Product Development

We offer product development teams with long experience creating and manufacturing hi performance products. Using Cad design together with state of the art in house SLA prototyping and cnc tooling facilities, we can get your products to market quickly, accurately and cost effectively, whether your idea takes the form of a rough sketch, cad drawings or a finished tooling transfer.

K5 Baseplate Project Design Preview 2004-2005
In House Industrial Design

As part of our product development programme we offer our customers access to an award winning in house industrial design team with over 20 years experience in product design. Many of our customers use these services which allow them to develop their product ideas without the direct investment in industrial design and engineering.
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CAD Engineering

Our team of CAD engineers is able to work with the following file formats to produce 2d and 3d files.Iges, Pro E, Rhino, Solidworks, Dwg, Dxf, Mastercam.
File transfers are by either ftp or email
Binding Base ID Surfaces

Prototypes & Models

Your designs can be verified quickly and accurately using our in house stereo lithography (SLA) rapid prototyping machine. Accurate models up to 50cm x 50cm can be produced in hours from cad files.
Additionally we can produce models using CNC or wood models. We are pleased to offer SLA models and rapid prototyping to our customers at no charge.
Binding Base SLA Prototype


Finished Binding

SLA Rapid Prototype Machine



Graphics & Decoration

The following options are available to enrich product design
Painting Chroming
Hydro Graphics Pad Printing
Screen Printing Dome Logos
Microinjection Logos Embroidery
Embossing HF Welding
Tooling Transfer

For customers that prefer to produce their own tooling we have long experience in arranging
tooling transfers from Europe, North America and Asia.
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Sample Development Timeline : Existing Tooling
Product Line
Prototype Leadtime
Sales Sample Delivery Leadtime
Days
Days
Bicycle Helmets Microshell
14
30
Skate Snow Helmets Hardshell
14
30
Protective Knee / Elbow
30
30
Snowboard Bindings
30
45
Snowboard Boots
30
70
Skate Shoes
30
70
Baby Strollers
14
45
Bicycle Trailers
14
45
New Product Categories (No Hard Tooling)
14
45
Material development
14
45

Sample Development Timeline : New Tooling
Size
Details
Industrial Design by Kuji
Industrial Design by
Customer
Tooling Transfer
from Customer
First Size
Design Brief and Sizing Information
1
First Size
Sketches
1-7
First Size
Cad Files 3D 1st Draft
7-14
First Size
1st SLA Model
14-16
First Size
Feedback On Model
16-18
First Size
Cad Files 3D 2nd Draft
18-20
First Size
2nd SLA Model
20-21
First Size
Approval of Model
21-23
First Size
Final Drawings 2D / 3D
23-30
1
First Size
CAM Programming
30-37
1-7
First Size
1st Size Tooling Production
37-85
7-57
First Size
1st Shot Parts
85-90
57-62
First Size
Amend Tooling
90-100
62-72
First Size
Final Shot Parts
100-105
72-77
1-10
First Size
Test Samples Approved Field Test
105-115
77-87
10-20
First Size
Sales Samples Production
115-145
87-117
20-50
All Size
Grading All Sizes
115-125
87-97
20-30
All Size
Tooling Production All Size
125-185
97-157
30-90
All Size
Purchase Order Received
120
90
25
All Size
All Size Approved
200
170
105
All Size
Commerical Production FOB Ningbo
230
200
135