Friends who understand silicone products must know that vulcanized silicone products must be molded first to make finished products, and in general, the cost is not low. Huayang Industry, as a manufacturer focusing on the mold opening customization of silicone products, often can meet customers who know nothing about the mold opening, and do not know how much it takes to customize the mold of silicone products.

Today, Xiaobian will tell you about the cost and process of customized mold opening of silicone products, hoping to help friends who have just contacted the silicone industry, so that they will know before planning mold customization.

Before opening the mold, we must first prepare the 3D drawing file (or design effect drawing) or physical sample of the silicone product. If the customer has only vague reference pictures and ideas, we can also help the customer turn the idea into a 3D design drawing and then open the mold and finally the dream come true, of course, this requires the silicone products factory to have the ability to draw and design, this general small factory is relatively lacking.

After confirming the drawing file, it is necessary to evaluate according to the customer's customized quantity and the total demand quantity, and confirm the size of the mold and the material used. Let's take a simple example: for example, if the customer needs more than 100,000, and there is long-term demand, the factory should suggest that the customer can open the mold larger and the mold material can be used for a longer life of special steel. There are two problems in this: one is that the more (or not) the number of holes, the lower the unit price of the product; Second, the life of the conventional P20 steel mold is only about 50,000 times. Therefore, we must tell the manufacturer before opening the mold, so that the manufacturer can give you a more cost-effective program.

Silicone products molding is mainly divided into two categories, one is molding, and the other is liquid silicone injection (also known as silicone injection). This means that the two types of molding corresponding to the silicone mold is also different, is a kind of pressing mold, generally only the upper and lower mold composed of two molds (there are also upper and lower), suitable for the production of solid silicone products with plate vulcanization machine. The other is the liquid silica gel mold, compared with a solid mold, the liquid silica gel mold structure is much more complex, its components are divided into: cold flow needle valve control layer, cold flow nozzle, heat insulation layer, mold, electric heating tube, auxiliary mold closing device, ejector device, etc., about the liquid silica gel mold we do a detailed introduction next time.

Finally, let's talk about how much it costs to customize the mold of silicone products. Solid silicone mold will be relatively cheaper, basically in the thousands to ten thousand, depending on the size of the mold and the structure of the product. The liquid silicone mold is a lot more expensive, basically more than tens of thousands.