Custom Tooling Associates (CTA) provides Midwestern sales representation for a select group of moldmaking firms that offer the complete range of tooling services in plastic manufacturing.

*We represent an East Coast moldmaker that manufactures high-production, high-cavitation cap and closure tools that range from standard open/shut configurations to stack molds to unscrewing molds to unscrewing stack molds. They specialize in caps with living hinges in the food and cosmetics industries, medical products, spray pump devices and blow molds. Basically, if it’s high-cavitation and complicated, they can do it.

*CTA also represents a Midwestern moldmaker that excels in automotive, industrial, and recreational products, as well as thin wall food containers and blow molds. If you require a part design, or the tweaking of your part design, they are equipped, and willing, to do just that.

*Additionally, we represent a Rocky Mountain moldmaker that specializes in aluminum tools, quick-turn prototypes, and die cast molds. If you’ve never considered aluminum tooling, and want to know why you should, please contact us.

We also offer the following services:
*If you want to look at off-shore Asian tooling, CTA has the connections to find affordable tooling for you, and the ability to back it up with American service.
*If you are an OEM without molding facilities, we’ll be more than happy to connect you with one of several high-quality molders.
*If you’re a toolmaker, and are looking for high-rpm carbide cutters for hardened steel, or high-rpm diamond cutters for graphite, please contact us.

If your tooling needs are for large, machined-in-solid molds, we are capable of providing tools of any size. We specialize in P20 molds, but we will build any tool to your specifications. You'll get tool drawings for your approval before your mold is built, and you'll get sample parts for your approval before your mold is shipped.