The Leader In 3D Printed Tooling Innovation
3D Printed Tooling
Catalysis is the leader in thermoforming tooling innovation. We are leading the charge of bringing additive manufacturing to the thermoforming industry. Our 3D printed tooling is manufactured for a fraction of the time and cost of traditional tooling, with much more durability and quality when compared to traditional tooling.
Our Catalysis 3D printed vacuum forming tooling technology provides many benefits, including a 50% cost & time reduction.

Fixturing
We not only provide 3D printed forming tools, but we also provide fixturing. This inludes CNC trim fixtures, assembly fixtures, CNC check fixtures and draw boxes.
With our Catalysis 3D Printed tooling technology, more complexity means higher advantage for 3D printed tooling for foam.
Founded on Experience
While working at Honda of America Manufacturing, Catalysis founders Darrell Stafford and Rick Shibko witnessed how much focus was on the reduction of product development schedules. The result was a negative impact on the reduction of tooling lead times, subsequently resulting in higher prototype tooling costs. With more new products being introduced all the time and the increasing frequency of model changes, the prototype tooling costs and lead times became a challenge to reduce.
Catalysis Additive Tooling was founded by utilizing the collective 60+ years of automotive engineering, tooling, and new model development experience of Stafford and Shibko. That experience combined with their 10+ years of Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing research allows them to offer their customers a complete solution to support their Development and Production needs.
MEET THE TEAM3D Printing Diverse
At Catalysis Additive Tooling we take an agnostic approach to 3D Printing. We apply a number of different 3D Printing technologies and select the best technology to meet and exceed our customer needs.
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3D Printed Vacuum Forming Tool With A Very Thin Cross Suction Lip & A Deep Draw
Thin Cross Suction Lip & A Deep Draw The customer for this project had confidence in our tooling strength to make a 3D printed ...
Replacing Fiberglass Parts With Thermoformed Parts
The industry is changing! To reduce manufacturing time and costs, manufacturers are switching from fiberglass parts to thermoformed ...
Presentation At Penn College of Technology Thermoforming Workshop
President & CEO, Darrell Stafford presented at Penn College of Technology Thermoforming Workshop Penn College of Technology is a ...
Designing A 3D Printed Tool By Reverse Engineering A Ren Wood Tool
We reverse engineered a ren wood tool to make a 3D printed tool Customer came to us with this ren wood tool that has: Clear ...
3D Printed Vacuum Forming Tool With A Very Deep Draw
We made a 3D printed tool with a 50″ deep draw This is a 35″ x 38″ 3D printed vacuum forming tool with a very deep ...
New Demo Tool With 2 Levels of Surface Finish | 100 RA Surface Finish | A Class A Surface Finish
We have a new demo tool with 2 levels of surface finishes At Catalysis, we are always looking for ways to enhance our customers ...
Pennsylvania College of Technology Tool Donation
We’ve Done It Before & We Are Excited To Do It Again! Our students are our future and we believe that it is extremely ...
Complete Reverse Engineering Of A 3D Printed Tool
Proving our One Stop Shop Capabilities For this project, we had to do complete reverse engineering to design the 3D printed tool for ...
15 20″ x 12″ 3D Printed Vacuum Forming Tools On One 92″ x 92″ Base
How many tools can you fit on one base? How big can the base get? 15 20″ x 12″ 3D Printed Vacuum Forming Tools On One ...
105″ Vacuum Forming Tray
What is the longest vacuum forming tool you’ve seen? This is a 105″ vacuum forming tray that we completed in a quick ...