten lead times on parts and components for wheelchairs, and gain greater efficiencies.

Aluminum mold can be polished or textured，it can be polished to a near SPI #2 finish，possible to get a Class A surface finish on an optical component. With few exceptions, any texture added to a steel mold can be added to any aluminum mold.Class A surface finish is usually used for optical components such as clear lenses, light pipes, light guides and prisms made from materials such as acrylic and polycarbonate. Even these clear plastic components with complex optical details and highest level of surface quality are not impossible to expect from aluminum tooling. For example, hard coating aluminum molds with electroless nickel adds additional hardness and corrosion resistance, polishes extremely well to a Class A surface finish, and protects the integrity and extends the life of the mold.

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There are a variety of benefits of aluminum molds over steel molds, which translates to a critical advantage for our customers. Aluminum provides excellent machinability, faster machining, less cycle time, more readily adaptable to engineering changes, tight tolerances, and consistent process, and reduced production costs. Now, anything you do in a traditional P20 mold can be done in an aluminum mold.

Ferriot’s experienced engineers are here to guide you through every critical step in your injection molding journey, from concept to completion.

Ferriot’s manufacturing services extend through final assembly, complete with custom color, cosmetic finishing, and production.

Can you imagine making an aluminum mold and delivering hundreds of plastic parts in just three weeks? From mold design to mold built, our design team is devoted to developing a cost-effective and quick turn-around aluminum tooling approach:

Conventional steel tooling is normally used for producing millions of parts, however, what if production demands call for smaller quantities?As steel mold often takes months to manufacture and large initial capital investment, in the last few decades, pressures to shorten the cycle time for both making the mold cheaper and molding parts quicker to market has driven the interest in an aluminum injection mold to a new level. With today’s improved grades of aluminum outstanding hardness and strength for increased mold life, aluminum mold can be not just for a prototype or the bridge to a faster product launch, but also it can be a successful alternative to steel tooling with huge benefits that will continue to advance and influence the future of the plastics industry. If you don’t request millions of parts, if you need to produce parts on-demand in a quick turn, and if you want to avoid risky tooling investments until your part design is truly validated, low volume injection molding using aluminum molds may be a best approach.

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Have a complex part design, with tight tolerances, and various surface finishes and textures? Don’t worry. Our aluminum tooling process can handle it and we won’t ask you to change any things, and allow you to reach the market the fastest with the least amount of cost.

If your product requires a softer touch — for easier handling or gripping, consider over molding with Ferriot, for example — Ferriot’s design team can help you achieve the right touch and performance with an attractive two-color exterior.

Over molding is an injection molding process where two or more materials are combined into a single part for easier handling or gripping.

The point is that Ferriot’s true capacity is our institutional expertise in resin selection to support innovative solutions. With a veteran team of engineers, we design and engineer custom solutions that didn’t exist yesterday (except in the minds of our customers).

Typically, we stock more than 150 varieties of resins at any given time in our 200,000-square-foot facility, conveniently located to the major markets of the Midwest and East Coast.

Aluminum tooling can evenly dissipates heat, which offers a more consistent mold temperature, improve dimensional stability in tooling. This significantly reduces warpage and produces less waste during the production process.

Aluminum tooling cavities conduct heat nearly five times faster than P-20 tool steel. Quicker cooling generally means substantially reduced cycle time and faster parts and allows us to process without machining some cooling channels this also reduced mold building time.

As one of the few “systems houses” in North America, Ferriot can step in at any point in the manufacturing process because our engineering, design, molding, and tooling, and finishing technologies can be applied to products in concept development or at any other stage of production.

We are committed to manufacturing high-performance aluminum injection molds, molded parts and continually improving our processes to build better molds faster and at a lower cost in order to provide high-value solutions to our customers.

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Usually, the weight of aluminum mold is one-third of the steel mold, which is easy to operate; fast and efficient machinability makes aluminum machining easier and tool loss lower; simplified cooling system and mold structure make the production efficiency much higher. These directly or indirectly reduce the overall production cost.

Aluminum tools always play as a bridge to a faster product launch due to aluminum mold core/cavities and inserts being more flexible and easier to machine than steel, so iterative design changes or creating modifications are typically less burdensome and less cost impact.

Our experience covers the knowledge of good Design for Manufacturability, a comprehensive understanding of all thermoplastic resin families, and injection mold design expertise.