Custom Plastic Injection Mold Making

A custom plastic injection mold maker has expertise with designing a plastic injection mold to manufacture a unique plastic part.  Custom injection mold making is used in several industries, especially those requiring new parts with new model releases such as the Automotive Industry.

When new projects require complex parts that fit into existing assemblies, or critical components used in interior automotive parts, you need a precision custom plastic injection mold making company.  At Michiana Global Mold, no part is too complex.  We excel at designing and manufacturing precision, tight tolerance, custom designed molds for critical components.  Our specialty is providing quality precision tools for complex, custom parts.  

Michiana Global Mold employs highly skilled designers and engineers, utilizing the latest technology to design the perfect tool for your complex part requirements.   Using Unigraphics software, we can create 2D and 3D models of the optimum design, quickly identifying critical dimensional areas prior to cutting steel.

Our designers and journeyman mold makers have vast experience designing complex tooling, even molds that require cam action or customized ejection systems.   Your custom injection mold will be designed to run in your press, and within your unique environment.   We’ll take your water lines and mounting plate into consideration for optimum placement, avoiding any future discrepancies with a smooth-running mold.

Full Service Injection Mold Making Supplier

Michiana Global Mold is a full-service injection mold making company, with over 600 years of combined experience.   Our knowledge, expertise with mold making, and vast resources give us the opportunity to provide the best value to our customers.  

We have a partnership with Modular Mold Solutions, located in China, giving us the ability to source tools overseas while still providing the same quality that you expect from a superior domestic mold making supplier.   

Both of our locations, in China and here in the US, are registered to ISO9001, following a strict quality policy in all processes.   We practice continual improvement on a regular basis, passing savings onto our customers with improved efficiencies and consistent quality.  

 

Michiana Global Mold is a full-service injection mold making company, providing high performance plastic and rubber molds to a multitude of industries including automotive, consumer products and electronics since 1964.  Contact us today to learn about our  free design consultation  and multi-tool discount for high volume projects.  

Expert Brass Forging Die Manufacturer

Copper and brass forgings provide high density parts with very accurate dimensions, achieving a high level of consistency.  Brass forgings are used in several commercial and industrial applications such as automotive, aerospace, marine, transportation, plumbing, lawn and garden, heating and cooling and even the medical industry.  Brass forgings are also used to provide durable strength in architectural applications.  

Due to the precision required of brass forgings used in critical applications, you need a brass forging die maker with expertise in tool making skills.  Michiana Global Mold is a full-service tool and machine shop with vast expertise in manufacturing various molds and tooling, made with top quality components and precision accuracy.  

We have a large capacity modern tool making facility located in the heart of the Midwest in Mishawaka, IN, where we have been supplying quality molds and tooling for over 50 years!  We specialize in complex, precision tooling and brass forging dies, manufactured to your specification within +/- .001”, and on time.  

Michiana Global tackles the complex designs and intricate tooling that others shy away from.  With confidence and experience, we can manufacture your brass forging dies within your tight tolerances, and deliver high volume projects on time.  We manufacture forging dies with a heat treated and polished finish, for single or mass produced production requirements.

With a full-service tool shop, we also do engineering changes if necessary, saving you time and money.  We utilize a full line of CNC machines manufacturing brass forging dies with cost effective, efficient solutions, giving you the best value.   

Our expert design an engineering team can provide a free design consultation or provide reverse engineering services with our experience and CAD/CAM software and equipment.   We adhere all processes to our strict quality policy as an ISO registered mold and machine shop.  

Established since 1964, Michiana Global Mold has over 50 years of experience providing custom, precision injection molds, tooling and forging dies.  Contact us today for a free design consultation and to see how we can save you money on your procurement of brass forging dies.  

Hot-to-Cold Injection Mold Making Experts

Most injection molders and injection mold makers are well familiar with the standard mold base, consisting of two halves, referred to as the A and B side of an injection mold.  The standard mold base will have two sides, and gates where the plastic will flow into the mold, through a ‘channel’ to get to the cavity or multiple cavities where the parts will mold.   This standard mold base is also called a cold runner mold.  

When the polymer resin hardens in the cavity to form the part, it hardens in the channel as well, which is also called the runner or the sprue.  In most cases, the runner is scrap, and will either be ground up and kept in raw material inventory as regrind to possibly be used in future jobs that will allow it, or it will simply be thrown away.  

Some injection molders grind up runners and keep the regrind material, but it can pile up and become an eyesore as most injection molding jobs require the use of 100% virgin material.  Even if it can be reused, it’s value is greatly diminished if it is stored in inventory.  Some molders feel it’s not worth the space on the floor to keep regrind material.  

If this runner is large, it can be a huge expense built into the part production, as the cost of the material is one of the biggest, if not the biggest expense of producing the part.   In some cases, especially for extremely small parts, the runner is larger than the part being produced.  In cases such as this it may be advisable to construct a hot runner mold.

A hot runner mold has a nozzle at each cavity supplying plastic directly into the cavity, rather than flowing through a ‘channel’, creating a runner.  This is a big saver if you can avoid creating a large runner for a high-volume production job.  

Hot to Cold Injection Mold

A hot runner mold may be worth the investment in cases of excess waste with high volume, although it is typically quite a bit more expensive than a cold runner mold.  Another option is called a hot-to-cold mold which is a hybrid of the two.  

Rather than have a nozzle at each cavity, there is a nozzle supplying a shortened runner system, supplying material to more than one cavity, thus greatly reducing your material cost.  A benefit of a hot-to-cold mold as opposed to a hot runner mold is the cost, it is generally less expensive as there are not as many nozzles and inner workings.  

A hot-to-cold mold is often the most economical option, providing significant cost savings with a reduced runner size, while not imposing the added cost burden of a full hot runner mold.  

Michiana Global Mold is experienced at constructing cold runner, hot runner, and hot-to-cold runner molds.  We have been in business for over 50 years, providing high performance tools with complex, precision designs.  Contact us today for a FREE design consultation and to learn more about how Michiana Global Mold can reduce your purchased injection mold costs.  

Industry Leading Innovative Mold Makers

It takes an in-depth knowledge of the mold making industry, along with experience and resources to provide top quality high performing injection molds that meet demanding customer expectations.  Michiana Global Mold excels at manufacturing complex, precision tooling required of demanding industries such as the Automotive industry.  We have the knowledge, the experience and the expertise in constructing high quality injection molds meeting tight tolerances within +/- .001”.

Michiana Global Mold is one of the leading injection mold makers in the industry, employing a highly skilled staff of journeyman mold makers and top mold designers with vast experience constructing high performing complex tooling.  We excel at the precision components that other mold makers might shy away from, leading the industry with high-tech mold making equipment combined with vast experience and knowledge.  Recently featured on the “World’s Greatest” television show for our innovative mold making services, we are a valued supplier to the Automotive industry, meeting and exceeding our customer requirements.  

With locations in the Midwest, USA, and an offshore molding facility in China, we can offer high quality tooling at the best available cost to you.  Both of our locations are registered to ISO9001, adhering to our strict quality policy while performing continual improvement activities.  Total customer satisfaction is our number one goal.  

When you are searching for a new supplier for your injection molded needs, let Michiana Global Mold show you how we can assist with your procured mold making costs.  We more than 50 years of experience satisfying the stringent requirements of demanding industries with even the most challenging of injection mold designs.  

We are experienced with specialized CAM action, complicated ejector system and lifters, and will accommodate tooling to your molding environment and custom mounting systems for your presses.   Established in 1964, we have the expertise, the knowledge and resources to provide the best value with high quality and high performance tooling, at the lowest available cost to you.  

Contact Michiana Global Mold today to speak with one of our expert design engineers about a FREE design consultation, discounts and rebates on multi-tool projects.  We are one of the leading injection mold makers in the industry, providing complex precision tooling within your specifications, and on time.    

Injection Mold Making Technology

Injection molding is the mass producing of plastic parts with a steel mold, an injection mold, designed with cavities to mold the desired part.  Injection molding uses thermoplastic resins, also called polymers, typically in a raw pellet form, that melt and flow into the cavities in the mold, forming the part, then it is ejected once it hardens.  The time that it takes for the mold to close, plastic to flow into the mold, the polymer to set and eject upon mold opening is called the cycle time.  Injection molders are always looking for ways to increase the cycle time, as time is money and when you can mold a part faster, you can mold more per hour, per day and per week.  

A skilled injections mold maker will have the knowledge to design the mold with the most appropriate attributes to reap the best cycle time while still delivering the desired part to the customer specification.  Michiana Global Mold is accustomed to constructing complex, precision injection molds within +/- .001”, which is about the thickness of a human hair.  

Injection Mold Making Equipment

Injection mold makers are well familiar with the precision equipment used to carve out steel cavities, forming a perfect plastic part.   Computer aided design, and computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) equipment is a key tool for designing a perfect tool.  The designers at Michiana Global Mold use Unigraphics CAD/CAM software to design the mold fit for producing a desired part.  This alerts the mold maker and the injection molder to any critical areas such as thin walls or a critical dimensional tolerance that must be met, prior to cutting steel.  

Milling machines, conventional EDM and wire EDM machines are a necessary tool, along with high speed CNC machines, drill presses and grinders.   Michiana Global mold, located in Mishawaka, Indiana with an offshore mold making facility in China, utilizes all of these mold making equipment tools, and more.  We have over 50 years of experience constructing complex tooling for demanding industries such as the Automotive industry where 0 ppm (parts per million) defects is the norm.  The key to a quality plastic injection molded part, is a quality injection mold.  

No one understands this better than Michiana Global Mold, your one stop shop for mold making and tooling services.  We do everything from constructing insert cavities and prototypes to full service high volume precision production tools.

Michiana Global Mold is Registered to ISO9001:2015, delivering custom injection molds to a wide array of industries demanding high volume long lasting performance with the best available pricing.  We offer rebates on multi-tool programs and discounts with offshore molding options.

Contact us today for a FREE design consultation, and to see how Michiana Global will provide value added services in your supply chain.

Offshore Injection Molds with Domestic Service

Michiana Global Mold, located in Mishawaka, Indiana, is a world class superior injection mold supplier with locations in the USA and China.  Our partnership with Modular Molds in China allows us to offer our customers offshore tooling with competitive prices, while still providing the same level of excellence they are accustomed to from our location in the United States.

Modular Molds is a large capacity, more than 40,000 square foot facility, with the capacity and resources to handle large and multi-tool programs.  This location has a primary focus on new tool builds, although any type of mold is available whether constructing inserts and cavities, or a partially completed full size mold to be finished in our Indiana location.   Our China location has the resources to provide full service injection mold making with additional resources to assure the highest of quality standards.

Modular Molds is also registered to ISO9001, just like our Indiana location, with both facilities following a strict quality policy with focus on continual improvement and total customer satisfaction.  Our China location offers use of the latest technology, such as:

• Mold-Flow Analysis
• Solid Works CAD software
• Unigraphics (NX7.5)
• AutoCAD
• Reverse Engineering
• PPAP Certifications

Both our Indiana location and our China location utilize the latest in technological advancements, with expertise in constructing complex, precision tooling.  Michiana Global Mold excels at custom mold making for tight tolerance, complex molds.  

The key to a quality part, begins with a quality tool.  At Michiana Global Mold, we offer the best in quality meeting our customer’s most demanding specifications, with quality tools delivered on time.  We offer offshore mold pricing with full domestic support.  All tools constructed in China undergo full inspection at our Indiana location prior to shipping.  We offer offshore molds with the same quality as our USA location, and discounts on multi-tool programs.  

Michiana Global Mold is your full service one stop shop for quality tooling and mold making services.  We have been manufacturing custom, precision injection molds for over 50 years, meeting and exceeding our customer expectations with quality tools delivered on time.  Contact us today for a FREE design consultation, and learn how Michiana Global Mold will add value to your supply chain.

Partner with an Experienced Injection Mold Maker

Injection mold making is a very critical, precision process that requires not only knowledge and resources, but also experience.  Experienced journeyman mold makers make all the difference in the world when it comes to creating a quality crafted injection mold versus a sloppy tool that barely makes the mark.   Having experience with building precision tools for a multitude of applications gives invaluable skill that cannot be learned anywhere else.  An experienced journeyman mold maker is a valuable component of the injection mold making process.

Experienced Journeyman Mold Makers at Michiana Global Mold

At Michiana Global Mold we employ a highly skilled design and engineering staff and master journeyman mold makers with in-depth knowledge and vast experience in designing and constructing precision, complex tooling.  We partner with you from the very beginning, coordinating on every aspect of your project with clear, transparent communication.  

Our experienced team draws on traditional methods, combined with our cutting-edge technology, to provide the best solution for your precision injection mold requirements.  Our large capacity facility in Indiana is equipped with conventional EDMs and wire EDMs, CAD/CAM engineering equipment, CNC milling centers, grinders, drills and saws.  

One of our knowledgeable staff can assist you in determining the best type of tool for your project, with the most cost-efficient method while not compromising precision quality.  Michiana Global Mold specializes in manufacturing tight tolerance, complex, precision tooling.  We have the experience and the resources to provide the perfect tool for your project, on time and within specification.  

Michiana Global Mold provides custom injection mold making for any required tooling operation.  We are experienced at manufacturing hot and cold runner molds, hot to cold molds, insert molds, shuttle molds and prototypes.  Our production molds are built with experienced craftsmanship, and only the best in quality components.  

Michiana Global Mold has been in business since 1964, serving the injection mold making industry for over 50 years!  We are an ISO9001:2015 Registered mold making facility with domestic and off-shore molding capacity.  We have the experience and the resources to provide quality molds for any molding application, and the resources to handle multi-tool packages within specification, and on time.  

Value Added ISO Registered Mold Makers

Sourcing with an ISO Registered injection mold maker gives added value and valuable benefits with assurances of providing a consistent high quality product.  Michiana Global Mold is an ISO Registered mold maker, providing top quality, high performance complex tools for the injection molding industry for over 50 years!  

We are experienced at designing injection molds for challenging parts that require tight geometric tolerances.  Michiana Global Mold combines years of experience with the latest in technological advancements to deliver complex injection molds to manufacture parts within your specifications as precise as +/-.001”!

Strict Quality Policy at MG Mold

At MG Mold, following a strict Quality Policy is something we’ve done since 1943.   Conforming to the globally recognized ISO standards only reinforces to our customers and partners that we hold the quality of our product, and your satisfaction in the highest regard.  We are experts at constructing complex injection molds for critical components, satisfying the Automotive industry for decades as a core supplier.  

Our Continual Improvement projects result in cost savings to you, as we improve our efficiency and cycle times, while still providing superior long lasting, high performance injection molds.  

Our Advanced Quality Planning Procedures (APQP) include a thorough evaluation of all design considerations, no matter the type of tool required.  From cavity inserts, prototypes, hot or cold runner tools, we conduct a thorough evaluation to develop the most appropriate design for and construction for your tool.

Our use of CAD/CAM sophisticated equipment provides automated efficiencies that we pass onto our customer.  You benefit from the years of experience and advanced computer systems utilized at Michiana Global Mold, in terms of a quality built tool producing the desired part within specification, delivered on time and most importantly manufactured properly the first time.  

We provide part sampling, and minor adjustments with our full-service mold construction, delivering a quality part on time due to a systematic approach and following our detailed checklist for designing diverse types of molds.  

Contact Michiana Global Mold today, a custom precision injection mold maker registered to ISO9001:2015.  We follow a detailed checklist for every tool design, assuring your total satisfaction with a high performing, top quality injection mold.