Molds: Design, Build & Repair
Ironwood Plastics started with a vast background in Molds and Mold Design and that tradition continues today. Both plants have full toolroom capabilities to take on the most difficult projects. All though most production tools are now constructed at outside shops in the U.S. and Asia, our engineering staff is part of the entire design and build phase. The reason for this is simple: Production tooling is guaranteed for life...the customer will never pay maintenance for tooling ordered from Ironwood Plastics.
Our services include:
High production, multi-cavity Class A tooling
Quick delivery prototype tooling using standard mold frames
Shuttle Molds
Conventional and 3-plate molds
Hot runner molds
Automatic unscrewing molds
Robotic end of arm tooling
Face mounted molds
Expandable molds
RJG Cavity Pressure Transducers on Production Molds
Transfer Over-molds
Complete design staff
Mold repair
Laser & TIG welding
Off-Shore Tooling
Generous cost savings (in the 30-40% range) can be achieved using off-shore tooling. IWP has made the commitment to find the very best sources in Asia. Management and Tooling Engineers have visited those sources twice...once in 2004 and again in 2006. Approximately five sources have been qualified trips and many projects have experienced complete success. For those customers that want the savings, IWP offers the same guarantee for off shore tooling: Production tooling is guaranteed for life...the customer will never pay maintenance for tooling ordered from Ironwood Plastics.
Below is a complex tool that was built in Asia. In this case, IWP engineers designed the tool. Delivery to IWP's dock was 63 days after delivery of tool design.
Design Equipment
6 Pro Engineering seats
1 I-DEAS seat
7 CADKEY seats
3 Master CAM seats
1 Mold Flow-Mold Advisor seat
1 PowerMILL CAM seats


