Injection mould toolmakers based in a state of the art manufacturing facility in Manchester, UK.
Our continual investment in people, process, quality, and ultra-accurate machine tools is what keeps us competitive and helps us to maintain the long term growth, stability and success of our customers by providing them with world class mould solutions.
With over 30 years experience in the industry, today we serve a truly international customer base and are recognised as a leader in our field. The design and manufacture of complex, highly efficient, ultra-precision moulds for demanding applications across all market sectors.
Multi-cavity mould tooling offers an efficient and economical approach for the large-scale production of precision moulded parts.
With more than 25 years of experience, we design and manufacture both multi-cavity and high-cavitation tooling for a wide variety of industry sectors. Our moulds are engineered to deliver durability, reduced cycle times, and stable processing performance, enabling reliable high-volume output.
Multi-cavity tooling is a type of injection mould designed to produce multiple identical components in a single moulding cycle. Instead of manufacturing one part at a time, the mould contains several cavities, each forming the same component simultaneously.
This approach is widely used in precision manufacturing because it increases production efficiency while reducing the cost per part. Well-designed multi-cavity tools are built for durability, consistent process performance, and faster cycle times, making them well suited for high-volume production.
Multi-cavity tooling is particularly valuable when large quantities of the same component are required with consistent quality and repeatability. It allows manufacturers to maintain stable production while achieving high throughput.
Typical applications include:
Medical and healthcare components
Automotive plastic parts
Consumer product components
Packaging and closures
Technical and industrial plastic parts
By producing multiple parts per cycle, multi-cavity tooling helps manufacturers reduce manufacturing time, optimise machine utilisation, and maintain tight tolerances across high production volumes.
At HT Tooling, multi-cavity and high-cavitation moulds are designed and manufactured to support high-volume, precision moulded component production across a range of industry sectors.
Examples of multi-cavity tooling capabilities include:
High-cavitation moulds designed for large production runs
Precision moulds requiring strict tolerance control and repeatability
Interchangeable tooling systems where components and spare parts are manufactured to tight tolerances so they can be used across multiple moulds or mould suites
Long-life production tools supported by million-shot guarantees, preventative maintenance programmes, and operator training
These tools are engineered to deliver durability, fast cycle times, and consistent process performance, ensuring reliable output throughout the life of the mould.
Multi-shot moulds allow the production of complex components by combining two or more polymers within a single manufacturing cycle. This versatile and cost-effective technology is increasingly popular as product designs demand greater functionality and precision. With over 30 years of experience, we specialise in designing and manufacturing injection moulds for multi-shot applications. We have developed and built our own 2K and 3K moulds and possess extensive expertise in a range of mould operation and transfer systems, including rotational platen, core back, self-indexing, and pick-and-place configurations.
Multi-shot tooling allows two different polymers to be injected into a single mould during one production cycle. This process creates complex, multi-material components in a single, seamless operation, improving efficiency and reducing assembly requirements.
Multi-shot tooling is ideal for products that require multiple materials, colours, or textures in a single part. It is commonly used in medical devices, automotive components, consumer goods, packaging, and electronics, where combining materials enhances functionality, durability, or aesthetics.
At CBE+, we have designed and manufactured 2K and 3K moulds for a wide range of applications. Examples include medical components with soft-touch grips, medical masks, automotive parts combining rigid and flexible polymers, and complex packaging closures with integrated seals.
CBE+ offers purpose-built prototype moulds that mirror the intended production process, providing a practical first step before investing in full-scale high-cavitation tooling. These prototypes allow clients to test product designs, validate moulding concepts, and define processes with confidence, while minimising risks associated with complex or high-precision tooling. Each prototype is engineered to replicate key production features, including gate location, cooling channels, ejection systems, sequencing, venting, and overall configuration. This approach helps verify feasibility, fine-tune the process, and accelerate time to market, ensuring a smoother transition to full production.
Prototype tooling involves creating moulds that replicate the intended production process on a smaller or trial scale. These tools allow testing, process validation, and design verification before committing to full-scale production tooling.
Where is Prototyping Tooling useful?
Prototype tooling is essential for complex or high-precision products, where process uncertainties, design validation, or risk reduction are critical. It is widely used in medical devices, automotive components, packaging, and consumer goods to ensure reliability and optimise production performance.
Examples of Prototyping Tooling
At CBE+ we provide prototype moulds that closely replicate production conditions. Examples include trial runs for high-cavitation medical components, complex packaging closures, multi-material parts, and automotive prototypes — all designed to test functionality, validate moulding concepts, and streamline the transition to full production.
At CBE+, every project begins with a thorough understanding of the client’s objectives, timelines, and budget. Only once we have a clear picture of the project parameters do we begin the design process.
Our in-house design team leverages world-class software, including Cimatron for injection mould tooling and Moldex 3D for Finite Element Analysis, to optimise every aspect of the mould design. This allows us to simulate the injection moulding process, refining cooling layouts, melt flow, packing, and warpage to ensure the final part is accurate, manufacturable, and efficient.
Using our Markforged and 3D Systems 3D printing machines, we can produce physical models of parts before tool design begins. This enables design validation, DFM analysis, and early detection of potential issues, ensuring the part meets client expectations.
Only after the design and simulations are fully approved by the client do we move into production, confident that the tooling will deliver reliable, high-quality results.
Accreditations
ISO 9001:2015
At CBE, our in-house repair services maximise tool longevity, reliability and performance while minimising production downtime. From routine maintenance and fault diagnosis to precision repairs and component refurbishment, our experienced engineers ensure high-quality workmanship and fast turnaround times. By restoring tool accuracy and extending service life, we help clients reduce costs, maintain productivity and achieve long-term reliability.
At CBE+, our in-house modification services are designed to ensure tools are precisely adapted to evolving production needs while maintaining peak performance and reliability. From design adjustments and component upgrades to complete tool reconfigurations, we manage every stage internally using advanced equipment and skilled engineers. Handling modifications on-site allows us to maintain strict quality control, deliver faster turnaround times, and ensure consistent tool performance across high-volume production environments. Our in-house capabilities enable us to optimize functionality, enhance efficiency, and extend tool life, helping clients stay productive, reduce costs, and respond quickly to changing manufacturing requirements.
We carry out mould modifications to improve performance or adapt tools to new production requirements. This includes altering part geometry, adjusting cooling layouts, improving venting, and upgrading components to enhance overall functionality. Our engineers carefully evaluate each tool before implementing precise modifications, ensuring the mould continues to operate efficiently while meeting updated specifications.
Customers benefit from Elite Tooling Solutions’ in-house modification services through faster turnaround times, precise adjustments, and minimal production disruption. In-house expertise ensures modifications maintain strict quality standards, optimize tool performance, and extend service life. This gives clients greater flexibility to adapt tooling to changing production needs, improves efficiency, reduces costs, and provides confidence that their equipment will continue to deliver reliable, high-quality results over the long term.
Our in-house servicing is designed to keep tools performing at their best, ensuring reliability and minimal production downtime. From routine maintenance and inspections to cleaning, lubrication, and preventative checks, we manage every stage internally using advanced equipment and experienced engineers. Handling servicing on-site allows us to maintain strict quality control, deliver faster turnaround times, and ensure consistent tool performance across high-volume production environments. Our in-house capabilities help optimize functionality, prevent unexpected failures, extend tool life, and support clients in maintaining productivity, reducing costs, and sustaining efficient operations.
We provide routine servicing of injection mould tools to maintain optimal performance and reliability. This includes thorough cleaning, lubrication, inspection of cavities and cores, and detailed checks of cooling channels and ejector systems. Our engineers carry out preventative maintenance using advanced in-house equipment, ensuring each tool operates efficiently and remains in peak working condition.
Customers benefit from Elite Tooling Solutions’ in-house servicing through improved tool reliability, reduced downtime, and longer equipment life. On-site expertise ensures maintenance is thorough, precise, and tailored to each tool’s requirements, minimizing the risk of unexpected failures. This keeps production running smoothly, reduces repair costs, and enhances overall efficiency, giving clients confidence that their tooling will consistently deliver high-quality, dependable performance over the long term.
At CBE+, we understand that original drawings or CAD files are not always available. Using Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM), we can accurately measure existing parts and recreate detailed drawings and CAD/CAM models.
This capability allows us to reproduce tools with precision, ensuring consistent and high-quality plastic injection moulding even when original documentation is missing. Our reverse engineering process provides a reliable solution for restoring or upgrading tooling, helping clients maintain production efficiency and part accuracy.
Accreditations
ISO 9001:2015
CBE+ is a leading UK-based plastic injection moulding company. With over 28 years of experience, we specialise in high-tolerance precision components for various sectors, including Oil and Gas, Automotive, Medical, and Electronics.
Our dedicated team of engineers, quality management, and logistics experts ensure that every product meets the highest standards. We pride ourselves on delivering on-time, quality components to meet the needs of our global and local customers.
Every project is tailored to our customers’ needs. From start to finish, we’ll ensure you have the perfect injection moulding solution.
Injection moulding is at the core of CBE+’s manufacturing expertise, enabling us to produce precision-engineered plastic components efficiently and consistently. The process involves injecting molten material into custom-designed mould tools under carefully controlled conditions, delivering excellent dimensional accuracy, repeatability and surface finish across both simple and complex geometries.
We work with a range of engineering and performance plastics, including:
Polypropylene (PP) – Borealis, Kingfa, M4U02, Moplen and other grades available
PBT – Crastin, Pocan, Slovaster
ABS – Novodur
Acetal – Hostaform
TPE / TPV – Santoprene and other rubber-based materials
Injection moulding is ideally suited to high-volume production, offering fast, repeatable manufacturing with minimal material waste. High levels of automation help reduce unit costs and the need for secondary operations, while maintaining consistent quality throughout every production run.
From prototype development through to full-scale production, we work closely with customers to manufacture components to exact specifications, supporting a wide range of industries and applications.
By combining advanced injection moulding technology with experienced engineering expertise, CBE+ delivers reliable, cost-effective manufacturing solutions without compromising on precision, consistency or performance.
Twin-shot moulding enables CBE+ to combine two or more materials within a single precision-engineered component. By moulding a second material over a pre-formed base part, the process creates a strong, permanent bond without the need for adhesives or mechanical fixings, producing durable, high-performance components with a seamless finish.
We work with a range of materials to achieve the required performance and functionality, including:
Rubber / TPE / TPV – Santoprene
Polypropylene (PP) – Borealis, Kingfa, M4U02, Moplen and other grades available
Twin-shot moulding is ideal for applications requiring different material properties within a single component. Combining a rigid substrate with a softer overmould can provide improved grip, cushioning, protection and sealing, while enhancing durability and user comfort.
By integrating multiple materials into one manufacturing process, twin-shot moulding also reduces the need for additional assembly, helping to improve production efficiency, product reliability and consistency.
CBE+ works closely with customers to develop twin-shot moulded components that meet specific functional, aesthetic and performance requirements. From prototype development through to full-scale production, our expertise enables the manufacture of innovative solutions for a wide range of applications.
By combining advanced twin-shot moulding technology with precision engineering expertise, CBE+ delivers consistent, efficient and high-quality components designed to perform reliably in demanding applications.
Overmoulding enables CBE+ to combine two or more materials into a single precision-engineered component. By moulding one material over a pre-formed substrate, the process creates a strong, durable bond without the need for adhesives or mechanical fasteners, resulting in components with enhanced functionality, durability and performance.
We work with a range of materials to meet specific application requirements, including:
Rubber / TPE / TPV – Santoprene
PA66 GF30 – Polyamide 66 (Nylon 66) reinforced with 30% glass fibre
Overmoulding combines the properties of different materials within a single component, offering benefits such as improved grip, impact resistance, environmental sealing and enhanced aesthetics. By integrating these materials during the moulding process, it can also reduce the need for secondary assembly, improving manufacturing efficiency and product consistency.
CBE+ works closely with customers to develop overmoulded components that meet specific performance, functional and aesthetic requirements. From prototype development through to full-scale production, our expertise supports applications where precision, reliability and durability are essential.
By combining advanced overmoulding technology with precision engineering expertise, CBE+ delivers efficient, cost-effective manufacturing solutions with consistent quality and performance.
CBE+ provides dedicated tool maintenance and repair services to keep customer tooling performing reliably and minimise production downtime. Our experienced engineers use specialist expertise and equipment to carry out maintenance efficiently, helping extend tool life and maintain consistent component quality.
By responding quickly to maintenance and repair requirements, we help return tooling to production with minimal disruption, keeping manufacturing processes running smoothly and efficiently.
CBE+ operates in accordance with ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management and ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management standards, demonstrating our commitment to quality, reliability, environmental responsibility and continuous improvement.
CBE+ provides end-to-end turnkey manufacturing solutions, supporting projects from initial concept and design through to tooling, production and final delivery. Our experienced team manages each stage of the process, providing a single point of contact and ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to specification.
Our engineering and development expertise supports innovative product design and robust tooling, while our project management capabilities help streamline production and minimise complexity. We can also support the commissioning of new tooling, as well as the reshoring and resourcing of existing tools.
Working closely with customers and suppliers, we coordinate every aspect of the project to help ensure delivery on time and within budget. Whether it involves a simple moulded component or a complex assembly, rigorous quality control is maintained throughout.
CBE+ provides in-house assembly services alongside our plastic injection moulding capabilities, delivering finished or part-finished components ready for integration into your production process.
By combining precision moulding with value-added assembly, we help simplify supply chains, reduce handling and secondary operations, and improve overall production efficiency. Our experienced team works to defined processes and rigorous quality checks to ensure consistent, reliable results.
Clips & Inserts – Installation of clips, inserts and other mechanical fixing elements to create functional, ready-to-use components.
Foaming – Application of foam materials for sealing, cushioning, insulation and vibration reduction.
Priming & Taping – Application of primers and adhesive tapes to support efficient installation and enhance product performance.
Component Assembly – Assembly of moulded and purchased parts into complete sub-assemblies or finished products, tailored to your manufacturing requirements.
Accreditations
ISO 9001:2015
ISO 14001:2015
We provide unmatched production capacity and turnaround times.
We have an extensive range of highly equipped in-house inspection and testing facilities.
We offer technical consultancy to develop and deliver exact procedures to meet your specific requirements
We have some of the largest plating tanks in Europe.
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