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Login with my Xometry account There are customer requirement for proto parts, How I can produce with low cost, shorter lead time.
Plastic resin- PA6/6T
The resin has high melting temperature around 380deg C.
Do we have any other options like silicon molding, Hand molds, Aluminium molding? to manufacture proto samples with low cost, short lead time?
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