Why is the RIM process so special?
The answer is simple: It gives you the best value for your budget.
The low tooling investment makes it the ideal process for producing complex, 3-dimensional parts in volumes from a few dozen to a few thousand per year.
The RIM process is unique: two liquids are injected into a mold where they cure and become polyurethane. The resulting liquid has a very low viscosity and easily fills the mold with hardly any pressure.
Alternatively, traditional injection molding requires molten plastic to be injected at a very high viscosity and temperature into very expensive steel tooling. RIM molding requires tooling (molds) which costs only a fraction of Injection Molding steel tools.
Here is a checklist to help determine whether RIM is the right process for your application.
- Do you have a limited tooling budget to work with?
- Are expected annual volumes between 100 and 5,000?
- Are your parts larger than the phone on your desk?
- Do your parts have complex, 3-dimensional geometry?
- Are you looking for integration of additional functionality?
- Would you like to consolidate several parts into one single part?
- Would you like to overmold or encapsulate something into one part?
- Are you looking for an alternative to injection molding?
- Not sure which is the right process to manufacture your product?
If you answered YES to at least one of these questions you should have us take a closer look at your project and determine if RIM is technically and economically feasible. It costs you nothing but your time to send us your files for review.
