In many cases, the mold is the most expensive piece of equipment used in an injection molding process. This is due to the complexity of the mold’s design, which requires precise characteristics and manufacturing methods to assemble a functional unit.
For instance, if you wanted 1,000 washers per year, we would recommend a single cavity mold, meaning it makes one washer per machine cycle. In that case, the mold would probably be $1,000-2,000.
However, needing 100,000 Remote Controllers every month is a different story. For this requirement, you would build a 12 cavity hardened “family” mold which would make four Fronts, four Backs, and four Button Trees every cycle. For this type of mold you’d better have $60-$80,000 or more to invest.
