As a product developer you need fast and accurate quotations from your supplier to get your project started. In turn, manufacturing suppliers need accurate information from you to make sure they produce exactly the parts you expect. This is why we try to offer helpful...
Polyurethane vacuum casting is a great way to make quick-turnaround rapid prototypes. Solid master patterns are used to cast soft silicone rubber molds, and these molds yield up to twenty copies of the original with excellent surface finishes and only a minimal...
If you’re trying to bring a new product idea to market, there may be more than one manufacturing method that will suit your needs. Each of these processes used at Star Rapid has advantages for lead time, precision, start-up costs, volume and more. ...
Vacuum casting is a fast and effective method for making high-quality rapid prototypes and end-use parts in low volumes. The process uses pourable casting resins and reusable silicone molds to make perfect copies of master patterns.Such copies are useful in many...
Most people think of paint in a very general sense, meaning any colored liquid film that we put on the surface of something to decorate and protect it. While basically true, that definition doesn’t do justice to the sophisticated chemistry underlying modern...
We love to help our customers improve their product designs by offering insights gleaned from actual case studies. Recently, we worked with one customer to help them build two multi-cavity molds for a product that will be used in a high temperature environment. From a...
