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TOOL-MAKING

The right choice of tool-making

Because the right mold determines the quality of your products, the responsibility for the quality of your products lies with the mold-maker.
The biggest challenges with housings are avoiding unsightly sink marks in the material and ensuring tightness against water ingress. We have decades of know-how in the field of plastic injection molding and aluminium die casting of housings. Thanks to global sourcing in tooling combined with our own tool maintenance and repair department, we can guarantee the required quality at reasonable prices. Our engineers provide support as early as the part design stage to ensure optimal results and avoid unnecessary loops. Depending on the requirements of the parts, delivery time and the quantities needed, you can choose between aluminum tools or steel tools so-called "soft or hard tools".

Kunststoffspritzgusswerkzeug an einer Spritzgussmaschine
Kunststoffspritzgusswerkzeug an einer Spritzgussmaschine
Own tool guideline

Guarantees consistent quality and reduces costly loops

40 years of experience

Injection molded housings have been our core business for years

Soft and hard tools

Tool design individually and economically adapted to your requirements

Kunststoffspritzgusswerkzeug an einer Spritzgussmaschine
Kunststoffspritzgusswerkzeug an einer Spritzgussmaschine

Worldwide tooling according to requirements

We have through the Phoenix Mecano Group, depending on the requirements of the parts, different possibilities for tool production. We manufacture tools in Europe and in China for die-cast and injection-molded parts, as well as stamped and bent parts. These are usually transferred to one of our European injection molding plants. Our European production sites for die casting and injection molding parts are equipped with modern equipment and guarantee that the tools are optimally matched to our high-quality machines and produce parts of a correspondingly high quality. In addition, the possibility of relocation massively reduces the delivery time for injection molded parts compared to Asia. Mold adjustments and service work are also carried out on site at the injection molding plant. In addition to precision and quality, this also guarantees flexibility, speed and a good price/performance ratio.
After the first samples, the parts are tested for function. In the next step, the surface structure is determined before series production begins.

Kunststoffspritzgusswerkzeug an einer Spritzgussmaschine
Kunststoffspritzgusswerkzeug an einer Spritzgussmaschine
Global tool production

Depending on the requirements of the parts

European injection molding plants

Short delivery times compared to Asia

Soft/Hard-tool – Fast to market with Soft-tooling

Aluminum molds – Soft-Tooling

Customized injection molded housings on your table in just a few working days? Soft tooling combines the properties of rapid prototyping and plastic injection molding. Aluminum tools, so-called soft tools, are produced very quickly and are suitable for small and medium quantities.

Steel tools – hard tooling

For larger quantities or very demanding parts, steel tools - "hard tools" - are the optimal solution. High accuracy, durability and high quality surfaces are characteristics which are achieved with steel tools.
We will find the right tooling solution with you. Send us your sketches or 3D data and ask us.

 

Spritzgussform aus Stahl zweiteilig
Spritzgussform aus Stahl zweiteilig
Aufbau eines Werkzeug für Kunststoffspritzguss
Aufbau eines Werkzeug für Kunststoffspritzguss

Design for Manufacturing Report for tool manufacturing

The Design for Manufacturing (DFM) report aims to verify manufacturability while keeping part manufacturing costs as low as possible. It bridges the gap between design and tooling. The more potential problems the mold-maker can foresee, the more efficient and cost-effective the subsequent adaptation of the mold will be until the injection molded parts are produced in the required quality. For this purpose, various points are questioned, checked and recorded. Among others these are:

  • Which manufacturing process
  • The exact material designation
  • Details of the mold and suitable injection molding machine
  • Injection points
  • Mold flow analysis
  • etc.
Aufbau eines Werkzeug für Kunststoffspritzguss
Aufbau eines Werkzeug für Kunststoffspritzguss

Mold flow analysis – simulation of the injection molding process

Modern 3D CAD systems and the prototypes created from them provide early insights into the later product. Also in mold making it is important to save time by avoiding later and unnecessary adjustments.
Mold flow analysis is particularly helpful for this. It simulates the flow of the material during the molding process of the housing. More precisely, how the liquid plastic flows into the mold, cools and hardens. Mold flow analysis can show the shape of shrinkage, warpage, sink marks and air pockets. The findings from this are immediately incorporated into the mold design. Unwanted side effects are thus reduced even before the first injection process.

Moldflow Analyse von einem Spritzgussteil
Moldflow von einem Handgehäuse
Mold Flow Analyse eines Spritgussteils
WHY PHOENIX MECANO

This is why you benefit from our mold making for housings

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Experience

Housings have been our core business for 40 years

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Know-how

We know the dangers of tools for housings

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No risk

Development, tool-making, series production; All from one partner

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Global tool-making

Various locations, depending on the requirements of the parts