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Vacuum casting: the perfect technology for high quality parts

Rapid prototyping technologies allow to realize single particular before production of any product.

Innovative technologies combined with ever higher performance materials allow to achieve not only aesthetic or functional prototypes but particular completely identical to the finished product. This is the case of personal manufacturing.

But often to do all the tests required before launching a new product on the market it is necessary to make pre-series.

In this case we resort to the use of silicone molds, molds with costs and time much lower compared to the final molds that allow to realize up to 50 pieces in the final material also transparent and with co-molding.

In the automotive world it is definitely the most suitable technology to achieve bumpers, dashboards, tabs and all plastics components for crash tests and for aesthetic testing.

This technology also has the advantage of being able to realize particular mass colored, glossy, opaque or transparent according to the needs of the model.

The master of these molds is usually made in stereolithography, thus eliminating the difficulty of printing particulars with complex geometries and undergrowth.

Summing up the advantages of vacuum casting are:

  • Rapidity of implementation
  • Cost reduction
  • Possibility of creating complex geometries
  • Use of definitive materials
  • Aesthetic and functional value of materials used for replicas.

Below are some examples of prototypes made from silicone molds.

Think Big

I believe that in life in general you always have to have big goals, unique destinations.

Only then we can get further than we ourselves can imagine. That is why when a customer asks us to make a project even the most complex our answer is always:
It can be done!

Technologies, knowledge and skills are fundamental but even more is the desire to reach any goal by overcoming any obstacle.

Think Big has always been one of our payoffs because our specialty is the production of large pieces.

We produce monolithic prototypes in stereolithography up to 2000x1000x1000mm with the great advantage of avoiding bonding of the pieces. Also through vacuum casting we can make typically pre-series of automotive components up to 2000mm, while with FDM technology we produce prototypes and pre-series of ABS, ASA and Ultem components up to 900mm.

The details that we use every day range from fan-making components, full tiles, handles to full doorsand. All thanks not only to our wonderful rapid prototyping machines, but also to all the work of fixing the 3D files we do before production and manual finishing necessary on each prototype before to its assembly on the vehicle and the paintwork.

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Skorpion Engineering
divisione additive manufacturing di Seltap Srl

Via Vittime del Vajont 3/1 – 10024 Moncalieri
tel: +39.011.965.82.97 | fax: +39.011.965.87.91
e-mail: skorpion@seltap.it
P.IVA 09899180013
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