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Summit by Fathom //

Plastic Injection Molding – Accelerated

  • Integrated Tooling & Molding Services
  • Deep Expertise in Multiple Types of Molding
  • Rapid Prototyping & Part Design Optimization

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Bring Your Products to Market Faster
With Our End-to-End Injection Molding Services & Deep Expertise

Integrated Tool Building & Injection Molding

Are you looking for an injection molder with integrated services that can help you iterate your prototype part designs, prepare them for production, build high-quality injection mold tools and produce parts that are on budget and spec?

At Summit by Fathom, we provide high-quality mold design, precision mold making and plastic injection molding services for prototype and small-to-medium volume projects. Our experts have decades of experience providing unique solutions to our customers’ manufacturing challenges. We can do the same for you!

Services & Capabilities

Part & Tool Design

We can help you optimize your part and tool designs for manufacturability and will conduct detailed DFM analyses upon request. Our core team has over 20 years of experience in tool building and plastic injection molding. That means we’re pros at uncovering potential problem areas that may be based on the geometry of your part.

Tool Building

We produce multiple types of steel and aluminum tools to meet all your custom injection molding needs. Most molders must rely on an outside partner to build tooling, which can lead to delays and tool quality issues. Our fully automated tool room can run lights out, enabling us to get your injection mold tools built, qualified and into production quickly.

Multi-Cavity // We build tools that can mold multiple parts in a single shot. This is especially valuable for customers who require large quantities of small parts.

Overmolding // A part is first molded using rigid plastic. A softer material is then molded over the top of it in a single tool.

Two-Shot Molding // We build bi-injection rotary tools that enable two-shot molding – a process where two materials are molded together in a single cycle.

Insert Molding // A metal part, such as a threaded component that will accept a screw, is placed within the tool and plastic is molded around it.

MUD Molding // In a master unit die (MUD), interchangeable tools sit in a frame and can be swapped in a matter of minutes. It can be used to produce multiple variations of customized parts.

Injection Molding

Our team has extensive experience in molding many types of thermoplastic materials and setting up gates and cooling for best results. Our plastic injection molding presses can also run lights out, which helps keep your parts affordable.

For Every Step In Your
Product Lifecycle

From part design and tool building to prototyping and production, Summit by Fathom can manage your custom injection molding needs from start to finish. We offer an integrated suite of on-demand services that can help you accelerate your time to market, backed by over four decades of plastic injection molding experience and expertise.

Deep Expertise for All Your Injection Molding Needs
Talk to our experts today to kick off your next project!

Prototype to Production //
Why Our Customers Choose Summit by Fathom

Prototyping // Larger plastic injection molding operations won’t consider building prototype tools and parts, because it ties up too much of their resources and doesn’t guarantee a return on their investment. Here at Summit, it’s one of our specialties. Our experienced staff can help you quickly iterate your way to a cost-effective final design.

Engineering Support // Our experienced team frequently conducts mold flow analyses (MFAs) to help customers optimize their part designs for manufacturability. They also suggest improvements to tooling that can save them a significant amount of time, money and headaches.


“I have worked with Summit Tooling and Summit Plastics on a variety of projects. Summit brings an open mind to each project with a positive attitude to tailor their processes to meet my needs from part design to mold build and molding. They work hard to make sure my needs are met with a professional attitude, expertise, on-time delivery and competitive pricing.” — Bob Rohr, RDR Design and Development LLC

Applications

We mold a wide variety of products for our customers, including:

  • Dental spacers
  • Medication delivery devices
  • Bottle closures
  • Automotive components
  • Screwdriver handles
  • Material handling tools

Industries

  • Medical
  • Automotive
  • Consumer products


“From the entire team at Medical Murray, we want to thank you for your support and knowledge. Our business is developing ways to mold things that most molders say cannot be done. With your company’s tool-building knowledge and dedication to quality, you have helped make our company successful. It is a pleasure to work with a company whose personnel are willing and able to think out of their box. With your commitment to staying on the cutting edge of technology, you are able to supply tooling to us that is right, on time and works first shot.” — Norman R Akens, Manager, Molding

US-Based Injection Molding & Beyond

Summit was founded in 1996 to design and manufacture precision prototypes and production molds for a variety of injection molding applications. Customers range from medical, pharmaceutical, consumer packaging, automotive and the electric utilities.

The company grew from one employee 29 years ago to 25 team members today. One key to its growth has been investing in the latest machining technologies and adopting processes that enable it to produce the most challenging small to mid-sized plastic injection molds.

Summit’s machine tools and injection molding presses can be operated on a lights-out basis. This enables it to produce tooling and parts quickly and efficiently.

Service Area

Summit is located in McHenry, Illinois but services all the following local areas and more:

Illinois // Chicago | Aurora | Naperville | Joliet | Rockford | Springfield | Elgin | Peoria | Champaign | Elk Grove

Indiana // Gary | South Bend | Fort Wayne | Indianapolis

Wisconsin // Madison | Milwaukee | Racine | Kenosha

Iowa // Davenport | Iowa City | Cedar Rapids

Why Choose Summit by Fathom?

At Summit by Fathom, we combine injection mold tool design, building, qualification and production with a wealth of knowledge and expertise – all under one roof. One point of accountability enables us to streamline your project, solve problems faster and deliver better-quality parts.

Let us help you tackle your next challenging plastic injection molding project!

Across National
Time Zones

Precision manufacturing
from coast to coast.

HEADQUARTERS //
1050 Walnut Ridge Drive
Hartland, WI 53029
877-328-4668

ARIZONA
444 W. 21st St. Ste. 101
Tempe, AZ 85282
480-966-2300

COLORADO
7770 Washington St.
Denver, CO 80229
303-288-6855

ILLINOIS
1207 Adams Drive
McHenry, IL 60051
815-385-7500

1401 Brummel Ave
Elk Grove, IL 60007
847-952-8088

MINNESOTA
13758 Johnson Street NE
Ham Lake, MN 55304
763-755-7575

NEW YORK
1920 Slaterville Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-277-7070

401 W. Shore Blvd.
Newark, NY 14513
315-331-7680

TEXAS
1513 Sam Bass Rd.
Round Rock, TX 78660
512-255-1477

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