Molding and materials
Production runs across a range of press sizes, with insert molding and unscrewing molds available for parts that need more than a straight-pull cavity.
Ask about your partQuoted today. Prototyped tomorrow. Delivered on your schedule.
Upload your drawing. Someone who knows molding writes back today. A 3D-printed prototype can be in your hands tomorrow. Parts show up when you’re ready to assemble.
Everything between your drawing and your finished part.
We take on the parts of the job that are easy to underquote and hard to deliver on: mold design, material behavior, and the discipline to run the same part the same way, shift after shift.
Tooling
Custom molds and support tooling built for the production volume you actually need: parting-line and hot-runner molds, hydraulic core pulls, and side actions.
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Design and prototyping
We work from your CAD files, sketches, or an existing part, and 3D-print prototypes in house, as soon as the next day, so you can check fit and form. We help settle material, wall sections, and moldability before a mold is ever cut.
Start a design conversationValue-added services
Secondary operations to hand you a finished part, not just a molded one, so the piece that leaves our floor is the piece that goes on your line.
See what we finish in-houseFinished parts, ready for your line.
Molding is only part of getting a product built. We handle the work after the press, so what reaches you is ready to use.
Assembly
We assemble molded parts, and the components that go with them, into sub-assemblies. That means fewer part numbers for you to buy, receive and track.
Laser engraving
Part numbers, logos, dates or serial numbers engraved permanently into the part, so it arrives identified and traceable.
Kitting
We combine the parts you specify into one kit per assembly, counted and packed, so your line pulls a single package instead of several.
Scheduled local delivery
We bring parts to your door a few times a week, timed to when you are ready to assemble. No warehouse space, no waiting on a container.
Need a different finishing step? Mention it in your quote request and we will tell you whether we can do it.
Already have a mold? Bring it to Quest.
Our tool room receives, inspects, repairs and qualifies molds built in China, Mexico or anywhere overseas, then runs your parts here in Connecticut.
24 presses. Running around the clock.
2223 Thomaston Ave, Waterbury. Two shifts keep committed volumes on schedule, and unattended cycles run overnight.
Presses
24
Your job is scheduled a week out with room to spare, and there is open press time to add a program or absorb a rush order without bumping anyone.
Schedule
2 shifts + lights-out
Production beyond a single shift, with unattended cycles extending capacity overnight.
Your files
CAD-native
Send native files, drawings, sketches, or an existing sample part. Whatever you have on hand.
Inside the shop.
A working floor and an in-house tool room in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Consistency is the product.
A part that is right the first time is worth more than a part that is right eventually. Our process is built around catching drift before it reaches your dock.
Process control
Set parameters are monitored run to run, so the part you approved in the first article matches the part in run five hundred.
Material discipline
Resin handling, drying, and traceability practices built to keep material properties consistent across a production run.
In-process inspection
Parts are checked against print at defined intervals during the run, on our own inspection bench, not just at the end of it.
A local shop that delivers.
We have been molding parts and building tools in Waterbury since 1987. We are close enough to bring your parts to your door ourselves, so we do.
Local delivery
A few times a week
Local manufacturers get their parts straight from our floor on a steady schedule, timed to when they are ready to assemble.
Compared with overseas
Nothing to store
Buying from overseas can mean holding up to nine months of inventory. Ours arrive when you need them, so there is no warehouse space tied up and no waiting on a shipment.
The people who quote your job are the same ones who answer the phone. Call 860-489-1404 and talk to someone who knows your parts.
Send us your part. Get a same-day quote back.
Upload a drawing or tell us what you know. A real person reviews every request and replies the same business day.
Not ready to send a part? Let’s talk first.
No drawing, no specs, no files. Tell us what you are working on, or just ask a question. A real person replies the same business day.