Durable 3D-Printed Mold Inserts Drastically Cut Bottle Design Costs and Time

During my days as a structural package designer, when designing a new bottle, the last step for our department was to produce the CAD drawing of a new design. Then it went over to Engineering, who would tweak our CAD to produce the tooling drawing. Then we were ready to "cut steel," i.e. have the molds made for the blow-molding machine. That last step took months, and cost five figures. That was in the '90s, and today you can have steel cut for a new bottle mold in about 4 weeks. However,...