From Paramount PDS

Paramount PDS, one of the few fully-integrated product development services specialists, offers highly-sophisticated expertise in urethane castings, which provide an important bridge between rapid prototyping and production.

Paramount is on the leading edge of urethane casting technology, offering a wide variety of materials to facilitate the creation of cast urethane parts or finished products, typically for market testing, clinical trials, pre-production evaluation and low volume production.

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Products & Services
Product Development Services
Product development services design, test, support, document, and certify industrial, commercial and consumer products.
Rapid Prototyping Services
Rapid prototyping automates the fabrication of a prototype part from a three-dimensional (3-D) CAD drawing. These physical models convey more complete information about the product earlier in the development cycle.
Mold Making Services
Mold making services design and build tooling and patterns for a variety of molding processes, including investment casting, permanent mold casting, sand casting, die casting, lost foam casting, powder metal, die forging, injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, thermoforming, compression molding, rotational molding and others.
Contract Manufacturing Services
Contract manufacturing services provide parts and equipment on behalf of original equipment manufacturers (OEM). The design and brand name remain the property of the OEM. Contract manufacturing may involve a complete range of services from design and prototyping to final production, assembly, and quality assurance for complete products.

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