{"id":186555,"date":"2022-01-08T03:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/?p=186555"},"modified":"2022-01-18T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T07:09:50","slug":"ecco-releases-3d-printed-footwear-tooling-for-direct-injection-pu-soles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/ecco-releases-3d-printed-footwear-tooling-for-direct-injection-pu-soles\/","title":{"rendered":"ECCO Releases 3D Printed Footwear Tooling for Direct Injection PU Soles"},"content":{"rendered":"

After extensive research on 3D print<\/a>ed footwear and 3D print<\/a>ed footwear tooling on Stratasys Origin systems, ECCO is now ready to offer 3D print<\/a>ed tooling for product development and commercial samples to the wider footwear market.<\/p>\n

Following upper materials and labor, molds are usually the next highest cost element of development and sampling in footwear. The cost is both time and money and its is amplified when making shoes with the DIP process. Leveraging a long history of innovation, a vertically integrated business with wholesale, retail and e-commerce timelines to manage, ECCO set out to use 3D print<\/a>ing<\/a> technology to speed up the development and reduce the time and cost of bringing new products to market.<\/p>\n

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Over the last 3 years, ECCO has worked with key machine (Stratasys\/Origin) and material (Henkel-Loctite) manufacturers to develop and hone the process of designing and building reliable 3D print<\/a>ed tooling for development and commercial samples. During this time the company produced in excess of 250 mold toolsets for use in development facilities and pushed the number of injection cycles beyond 1000 for a single mold set. After 1000 injections, the design team could not detect any mold wear or degradation in the finished shoes.<\/p>\n

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ECCO is now confident enough to reach out to the wider footwear market and offer brands and manufacturers the opportunity to use the ECCO IP-protected system of 3D print<\/a>ed inserts and aluminum frames for use in their own development and sampling processes.<\/p>\n

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The company intends to offer 4 packages\/options:<\/p>\n