Rapid Tooling & Bridge Tooling Technology Providers

Catalyst Product Development Group Offers the proprietary STAT^TM (Sample Time Acceleration Technology) process for molding tool fabrication. / IN

Fast4m Fast4m offers a laminated tooling process for building injection molds, lost-foam molds, and similar items such as compression molds. The approach offers CNC-level accuracy, a long tool life and the ability to make truly enormous tools.

Ford Motor Company Offers the Sprayform^TM process, similar to RSP for steel tools. See description below.

Gates Solutions Ltd. The company supplies: stereolithography part wash systems, rapid manufacturing processes, rapid manufactured inserts and moulds, rapid manufacturing services, parts or tools. / UK

Metal Matrix Cast Composites, Inc. Net shape components of AL, CU and MG alloys combined with silicon carbide, alumina, boron carbide, and other particulate, fiber reinforcements using RP patterns. / MA

ProMetal^TM The technology is an application of MIT's Three Dimensional Printing^TM process to the fabrication of injection molds. The company is a division of ExOne.

Protoform® Protoform® supplies accurate, complex, and production-like injection molded prototype parts with Space Puzzle Molding® using simple-to-produce, cost effective CNC aluminum molds or rapid tools.

Raymor Industries, Inc. The company's Advanced Powders & Coatings Division provides a low-pressure process for making net-shape components. It is similar to the Rapid Solidification Process (RSP) described below. It starts with a mandrel or pattern that can be made by a variety means and coatings of metal or other materials are sprayed onto it to form a part. APC calls its process Vacuum Plasma Spraying (VPS) / Canada

RePliForm Inc. Nickel-ceramic composite tooling using RP masters. Also provides RP part finishing services. See below. (Successor company to CEMCOM.) / MD

RSP Tooling LLC Rapid Solidification Process (RSP) Tooling was developed by the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) in conjunction with several large corporations. Molten metal is sprayed at high velocity onto a ceramic or polymer pattern which may be generated by rapid prototyping or in any other way. Stainless steel, tool steels and many other metals can be used. As the metal droplets impact the form, they rapidly cool and harden to form a dense tool. / OH

Solidica The company is in the process of commercializing a tooling method based on the ultrasonic bonding of thin layers of aluminum. The process can be used to make net-shape parts, as well as embedded sensors and optical components. / MI