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Quantity Required: 1000 units

Tooling Cost: £ 5000

Injection Moulding Unit Cost: £ 0.50

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A small enclosure to hold a PCB and camera set up. It’s thin profile makes it ideal for additive production due to its small XYZ profile. Injection moulding only becomes cheaper when ordering over 4150 units, meaning for the 500 required by the customer, printing with us was the obvious choice.

Cost to injection mould*:

Quantity	Unit Cost	Total
500	£2.11 + Tooling (£3,703.00)	£4,758.00
1,000	£1.77 + Tooling (£3,703.00)	£5,476.00
2,500	£1.50 + Tooling (£3,703.00)	£7,453.00
5,000	£1.07 + Tooling (£3,703.00)	£9,053.00

Cost to SLS 3D print:

Quantity	Unit Cost	Total
500	£2.86	£1,430.00
1,000	£2.67	£2,670.00
2,500	£2.67	£6,675.00
5,000	£2.67	£13,350.00

A custom flange for an angled fluid delivery system used in indoor irrigation systems. Due to the complex nature of the part, the tooling cost is relatively high, meaning manufacturing this additively is viable up to about 1,900 units.

Cost to injection mould*:

Quantity	Unit Cost	Total
500	£2.82 + Tooling (£4,817.00)	£6,227.00
1,000	£2.49 + Tooling (£4,817.00)	£7,307.00
2,500	£2.21 + Tooling (£4,817.00)	£10,342.00
5,000	£1.75 + Tooling (£4,817.00)	£13,567.00

Cost to SLS 3D print:

Quantity	Unit Cost	Total
500	£4.93	£2,465.00
1,000	£4.60	£4,600.00
2,500	£4.60	£11,500.00
5,000	£4.60	£23,000.00

This end cap is an aesthetic solution for a breather pipe. This part falls below the minimum part cost, so has a dramatic price drop with quantity. Purchasing a single item would be £1 + vat, but this drops right down to £0.46 when ordering 1,000 or more units.

Cost to injection mould*:

Quantity	Unit Cost	Total
500	£2.07 + Tooling (£3078.00)	£4,113.00
1,000	£1.73 + Tooling (£3078.00)	£4,808.00
2,500	£1.45 + Tooling (£3078.00)	£6,703.00
5,000	£1.02 + Tooling (£3078.00)	£8,178.00

Cost to SLS 3D print:

Quantity	Unit Cost	Total
500	£0.49	£245.00
1,000	£0.46	£460.00
2,500	£0.46	£1,150.00
5,000	£0.46	£2,300.00