Understanding the Key Factors That Influence Mould Tooling Costs // Pentagon Plastics Blog

Investment into mould tooling can be significant, and with each project, there are several variables that will impact the final mould tool costings. Pentagon Plastics Group often get asked for a ballpark estimation for the manufacture of a new product that is still in the early design phase of a project. This is not as straightforward a request as it may initially seem, as there are a number of complex factors to take into consideration.

These include the number of impressions, hot or cold runner feeds, material choice of the mould tool and the complexity of the component to be manufactured.

The complexity of a component will significantly affect tool costings with consideration to the following elements including multi-stage ejection, side actions, inclined ejectors, up and aways, over moulded inserts, unscrewing, collapsing cores, actuated cores, camming cores, in mould closing, interchangeable inserts, sacrificial inserts (in high wear or damage susceptible areas), fixed half ejection, air blast, air assisted ejection, cavity pressure sensors, valve gates, conformal cooling and hand loaded inserts.

You can see that there are a significant number of contributing elements to the cost of a mould tooling solution, which is why it is imperative to obtain ‘like-for-like’ quotations from your chosen suppliers.

If you are looking to obtain a quotation for your next plastic injection moulding project and want to optimise your ROI, contact our in-house Engineering Team on 01403 264397 or email websales@pentagonplastics.co.uk.

All tools are quoted and fully manufactured on-site here in the UK; you can even pop in and see the tool as it is constructed!

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