Tooling Design, Tool Design Engineering

Tooling design in plastic thermoforming is the process of designing the molds (tools) used to form and shape the plastic sheets into the desired parts or products. Tooling is essential for achieving accurate and high quality parts efficiently. Pendable Packaging offers tooling engineering services to assist our customers in what can be considered the most critical phase of design and development. We work closely with our customers to cut down on costly errors that can occur down the road if not done correctly.

Pendable Packaging utilizes a common "base" tool that fosters the vacuum, heating and cooling components of the production tool and for new tools we create "inserts" that are added to the tops of these bases. This helps us bring you incredibly cost effective tooling (typically starting at $2,000) and fast turnaround times. Pendable Packaging takes pride in the fact that we have some of the most cost effective new tooling in industry.

Tooling design involves several key considerations, including:

• Part Design
• Material Selection
• Tooling Type
• Mold Design
• Heating & Cooling
• Venting
• Trimming & Finishing