Example Projects Plastic parts in as little as 2-4 weeks Complex Tooling: Slides; Lifters; Undercuts; Core Pulls and More! All engineering grade materials available Quality tooling with no compromise

Example Projects by Metro Plastics

SHORT RUN PRODUCTION TOOL EXAMPLE PROJECT Goal 1 cavity prototype tool Sharp corners Hold tolerances of +/- 0.001 10 day lead time Material: Delrin Build prototype mold to sustain production need for 1 year (50,000 shots).

• 1 cavity steel mold
• Samples provided in 4 days
• Mold has ran 60,000+ pieces to date
• Mold transferred to Metro for production needs. Transit time - 2 weeks.

PARTS ONLY EXAMPLE PROJECT Goal 1 cavity rapid prototype tool Utilize slides Sharp corners 15 day lead time Material: polycarbonate Build rapid injection mold for part design verification... 200 parts only

• 1 cavity steel mold
• All 200 parts provided in 12 days
• Additional 200 parts after engineering - change provided in 3 days.
• Mold remained at tool source. Customer went on to build 12 cavity production mold with Metro with no required changes.

PRODUCTION MOLD EXAMPLE PROJECT Goal 1 cavity rapid prototype tool Complex Geometry Sharp corners 4 week lead time Utilize Metro Tooling Standard Material: glass filled Nylon Build production tool and submit samples to customer for approval Ship mold to customer for production.

• 1 cavity steel mold
• 20 Samples provided in 3½ weeks
• Samples approved by customer
• Mold shipped to customer... transit time 2½ weeks.

PROTOTYPE MOLD/BRIDGE TOOL EXAMPLE PROJECT Goal 1 cavity prototype tool Deep interior pocket Utilize both LIFTERS and SLIDES 4 week lead time Material: Glass filled PC V-0 Build mold and run 1,000 pcs at tool source then ship to Metro Plastics for future orders.

• 1 cavity steel mold (H13 mold inserts)
• 12 samples provided in 4 weeks.
• samples after EC - 3 days.
• Mold has ran 20,000 pcs to date

INSERT MOLDING EXAMPLE PROJECT Goal 1 cavity bridge tool Heat staked threaded insert Inserts provided by customer 2 week lead time Material: ABS V-0 material Build mold and run 2,000 pcs at tool source Tool to remain at tool source

• Insert molded threaded insert
• samples provided in 9 days
• samples after EC - 2 days
• Mold ran 9,500 pcs while 6 cavity production mold being built.

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