Custom Mold Builds

Innovative Ideas call for custom solutions. Custom injection molds bring your inventions to life. Let's get your mold built the right way.

Introducing Olsen Tool & Plastics' Custom Mold Builds

Let us help build the best mold for your manufacturing needs. Our experienced team of mold builders closely examines the intricacies, specifications, and material requirements for every project. Through meticulous attention to detail, we tailor our process to create custom mold builds precisely suited to our customers' needs. We do not take shortcuts. Our step-by-step process ensures consistency and quality that lasts. Our team works together to always take care of you and your molds.

Design Consulting Services 
STEP ONE

Design Consulting Services

Olsen Tool & Plastics' team engages early on to identify issues and improve manufacturability. Our experienced toolmakers and in-house tool room provide support for your entire project. From feasibility to design consultation, we work with you to optimize the design to reduce costs and ensure effective production runs.

    • Design assistance for manufacturability and assembly

    • Working with engineering grade materials

    • CAD/CAM

    • Reverse engineering

    • Material selection

    • Mold flow analysis

    • Prototyping

    • Automation

    • Close tolerance molding

    • Textured & SPI/SPE finishes

    • Core pulls

    • Unscrewing molds

    • SolidWorks

    • Mastercam

Custom materials 
STEP TWO

Material Selection

We work closely with our customers and suppliers to help you select the best resin for your product’s performance needs and to optimize your mold design and manufacturing processes.  We work regularly with a variety of different materials.

    • High Density Polyethylene – HDPE

    • Low Density Polyethylene - LDPE

    • Polysulfone - PSU / PPSU

    • Thermoplastic elastomers - TES / TEO

    • Polyphenylene sulfide – PPS

    • Nylon

    • Polystyrene

    • Delrin/Acetal

    • Polycarbonate – PC

    • ABS

    • Polypropylene

    • Acrylic

    • Polyester – PBT

    • Glass Filled Compounds

    • Custom colored resins

Injection molding custom mold build 
STEP THREE

Build Your Mold

From simple to sophisticated, we build high-quality tools and molds that perform. Our skilled and seasoned tooling team works along side our pressroom personnel to resolve processing issues and to ensure your mold runs at its optimal level. We use only high-quality steel and include safety features, so you can be confident your mold will bring you value for years to come.

To improve your production yield, lower your product cost and meet your quality standards, we are also able to help you design and build any necessary fixtures and gages.

    • Multi-cavity molds

    • Family molds

    • Unscrewing molds

    • Over-molding

    • Insert molding

    • Side actions

    • Lifters

    • Collapsible cores

    • Hot manifold & hot tip

    • Hydraulic and servo-controlled core pull

    • Mold cavity protection

    • Revisions & repairs

    • Changeovers

    • Gages & fixtures

    • Robotics assisted manufacturing

custom injection molding machine in use 
STEP FOUR

Run Your Mold

We have the capacity for large production runs and the agility to meet your short run needs. As a specialist in complex injection molding, we have a variety of presses ranging from 10 to 430 tons and product sizes ranging from miniature up to 37 oz. In addition, with our in-house toolroom and attentive tooling consultants on hand, we can quickly resolve any issues to ensure a seamless production process.

Mold Maintenance Program 
STEP FIVE

Maintain, Store, and Transfer

Proper storage of your mold makes a big difference in production yield percentages, maintenance costs, and longevity. With our in-house, multi-step mold maintenance program, we store your molds and keep them in peak condition so they’re ready to run whenever you need them. If you need to transfer your mold to our facility, we regularly help customers manage their inventory and qualification requirements to ensure we keep your production lines running without interruption.

What Makes Us Different

  • Olsen Tool and Plastics, In-house Tool Room

    In-House Tool Room

    Unlike many other manufacturers, we have a full in-house tool room staffed by our experienced toolmakers. Our staff is skilled at helping our customers with design support, feasibility, new mold builds, mold modifications, and repairs.

  • Creative Design Services

    Embracing Creativity

    Our doors have been open for over 65 years because we enjoy the challenge of offering creative and cost-saving solutions. We’re not here just to build your mold and run your product. We’re here to optimize it.

  • Injection molding expertise

    Years of Expertise

    Our seasoned team of manufacturing experts has vast experience with building high-end tooling. Over the years, we have seen it all. We are comfortable and confident in achieving your manufacturing needs.

  • OTP delivers a personal “can do” response with in-house tooling, honest value and ISO 13485:2016 QMS certification –They have been the perfect solution for MonuMedical LLC.

    Dave Duncan MD, MonuMedical

  • The team at Olsen Tools & Plastics can only be described as Stellar! Beyond exceptional service, great pricing, quick turn around and top quality products delivered quickly. I couldn’t ask for a better partner.

    Lonnie, Aims Fasteners

  • Expediting deliveries has always been a plus with OTP. Even if it can't be done, I know that there was an effort given to try their best.

    Custom Product Customer

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