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custom prototype part

Prototyping

  • Iterate part designs quickly
  • Validate designs with functional parts
  • Accelerate speed to market

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on-demand production parts

Production

  • Manage demand volatility
  • Reduce total cost of ownership
  • Leverage cost-effective bridge tooling

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Polypropylene

Polypropylene

Polypropylene, one of the most commonly used plastics worldwide can now be 3D printed in SLS. High durability whilst both tough and flexible. Useful for both functioning prototypes and end use products.
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Insight

Insight

Our Insight video series will help you master digital manufacturing.
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Inspection services at Protolabs

Measurement and Inspection Services

For parts produced here at Protolabs, we offer a number of measurement and inspection services , ranging from part approval quality documentation to detailed dimensional inspection reports. Turnaround time for each process varies and is dependant on factors like part complexity and quantity.
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Protolabs CNC Surface finishing

CNC Surface finishing

Durable and decorative surface treatment for aluminium parts.
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thermoplastic injection moulding

On-Demand Production

We not only create custom prototypes extremely fast, we also provide a cost-effective way to manufacture on-demand, and end-use parts. See how rapid manufacturing can be used for low-volume production, bridge tooling, supply chain emergencies and more.
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Resources

DMLS Copper Protolabs
Blog

Making the Impossible Possible – Copper 3D Printing

Until recently if wanted copper parts, your best option to get the part designed and produced quickly was CNC machining...
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The DMLS process
Design Tip

How Metal 3D Printing is Redefining Part Design

Direct metal laser sintering brings unprecedented freedom to those willing to rethink traditional part design.
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Microfine green part
Blog

3D Printing Micro Features with MicroFine Green

Most parts can be built in normal resolution, but for parts with fine features around 0.1mm, high resolution may be required.
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hemosonics cad sketch of medical device manufactured by protolabs
Case Study

Manufacturing Helps Medtech Innovator Improve Patient Outcomes While Reducing Costs

HemoSonics used 3D printing, CNC machining, and injection moulding to quickly develop blood analysis machine
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We're turning 20! Thanks for getting us here.

 

Time flies! It has been two decades since we launched our small manufacturing startup with a single injection moulding press and CNC machine. Since then we’ve grown into a digital manufacturing company with facilities across three continents that house more than 1,000 machines, presses, and printers. In 2018 alone we shipped more than 47 million parts! Thank you for partnering with us over the years to push product innovation into the future. We can't wait to see what the next 20 years holds.

 

A Brand Evolution

 


"Protolabs has set up an unprecedented process that not only allowed me to take a concept to completion in a very short time, but the way they have automated everything turned out to be surprisingly helpful."

Jamie Hyneman, Executive Producer, Host and Engineer Mythbusters
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