Transforming your ideas into reality
Specializing in injection molding and blow molding of custom plastic parts.
Electronics
Technical Molding
Packaging
Automotive & Mobility
Re-cre8tivity & Innovtion
Re-cre8 molding design and technology focuses on delivering high-quality, innovative solutions, ensuring customer satisfaction, and maintaining environmental responsibility. It aims to enhance functionality and aesthetics, minimize environmental impact through efficient design and production processes, and provide cost-effective products while continuously improving technologies.
As a vertically integrated company, we offer full-service components and systems at competitive prices. Our capability to manufacture specific molds and machines enables us to create unique products. Our design and engineering team collaborates with clients to find the most suitable solutions based on market research.
Company Values
Re-cre8’s tooling and assembly processes accelerate time-to-market and provide cost savings for our clients. Our products remain safe and durable due to our excellent quality assurance policies and procedures. From conception to finished product, Re-cre8 maintains a reputation for innovation and originality through our optimal capabilities.
Re-cre8 specializes in short-run and mid-volume manufacturing of custom plastic parts. We produce high-quality injection-molded and blow-molded components for industrial and commercial products.
We have extensive experience molding a wide range of commodity and engineered resins. Our expertise in complex mold creation combines long-term offshore tooling partnerships with in-house mold design, maintenance, and plastic part molding. With comprehensive secondary operations and services, we transform your ideas from concept to finished product.
High-Quality Custom Plastic Parts in Any Volume
We prioritize low-volume injection molding just as much as our higher volume projects, ensuring every job receives the same level of care and attention, regardless of quantity.
Our skilled operators utilize state-of-the-art presses to deliver high-quality engineered plastic parts in any volume. We excel at manual inserts and hand loads for low-volume molding, while our robotic systems enhance efficiency in insert loading and finished part extraction when needed.
Molded Plastic Parts Made Easy
When you need custom molded plastic parts, we simplify the process. You’ll receive expert assistance and personalized attention at every step.
Design & Engineering
Parts and Molds Designed for Manufacturability. We help optimize parts and tooling to reduce costs, enhance quality, and improve functionality. Contact our engineering team early in your design process.
Part Design Assistance
Design Optimization
Leveraging our expertise in materials and molding, we recommend changes to decrease cycle time, prevent cosmetic issues, and reduce product costs.
Manufacturing Feasibility
We assess whether your design can be reliably manufactured to your specifications, identifying potential risks and suggesting solutions.
Material Evaluation
We assist in selecting resins that provide the desired characteristics at the lowest cost.
Mold Design Expertise
New Mold Designs
We excel in tool designs that ensure smooth manufacturing and high accuracy of molded parts. We are proficient in SolidWorks, MasterCAM, and all major design software.
Molding Cost Reductions
We suggest part design modifications to reduce tooling costs while maintaining all critical features.
Mold Evaluation and Maintenance
Our understanding of tool design and function allows us to troubleshoot quality issues during production and make necessary tool or process adjustments.
Research & Development
Our company’s open culture fosters collaboration and strategic planning across departments to find optimal solutions for our clients. The Advanced Product Development team works with all departments to create technologically advanced and unique product solutions. Additionally, the marketing team conducts research to support the development of new features and products based on consumer demands.
MANUFACTURING
We can create prototype molds from aluminum or pre-hardened steel, which can be used to injection-mold a limited number of parts. This aids in analyzing part manufacturability and mold design performance.
If your schedule or budget doesn’t allow for prototype tooling, machined and 3D printed prototypes are excellent alternatives. Our machined prototypes allow you to evaluate tolerances, material, and fit of the final molded part. 3D printed prototypes are quick and can be combined with precision machining to finish critical dimensions.
We work closely with you to understand your needs for both prototypes and final production parts, recommending the prototyping technique that delivers the results you need.
Prototypes: Rapid Prototypes of Plastic Molded Parts
We understand that multiple prototype iterations may be necessary to fully realize your ideas, and we're committed to investing in that process with you. We create prototypes quickly, analyze them to ensure they meet your requirements, and evaluate their manufacturability. Our prototypes help optimize both your tooling and molded part design, effectively moving your ideas to final design and production.
Types of Prototypes
• Molded Parts: Using low-cost prototype tooling and aluminum molds.
• Machined Parts: For high-tolerance precision plastic parts.
• 3D design and technology/Stereolithography (SLA): Fast and efficient for quick physical prototypes.
Secondary Operations & Services
From Finishing Touches to a Complete Product
After you have blow-molded or injection-molded parts, let us transform them into your complete finished product. We can add finishing touches, create assemblies or kits, and even produce and fill end-user packaging. We also offer inventory and delivery programs to meet your needs!
- Machining: Remove molding remnants; add holes and openings that can’t be created during the molding process.
- Ultrasonic Insertion: Use ultrasonic vibrations to insert a metal component, like a threaded screw insert, into a molded plastic part by reflowing the plastic around the metal.
- Heat Staking and Insertion: Insert a metal component into a molded plastic part using heat to reflow the plastic around the metal.
- Hot Stamping: Stamp precise, durable patterns with colored foils.
- Pad Printing: Add clear, detailed text or markings.
- Decorating: Add fine painted details, spot colors, or identification markings.
- Assembly: Combine multiple parts into complex products using various techniques.
- Riveting: Securely fasten multiple parts. Rivets can allow movement between parts, such as a product that swivels open or closed.
- Sonic Welding: Create complex assemblies of multiple molded parts, welded for very high bond strength.
- Gluing: Bond plastics using adhesives, epoxies, and UV-cured solvents.
- Filling: Add liquids or other contents to molded containers; cap or seal them for shipping.
- Kitting: Assemble multiple parts into bags that can be shipped to your customers or streamline your production lines.
- Labeling: Source and apply printed labels with safety warnings, instructions, model numbers, and more.
- Packaging: Source and procure professional-quality packaging and fill it with your product, ready for sale to your customer.
- Bar Coding: Add bar codes to your products or cartons to facilitate inventory management.
Inventory & Delivery
Molded Parts When You Need Them, Shipped from the USA
Get what you need, when you need it.
Our flexible inventory programs and strong record of on-time shipping have earned us “preferred” status with our largest customers. We are also committed to responding quickly and effectively to unplanned shipment requests.
Kanban and consignment programs ensure you have parts when needed. We ship from our 100,000-square-foot warehouse in Toledo, OH.
- Inventory Programs
- Bar Coding
- Kanban Programs
- Consignment Programs
- Fast Shipping from Toledo, OH
Quality Management
ISO9001 Certified Injection Molding and Blow Molding
ISO9001 Certified Injection Molding and Blow Molding
We routinely produce molded plastic parts with strict quality control requirements. Our quality management system is ISO9001 certified. We can provide the necessary quality documentation, from material certifications to capability studies to PPAPs. We regularly host facility and process audits for our customers.
Quality Processes and Documentation
- ISO9001 QMS
- Material Certifications
- First Article 100% Layout Inspection – All Cavities
- In-Process Inspection
- Capability Studies
- PPAPs
Fully Equipped QC Lab
- CMM with PC-DMIS Software
- RAM Optical Vision System
- Optical Comparator
- All Necessary Gauges, Pins, and Blocks
Ready to start service?
Contact Re-cre8 today and let our team of experts guide you toward more sustainable and efficient resource use.