“An injection mold is a very complex assembly and must be built to withstand very high pressures. We immediately recognized advantages of using printed metal parts in our molds, including the ability to produce mold inserts quickly, the ability to design cooling channels in a way that we could not before— conforming to the cavity geometry, and also light-weighting parts to help reduce operator fatigue. What used to take two weeks with outside vendors now takes a couple of days. We can increase build capacity and diversify, and we can capture more business—especially in prototyping. We couldn’t compete on turnaround time before.”