Injection mold inserts

New materials for AM, like Ceramic resin printing, gives the opportunity for faster and cheaper printing. New or yet developed AM methods or post processing techniques could produce finer surface details eliminating the need for traditional manufacturing for complex injection molding tooling. Some polymer AM, like continuous resin printing, and metal AM, like single pass jetting, are reaching such fast print speeds that they are beginning to seriously compete for some of the traditional injection molding market. The future is surely full of new budding technologies, and that is exciting.