Prototype Injection Molds to Get You Ready for Production
Accelerate Your Speed to Market with Expert-Built Pre-production Tooling
Prototyping is a critical step in turning your vision into reality. At SyBridge, we’re experts in designing and building pre-production molds that help you quickly and affordably validate your design, reduce overall program costs, eliminate risk, and accelerate your path to market. As your trusted partner, we help you move forward to production with confidence—bringing innovative products to life with the accuracy, quality, and consistency you demand.
Our Prototype Tooling Options
Choose from three specialized tooling solutions for efficient development:
- Cassette Molds: Easily loaded into a universal base, each cassette enables rapid production of small volumes of production-equivalent parts for testing.
- Modular Interchangeable Tooling: Streamlined inserts reduce material use and machining time, helping you change over quickly and reduce cost.
- Soft Steel & Aluminum Molds: Fast fabrication and high shot counts make these ideal for quick prototyping cycles.
Why Consider Pre-Production Tooling?
Validate Designs Fast and Affordably
- Test form, fit, and function
- Catch design and material issues
- Simulate and validate in weeks at lower cost
Ensure Production
Readiness
- Test materials, validate cooling, gating, and ejection choices
- Optimize cycle times and process parameters
- Avoid inefficiencies and downtime
Accelerate Time
to Market
- Iterate quickly through prototyping
- Prevent rework by catching issues early
- Minimize bottlenecks, reach market testing faster
Scale Up to Production, Seamlessly
We build prototype molds with future scalability in mind. Our production-minded approach informs final mold gating, cooling, and ejection requirements. This ensures a fast and consistent transition from prototype to high-cavitation production tooling, leveraging the same trusted partner for unparalleled continuity.
Fast, Flexible Pre-Production Solutions
Build Certainty Into
Your Process
Ensure product launch success with SyBridge’s pre-production tooling.z By identifying and addressing potential issues early, you can confirm critical functions and materials before scaling up. This proactive approach helps you avoid costly delays, ensures smoother production, and gives you the confidence to move forward with certainty.
FAQs
A pre-production injection mold is an early-stage mold designed to produce limited quantities of parts for testing and validation. It allows you to verify fit, form, and function before committing to a production-level mold, reducing risk, cost, and time-to-market.
Lead times typically ranging from 3–8 weeks to receive parts, depending on part complexity and tooling type / selected pre-production process.
Yes. Our prototype and unit molds are designed to produce parts with tight tolerances, intricate geometries, and functional features, enabling early validation of even the most complex designs. Our team works closely with you to recommend the optimal design and molding approach, ensuring you can test and validate what matters most before committing to production tooling.
We commonly use P-20 steel and aluminum for prototype tooling, depending on the part’s intended function, shot volume, and testing requirements.
We combine engineering expertise, advanced simulation, and precision tooling techniques with a customer-focused approach. Our proven experience ensures accuracy, consistency, and reduced time-to-market across diverse industries.
Experience the Sybridge Advantage
Full Lifecycle Capabilities
Global Scale, Local Support
Proven Expertise & Execution
Flexible, Customized Solutions
