Mantle partnered with third-party experts to collect data and characterize Mantle’s printed H13 tool steel. This material performance study compares the performance of Mantle’s H13 tool steel with traditional wrought H13 tool steel during standard toolmaking operations and during injection molding runs.

• Tool modification performance: milling, grinding, drilling, welding, EDM, and flatness properties
• Surface finish operation performance: texturing, polishing, coating, and plating
• Heat treatment
• Material properties
• Durability
• Molding example of high temperature, highly abrasive resin