Plastic Injection Mold Design

Plastic injection mold design is an integral part of producing a plastic part designed for injection molding. Without proper plastic injection mold design a customer may not achieve adequate cycle times, part strength, cosmetic requirements or tooling life, and the amount of time required to build and rework a proper tool can take a year or more. Proper plastic injection mold design reduces the chances of these setbacks occurring.

Cypress Industries performs all plastic injection mold design internally and utilizes a 40 step tooling design review process with multiple tooling experts to ensure our customers receive the best possible chance at receiving good parts as quickly as possible off their plastic injection molds.

Customers at a minimum are provided 2D PDF’s of gate locations and ejector pin locations to ensure that cosmetically they are ok with the placement of those items that can affect plastic part design aesthetics. Customers can request full 3D plastic injection mold designs for approval prior to Cypress Industries beginning to cut steel.

Our tooling design review encompasses things such as:

For clients with more complex plastic injection mold design requirements we recommend utilizing Moldflow® software at an additional cost which we can quote. Moldflow® analysis of complex parts can aid with:

For high volume production runs, the additional cost of a 3D Moldflow® analysis can be offset by improved cycle times, part quality and tool life.

Cypress Industries has experienced plastic injection mold making engineers and machinists in the USA who can work with you during your plastic part design for injection molding to assist you with:

Our plastic part designers and processors are familiar with many types of engineered resins including but not limited to:

For your plastic part design for injection molding we can also assist you with specialized plastic resin additives to enhance the processing or product such as:

Typical engineering grade plastic resins we utilize are:

Our engineers know to take into account the wide variety of custom plastic injection molding services or secondary/additional operations we provide. By doing this we can give our customers the understanding needed to be able to evaluate whether to spend extra monies on more complex tools and molds, or if their volumes are lower it may make sense to have a higher unit price in lieu of paying more up front. Some of the secondary operations our designers will consider are:

Cypress Industries services a wide range of markets for plastic injection mold design and plastic part design for injection molding. These industries include:

When performing plastic injection mold design we are able to design to comply with many standards including DME. If required by customers Cypress Industries can design in any specified mold components whether metric or standard for bases, tool and die components, hot runner systems, hot sprue bushings, core & ejector pins, ejector sleeves and temperature control systems to ensure that replaceable components are available at the tools final destination anywhere in the world.