Thermal Spray Coatings for Moulds

Reason for use: To produce a shoe mould quickly, thereby achieving a fast drawing board to shop turn around. Due to the rise in costs of producing a pair of shoe sole moulds using the conventional methods of casting or engraving, metalspray moulds have increased in popularity over the past decade

Reason for use: To offer a fast and low cost alternative, reducing the potential in some cases of tool distortion due to high residual plating stresses. Nickel electroforms are extensively used as tools for injection moulded plastics.

Reason for use: Manufacture of low cost moulds and tooling. The Metallisation Metal Spraying Process is in increasing use today for the manufacture of low cost moulds and tools for the plastics foundry and other industries. In this process, metal in the form of a molten spray, is deposited on to