Located in Rutland, United Kingdom, Rutland Plastics is a family-owned custom injection moulding company that produces products for a wide
range of customers and industries. Because each project is unique, Rutland must create complementary jigs and fixtures to position and hold
the project’s components during manufacturing processes like assembly, gluing, drilling, and measuring. Although additive manufacturing has been
in use on-site for some time, the company invested in Stratasys’ FDM solutions only a few years ago.

Historically, manufacturing jigs were produced in the on-site toolroom using traditional materials (aluminium etc.) and methods. This process was timeconsuming, expensive, and produced heavy parts. Post-processing would require multiple stages, including turning, milling, drilling.
Alongside this, the major issue for the team was the durability of the parts.

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