Norck: Your Partner for Precision Production Tooling & High-Volume Injection Molding

Norck delivers expert production tooling solutions, empowering manufacturers across diverse industries to achieve high-quality, cost-effective injection molded parts at scale.

Capabilities for Production Tooling Success:

• Robust Mold Design & Engineering: Designing molds for high-volume production, optimized for longevity, efficient cycle times, and part consistency.
• Precision Machining & Tool Building: In-house capabilities for complex molds, utilizing high-performance tool steels for durability.
• Material Expertise: Guidance on selecting mold materials and heat treatments based on your plastic resin, production volume, and part quality requirements.
• Advanced Features: Integration of hot runners, complex side actions, multi-cavity layouts, and other features as needed for demanding applications.
• Rigorous Validation & Testing: Thorough mold tryouts and process optimization to ensure reliable production output and quality before shipment.

Norck's Engineering Edge: It's About Reliable Results

• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) for Both Part & Tool: Analyzing your part design in tandem with the mold for optimal long-term molding efficiency.
• Moldflow Analysis & Simulation: Predicting material behavior, cooling optimization, and potential defects to minimize costly tool iterations.
• Focus on Part Quality & Consistency: Designing molds that produce dimensionally accurate, defect-free parts over hundreds of thousands of cycles.
• Global Manufacturing & Support: Leveraging our network for cost-effective solutions, rigorous project management, and ongoing mold maintenance.

Why Choose Norck for Production Tooling?

• Minimize Risk, Maximize Output: Thorough engineering and robust tool design ensures your production runs smoothly, meeting quality and volume targets.
• Performance-Driven for Demanding Industries: Proven success in sectors where component failure isn't an option, and quality is paramount.
• Accelerated Time-to-Market: Efficient mold design, build, and validation processes minimize delays and get you to full production faster.
• End-to-End Solutions: From mold design and optimization through high-volume injection molding, part finishing, and assembly services.
• Your Tooling & Production Partner: We work with you to ensure your mold delivers the parts you need, reliably and cost-effectively.

There are mainly three toolings used for injection molding projects: prototype, bridge, and production tooling.

Production tooling is used for a high-volume injection molding process to mass produce a part or product. Its mold is made from rigid steel and contains a cooling system, which makes its cost higher than bridge or prototype tooling. Its material is heat treated to withstand up to a million shots.

Production tooling offers many advantages:

• Higher volume: Production toolings can produce a high volume of a part or assembly depending on their complexity.

• Repeatability: A significant number of manufactured parts will conform to specifications. And defects can be as low as 3.4 per million parts.

• Rapid fabrication process: The fabrication process time is cut short due to the simplicity of the process.

• Low production costs: The production cost is reduced due to the large number of produced parts which will decrease the cost per part.

But there are some disadvantages as well:

    -  Higher tooling cost: Production tooling cost is higher than prototype and bridge tooling due to the used material, treatment, and extra features such as a cooling system.

 - Long development time of tooling: Due to the complexity of the mold, the development time might be longer, thus the need for bridge tooling.

The production injection molding process is made through four steps:

1. Plastification: The plastic granules are transferred from the hopper to the mold using a rotating screw and molted using heaters.

2. Injection: The screw will advance to increase pressure in the injection chamber to inject the molted plastic into the mold. The two cavities are maintained close until the plastic solidifies

3. Cooling: After injection, the molted plastic will be cooled down to become solid using a cooling circuit. The screw will hold its position to hold the pressure inside the mold.

4. Ejection: After the molted plastic solidifies using a cooling circuit, the Die is opened, and the part is ejected via ejector pins. The screws will retreat to prepare for the next injection.

Obtaining a fully functional part might require extra processing for features that can’t be made with the Production tooling process, such as taping. The designed part should follow Production tooling design guidelines.

Norck is a technology-powered manufacturing leader specializing in CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding. Our intelligent, data-driven approach ensures exceptional quality, optimized costs, and seamless supply chain management for companies worldwide.

Key Services:

• Precision CNC Machining: High-quality custom parts and components.
• Advanced 3D Printing: Rapid prototyping and complex production parts.
• Sheet Metal Fabrication: Custom fabrication solutions across materials.
• Injection Molding: Scalable production for plastic parts.

Why Choose Norck?

• AI-Powered Manufacturing: Data and AI optimize our processes for superior quality, minimized costs, and supply chain visibility
• Vast Production Capacity: Our extensive partner network in Europe and the US guarantees both low and high-volume production.
• End-to-End Expertise: Our team of engineers, data scientists, and product developers ensure design for manufacturability and unparalleled service
• Single-Source Solution: Norck streamlines your supply chain, reduces overhead, enhances purchasing power, and delivers just-in-time results.

Experience the Norck difference. Get a quote fast for your manufacturing needs today!