A customer needed a Catalysis FX™ vacuum forming tool modified quickly. For this request, we machined the tool, 3D printed 6 new sections for modified area and added the new sections to the tool. We modified tool and ...
What do you think when you hear “tool modification”? Machining? Welding? Too expensive? Too complicated? That’s what most people think about modifying a tool- that it will require machining. We recently completed a ...
Did you know that we don’t drill holes in our tools? That’s correct! Our tools don’t have any vacuum holes. With no vacuum holes, we are able to vacuum over the entire tool surface, resulting in better part quality. ...
With our proprietary Catalysis FX™ 3D printed tooling technology, we are able to complete major projects in a short turnaround time. These are 3 large vacuum forming tools capable of making 500 parts each, all completed and ...
When it comes to providing tooling for customers, quality & time is a top priority. But, tooling cost is also important! Listen to President & CEO, Darrell Stafford explain why we are so confident in our tooling cost ...
Speed Of Our Tooling Manufacturing We talk a lot about the significant cost & time reduction that our Catalysis FX™ tooling technology provides for our customers, so we thought it would be helpful to break it down & ...
What was the motivation behind starting Catalysis & how are we using 3d printed tooling to disrupt the tooling industry? Catalysis was started because of the opportunity to reduce cost & time for tooling due to the fact that ...
Here is another example of all the unique things we can do with 3D Printing! For this project: – We have a Catalysis FX™ vacuum forming tool to make covers – Similar to conventional tooling, we added a printed pocket ...
We’ve been working on development tooling for pulp paper forming! For this process, a pulp water solution is used to pull through the tool to form the part. The tool is a stainless steel 3D printed metal tool with 9,000 honeycomb ...
Did you know there are different ways to use 3D printed tooling? You can choose to either print one part directly and have the one part or print a tool that can make 1000’s of parts. OPTION 1: 3D PRINT THE PART DIRECTLY the part is ...
