Characterize Thermoplastic Materials Quickly and Easily, Using Just a Few Grams

The ideal benchtop solution for producing test specimens without tying up an industrial injection molding machine or wasting raw material.

Characterize Thermoplastic Materials Quickly and Easily, Using Just a Few Grams

The ideal benchtop solution for producing test specimens without tying up an industrial injection molding machine or wasting raw material.

Rethink the way you test materials

Traditionally, having a new polymer, composite or recycled plastic characterized by an injection molding subcontractor can require sending dozens of kilograms of pellets, incur high costs and tie up production equipment.

With HoliPress, you get a compact, benchtop injection molding solution for your laboratory.

Minimize material consumption: Mold test specimens using just a few dozen grams of plastic pellets or regrind.

Greater flexibility and faster turnaround: Produce specimens in-house as your R&D projects progress, without depending on an external supplier.

Use the right manufacturing process: Produce actual injection-molded specimens for reliable material characterization and mechanical testing.

A range designed for different temperatures and injection volumes

Our equipment is designed to accommodate a wide range of materials and testing requirements.

The right injection volume:

Need to produce an ISO 527-2 Type 1A tensile specimen? Our machines are well suited to this application.

High-temperature processing:

Developing or testing engineering and high-performance polymers such as PEEK, PEI or PPS that require processing temperatures above 450°C? The HoliPress High Temp reaches temperatures of up to 500°C, with built-in safety features.

Standardized and custom molds to suit your testing needs

To help you characterize your plastics, we offer a range of molds tailored to different types of analysis.

1. ISO-compliant metal molds

Specifically designed to produce standardized test specimens:

  • ISO 527-2 Type 1A and Type 1B specimens: Designed for tensile testing.
  • ISO 178 specimens: Designed for flexural testing.
  • Stepped molds: Evaluate material behavior at different wall thicknesses.
  • Rheology molds: Investigate material flow, spiral flow length and injection flow behavior.

2. Custom 3D-printed molds

Need to test a material using a specific part geometry? Use an SLA 3D printer (or DLP) to produce custom mold inserts in just a few hours, then injection-mold your test parts in the desired shape.

ISO 527-2 type 1A specimen
ISO 178 specimen
Stepped mold
Rheology mold
3D-printed mold

Why use HoliPress for material testing?

The right process

Real injection molding to produce representative specimens for material testing.

Standardized tooling

Metal molds designed to meet the relevant ISO specimen geometry requirements.

Fast turnaround

Produce injection-molded specimens in minutes, ready to be sent to a laboratory for tensile, mechanical strength, flexural, thermal or aging tests.

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