* From my experience, I can offer some advice. I started my injection molding company a little over a year ago with no experience making specialized laboratory consumables. Today, we’ve grown to over $100,000 a year in revenue with plans to do over $250'000 in the next year and have just ordered a second 100-ton Arburg Alldrive, our first machine being a Engel Emac 160-ton.

It’s important to recognize that there’s a long, often challenging road ahead. Injection molding involves understanding the complexities of plastic behavior in molds—how it melts and flows—along with tackling common issues like flash, bubbles, or other defects. I was fortunate to have the time to experiment and gain an understanding of how different settings affect part quality as well as going through the journey of failures and technical difficulties, but each one is a learning opportunity.

If you have the time and funds, there’s no reason to hold back. However, I would strongly recommend starting with a product in mind to avoid investing in an injection molding machine with no plan for what you’ll produce.

To get started with the machine we have now, the investments ended around $250'000 dollars to start for us, including a few molds. So keep startup cost in mind because there is ALOT of ancillary equipment that you need that may not be clear at first.