Norck, a leading digital manufacturing company, manufactures parts with urethane casting extremely reliable, top quality, and fast for a wide range of industries including aerospace, defense, robotics,  industrial, automotive, electronics, energy, hardware, and consumer products. Our team of highly qualified engineers and cutting-edge facilities will provide you with quality products with the quickest turnaround time at a competitive price. Whether you have high volume production projects or rapid protototyping needs, Norck can manage it with the results better than expectations.

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Let’s give you some insight how Norck manfacture various parts with urethane casting.

It is a plastic molding process used to duplicate a master component. A silicone mold is formed around the element, then split into two halves and injected with urethane. Urethane Casting is used for low-volume production due to the soft material used in the process.

Urethane Casting offers many advantages:

• Cost of tooling: The tooling used in urethane casting is cheap.

• Accurate: Urethane casting can create detailed feature.

• Rapid prototyping: Can be used in rapid prototyping due to the simplicity of the process.

• FDA approved: Can produce parts for food and medical industries.

But there are some disadvantages as well:

    -  Post-processing is required: Post-molding operations are necessary as the molded parts come off the mold with burrs and excess material.

    -  Limited lifespan: The silicone mold may be soft and can’t withstand many shots.

Urethane Casting is made through four steps:

1. Producing the master component: The desired part is made via rapid prototyping or manually.

2. Creating the mold: Placing the master component into a box and then emerging it into liquid silicone.

3. Splitting the mold: After the silicone is solidified, it is removed from the box and split into two halves along the parting line.

4. Removing the master component: The master component is removed after slicing the mold.

5. Casting: The two halves are reassembled and filled with liquid urethane.

6. Put under pressure: After casting, the mold that contains the urethane is put into a high temperature and pressure chamber to solidify the urethane.

7. Extraction: The solid part is extracted from the mold, and excess material is removed.

Obtaining a fully functional part might require extra processing for features that can’t be made with the Urethane Casting process, such as taping. The designed part should follow Urethane Casting design guidelines.

Norck, a leading manufacturing company driven by technology, high quality data and artificial intelligence, focuses on manufacturing excellent quality of sheet metal parts, custom parts and components, a wide range of 3D printed parts and moldings. It is a single source for a wide of range of companies around the world for their need of sheet metal fabrication, CNC machining, 3D printing, and molding. 

Besides its own production capacity, Norck’s ability access to a huge amount of manufacturing capacity of its top quality partners across Europe and the U.S allows it to provide its customers with low and high volume production, rapid prototyping and a wide range of manufacturing services from sheet metal fabrication to 3D printing.

Norck’s data-driven AI approach to manufacturing maximizes its overall product and service quality, while minimizing the overall cost of its parts and services. This leads to high quality products, better inventory programs for our customers worldwide, better visibility for supply chain management.

Norck’s team of manufacturing engineers, mechnical engineers, quality engineers, supply chain engineers, industrial designers, artificial intelligence engineers, data scientists, and software application developers work in a unique and coherent way to provide your company with high quality manufacturing parts and services, better design for manufacturability and all driven by data and artificial intelligence.

As a single source for all your manufacturing needs, Norck minimizes your overhead cost, diversifies your supply chain, improves your parts’ design for manufacturability, significantly improves the quality of services and parts you outsource, minimizes suppliers’ risks, improves your purchasing power, and provides the goods and services with a philosophy of just in time.