November 20th, 2011 
Question by Verdi: How much does it cost for an injection mold machine?
I want to buy an injection mold machine to manufacture my supplies. Whats the most expensive and cheapest machine? Which ones are the best? Whats needed to make my plastic pieces after i buy the machine?
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Answer by guiri
It depends how big it is.
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Traditionally, injection molding has been a production process featuring high initial (tooling) costs and low production costs. It has not been until the recent introduction of aerospace inspired metal alloys combined with sophisticated electronic control of machine functions that truly inexpensive injection molds, capable of serious production have been possible. Up until the late 1980s, soft injection molds, usually made of aluminum, were used for prototyping, seldom being used for more than 1000 parts. Modern alloys, along with molding machines designed to apply molding pressures more evenly and gently, have resulted in the ability to design low cost injection molds capable of running as many as a million parts. These economical injection molds can cost from 1/4 to 1/2 as much as traditional hard steel molds. At the same time that improvements were being made in machines and mold technology, the tools and procedures for rapid changeover from one mold and material to another mold and material were being developed, resulting in low cost injection molding for short runs.
Below are several examples, with prices, of injection molded items produced with economical soft tooling from low cost aluminum molds. There is a range of sizes and materials demonstrated, as well as items of different orders of complexity.Contnued…