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Angstrom Group Acquires Mantle to Drive Growth and Innovation in Toolmaking

Angstrom's investment provides Mantle with the resources to expand production capacity, strengthen its partner network and accelerate deployment of its hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing systems.

Additive Technologies for Injection Mold Tooling Ride Tailwinds

Common barriers to additive manufacturing adoption in toolmaking — and how they’re being lowered.

5 Trends in 3D Printed Injection Mold Tooling

3D printing has moved beyond conformal cooling, and is now being applied to injection molds more broadly. Observations on additively manufactured mold tooling from the Plastics Technology Expo — PTXPO 2025.

Mantle Offers Major Software Update for Automated Toolmaking System

New innovative toolpathing strategies decrease print times for tool inserts by up to 20% while improving surface finish on downfacing surfaces.

How 3D Printing Supports Toolmaking Workforce at This Multi-Scale Molder

At more than a century old, General Pattern has seen multiple evolutions in its business — the latest of which is the embrace of additive manufacturing technologies for mold tooling and beyond.

Custom Molder Applies Polymer, Metal 3D Printing for Productivity Gains

Custom injection molder Westec Plastics Corp. uses 3D printed end-of-arm tooling for automation as well as inserts printed in metal.

The Connector Conundrum: 3D Printed Mold Tooling’s Role in Innovation

ReelView Fishing faced an electronics obstacle in the development of its new technology for underwater video. Additive manufacturing for moldmaking allowed for the speed necessary to iterate to a solution. How inventors and invention will benefit from new ways of obtaining production-ready tooling.

Mantle’s 420 Stainless Steel Material Improves Toolmaking Processes

The hard strength material enables engineers and manufacturers to produce production-grade tooling up to 80% faster — enhancing strength, corrosion resistance and polishability for diverse applications, particularly medical devices and conformal cooling components.

NPE 2024: Additive Manufacturing Assisting, Advancing the Plastics Industry

Exhibitors and presenters at the plastics show emphasized 3D printing as a complement and aid to more traditional production processes.

4 Weeks from Design to Molded Part for Medical with Metal 3D Printed Tooling

Mold builder Westminster Tool applied the Trueshape process from Mantle to produce tooling to take a medical device from prototype mold to full-scale production in a matter of weeks.

In Casting and Molding, AM Simplifies Conventional Manufacturing

In new ways, additive processes are streamlining and enabling metal casting and plastic injection molding.

Westec Plastics Partners With Mantle to Speed Tooling Production

Using Mantle's technology, Westec says it can complete up to 70% of the job and have its toolmakers handle the specialized steps only humans can do.

Mantle: 3D Printed Molds Address Plastics Industry Lead Time and Skills Shortage

Company now shipping production systems. Steel mold tooling from its TrueShape process can be printed, shaped and sintered in days, and with fewer steps, compared to weeks of lead time for molds made conventionally.

3D Printing Molds With Metal Paste: The Mantle Process Explained (Video)

Metal paste is the starting point for a process using 3D printing, CNC shaping and sintering to deliver precise H13 or P20 steel tooling for plastics injection molding. Peter Zelinski talks through the steps of the process in this video filmed with Mantle equipment.

MoldMaking Conference Session Spotlight: 3D Printing

Want to learn about hybrid tooling inserts or the current state of 3D metal printing?

Mantle’s High-Precision Shaping for Automating Precision Toolmaking

The High-Precision Shaping feature expands the capabilities of Mantle’s hybrid metal 3D printing technology, enabling finer feature creation and dramatically expanding the geometries compatible with its TrueShape process.

Nicolet Plastics Succeeds Using Mantle's Hybrid Metal 3D Printing Method for Mold Tooling

A recent webinar explores Nicolet Plastics’ success using Trueshape Technology, Mantle’s approach to print injection mold tooling. The current challenges this technology addresses and alleviates in additive manufacturing confirms this method is effectively reducing lead times and cost constraints, while producing better inserts.

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Angstrom Group Acquires Mantle to Drive Growth and Innovation in Toolmaking

Additive Technologies for Injection Mold Tooling Ride Tailwinds

5 Trends in 3D Printed Injection Mold Tooling

Mantle Offers Major Software Update for Automated Toolmaking System

How 3D Printing Supports Toolmaking Workforce at This Multi-Scale Molder

Custom Molder Applies Polymer, Metal 3D Printing for Productivity Gains

The Connector Conundrum: 3D Printed Mold Tooling’s Role in Innovation

Mantle’s 420 Stainless Steel Material Improves Toolmaking Processes

NPE 2024: Additive Manufacturing Assisting, Advancing the Plastics Industry

4 Weeks from Design to Molded Part for Medical with Metal 3D Printed Tooling

In Casting and Molding, AM Simplifies Conventional Manufacturing

Westec Plastics Partners With Mantle to Speed Tooling Production

Mantle: 3D Printed Molds Address Plastics Industry Lead Time and Skills Shortage

3D Printing Molds With Metal Paste: The Mantle Process Explained (Video)

MoldMaking Conference Session Spotlight: 3D Printing

Mantle’s High-Precision Shaping for Automating Precision Toolmaking

Nicolet Plastics Succeeds Using Mantle's Hybrid Metal 3D Printing Method for Mold Tooling

6 Innovations From the Additive Manufacturing Pavilion at IMTS 2022

Additive Manufacturing at IMTS 2022: In the AM Pavilion, and Beyond: AM Radio #26A

Mantle Metal 3D Printing System for Toolmaking, Prototypes

3D Printing Enables Mold Shop to Rapidly Prototype Medical Parts (Video)

Mantle, Wepco Plastics Partner on 3D Printed Tooling Case Study

3 Types of 3D Printed Tooling for Injection Molding: AM Radio #16A

Mold Shop Evaluates Mantle Process for 3D Printing Steel Injection Molds

Over 1 Million End Parts Produced With Mold Made on Mantle Metal 3D Printers