R&D Tool and Engineering Ltd

R&D Tool and Engineering supplies expert technical solutions to the global plastics industry, offering a wide range of products and design solutions to markets such as food and beverages, packaging, cosmetics, household and personal care sectors.

R&D is recognised as one of the world’s leading suppliers of tooling for the global packaging sector specializing in one stage, two stage injection stretch blow mold (ISBM) tooling for PET containers, injection blow mold (IBM) tooling, extrusion blow molds (EBM) and custom molds.

Other R&D divisions include a full injection molding service – design and build of tools and production of one/two shot moldings in clean room molding conditions – and rapid prototyping services such as SLA and RTV.

World Leaders in PET tooling

R&D Tool and Engineering offers a complete solution for all PET converters, large and small, with worldwide sales coverage, product evaluation, product design acrylic models, tool design, pilot tooling, production tooling, and technical service assistance.

State of the art technology keeps us at the forefront of serving the PET industry. Our manufacturing facilities situated in North America and Europe utilize 5 axis machining centers, thread grinding, laser marking and comprehensive inspection to ensure in tolerance tooling. All our manufacturing facilities are BS EN ISO 9001:2015 certified.

The benefits of R&D’s design know-how are seen in many areas of our tooling. Some of these are the patented short gate design, blow mold locater pins to ensure perfect match bottles at all times, preferential heat pots, hardened and tempered molding components and our proprietary hot runner system, “Genesis“. The total package clearly gives you the customer, a clear advantage.

We are known for our innovative technology, product reliability, on-time delivery and customer support. R&D continuously improves the quality of our products and service to meet or exceed our customers’ requirements.