So me and my business partner are expanding, and are starting to need food safe material which there are no good ones in the resin we currently use. So that leads us to injection molding since there are a vast amount of food safe materials.

So currently we are looking into making an injection molding machine, since I can't find any that have the capacity we need without going to commercial ones which we dont have the money or space for yet. One of the products is a spoon rest that came out to 80g when cast in resin. We may be able to make it thinner, but thats a far cry from the 20g capacity hobby units have.


We are quite handy so making it wont be an issue, it is just getting the specs and design right.

I have found a bunch of videos and tutorials online and I feel I have a good grasp of it, but I was wondering if there are any key things I should be aware of when building it. Maybe things people have learned from making their own.


I hope this is the right place to ask this. Just trying to get as much info as I can before we start spending money. Maybe if anyone can link to some good tutorials