Freeform injection molding service by Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials -

Mitsubishi Chemical will be offering Free Form Injection Molding (FIM) as a service, building on a prior collaboration in this process with Danish startup Addifab. With Addifab’s process, molds are 3D printed out of photopolymer resin and then cured. This mold is then filled and later dissolved similar to lost wax casting. Addifab performs short-run manufacturing with many more materials than are possible with 3D printing alone. Startup costs are lower than molding and the lead times are faster as well. Mistubishi Chemical will begin by offering FIM services at three locations: Mesa, AZ; Tielt, Belgium; and Tokyo, Japan. Mitsubishi will offer FIM as a service in Arizona in early Q3 and somewhere toward the end of 2020 at the other locations.