Traditional plastic manufacturing is a laborious process requiring many steps and extremely expensive machinery.
How many steps are there? Let’s count them!
First, you need the mold. Plastic injection molds are crafted from extremely expensive metal molds that can take months to produce and often cost well over $1 million each! And if you need to modify it, you’re in trouble—that usually means creating an entirely new mold with the same hefty cost and delay.
Not with PhotonCast! A mold can be created using silicone rubber and optional 3D printing with molds typically being finished and ready within one for less than $20! Otherwise, you’re left with the option of buying or renting an injection molding machine or paying a shop to handle the work for you. Just open your checkbook—need I say more?
PhotonCast is simple to use, requiring no expensive machinery, high pressure, or extreme temperatures—no hassle at all! Plus, no special training is needed.
Processes like embedded electronics, encapsulated parts, layered carbon fiber, or metal filling? Good luck achieving those with injection molding.
PhotonCast? Not a problem at all. Embedding electronics, encapsulated parts, layered carbon fiber, Metal filling. No problem at all with PhotonCast!
With the PhotonCast method, it’s simple:
1) Print the mold or have it printed for you, typically costing under $20—much better than the usual $150,000 for a traditional injection mold!
2) Pour the UV-curing resin into the mold.
3) Place the mold into PhotonCast, press a button, and wait less than a minute. Voila! A finished part in just 1 minute—not 10 hours, not 1 hour, but 1 minute.
4) Repeat! You can easily produce plastic parts from start to finish in 2 minutes or less.
Yes, that’s right, 2 minutes or less! Need to make 200 parts? Normally, each part might take 6 hours. Let’s do the math: 6 hours × 60 minutes per hour × 200 parts = 72,000 minutes, or 50 days! Not with PhotonCast! Each part takes just 2 minutes. That’s 2 minutes × 200 parts = 400 minutes. 400 minutes ÷ 60 = 6 hours and 35 minutes! Fast enough to complete the entire order within a single day, with time for lunch and breaks! It costs just pennies per part, not tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Finish your order in a day, not months!