Plastic Injection Molder Offers Tooling, Additive Tooling, Emergency Repair and Molding
Veteran-owned plastic injection mold manufacturer and repair company Action Mold & Machining boasts a range of molding capabilities and services for the moldmaking industry.
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Action Mold & Machining is a veteran-owned plastic injection mold manufacturer and repair facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Quick-turn repairs for manufactures has made the company the “emergency room for production tools.” As well as performing engineering changes, preventive maintenance and repairs Action Mold & Machining also builds new tooling. The shop is open around the clock for emergency needs five days a week, with Saturday and Sunday available as needed.
Action Mold has a 10-machine molding facility. The company boasts CNC equipment capable of handling block sizes up to 13,000 lbs, with travels of 80” x 60” x 60”. Five-axis, CNC turning and horizontal boring, sinker and wire EDM as well as laser welding are additional capabilities. The latest investment at Action Mold & Machining is its additive manufacturing (AM) machine used to produce conformal-cooled and vented tooling for molding. The system is a 3D laser powder bed printing center with a build chamber that is 248 mm in X and Y and 300 mm in Z. The company’s design department uses Siemens NX with Moldwizard and Autodesk Power Mill.
