Programme details

The thousands of plastic objects that surround us in daily life are made by using moulds. Liquid plastic is injected into metal moulds like this one in very complicated shapes. A unique mould must be carved to correspond to each object. The tooling and mould manufacture industry is a very competitive sector of activity on an international scale with international clients. To cope with this, the European Fastool project is a collective research project carried out by institutions representing 38 SMEs all over Europe. The project is looking at the applications in modernising the facilities and skill bases and reducing programming times.