Lalan Rubber production order

A quantity in the hundreds sits in an awkward gap. It is far too many to make one at a time, but not enough to justify the cost and lead time of injection tooling — and tooling only makes sense once a design is frozen, which it often is not yet.

The part was prepared for repeat production rather than treated as a series of one-offs: the model set up for consistent output, and the run planned as a batch so every piece came out the same. Quality was controlled across the whole run, not sampled from the first few.

A completed large-scale order for Lalan Rubber, delivered without tooling investment. It is the answer to the most common doubt about 3D printing in an industrial context — that it is only good for prototypes.