
Moving small production runs from Asia to the EU
For tens of thousands of units, Asian injection moulding is hard to beat. For a few hundred, the arithmetic is often the other way round — and most businesses never redo the sum.
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For tens of thousands of units, Asian injection moulding is hard to beat. For a few hundred, the arithmetic is often the other way round — and most businesses never redo the sum.

Standard organisers are built for standard items. Clinical supplies are rarely that, and the cost of a tray that almost fits is paid every day in miscounts and wasted minutes.

A production on location in Malta needs props made on the island, fast, and in quantities nobody else wants to bother with. That is close to an exact description of what printing is good at.

A prototype exists to answer a question. Work out which question first, and the speed, the material and the price all follow from it.