Injection mold builders · Evansville, Indiana · since 1979
We build molds.
We fix anyone’s.
New tooling designed, cut, fitted and confirmed working before it leaves. Molds we did not build are as welcome as the ones we did, and machining comes in when your own queue is full.
What we do
From a new mold to a single replacement part.
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Injection molds
Tools that run right from the first shot, SPI 101–105.
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5-axis machining
Parts that fit the first time, machined in one setup.
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Wire & sinker EDM
Detail too fine or too deep for a cutter to reach.
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Polishing
The finish the part spec calls for, A1 to D3, in-house.
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Mold repair
Any make, no matter who built it. The fast route back to production.
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Laser welding
Components saved instead of replaced.
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Custom machining
Capacity when your own machines are full. One part or a short run.
Mikron and Hermle five-axis, the Charmilles EDM bank on its Erowa robot, Okuma turning, 13 surface grinders, Zeiss inspection. Every machine, by model and count →
Why EDM work quotes lower here
Unattended hours cost less than attended ones.
An Erowa Linear robot loads three of the Charmilles EDMs without a person present, and three automated graphite mills keep electrodes ahead of the queue, so the cell still has work to do at two in the morning.
That matters to your number because the features it is burning, the deep ribs, the sharp internal corners and the detail no cutter can reach, are the slowest hours in a mold. On an EDM-heavy tool they are the hours that decide the price.
By day the same tool is back with journeymen at the bench, being fitted, polished and put together.
The work other shops send away
Undercuts and threads are routine here.
Cams, lifters and auto-unscrewing actions are the work this shop was built on: threaded closures without a secondary operation, contoured parting lines, multi-action tools that run for years. If your part has undercuts, threads or a geometry that made another shop hesitate, it belongs here.
Tooling for packaging, automotive, medical, appliance, consumer goods and plumbing manufacturers.
See how a mold gets built
The shop
Owned by the same family since 1979.
Eugene Elpers started Dexterous as C&E Mold in 1979 and has since retired. His sons Craig and Brian own it today. There is nobody between you and the people who build your tool, and when it comes back in five years for a repair, it comes back to the same shop.
The story since 1979 →What people ask before they call.
Does Dexterous Mold & Tool build injection molds?
Yes. Dexterous Mold & Tool has designed and built plastic injection molds in Evansville, Indiana since 1979, and still does: cut, fitted, assembled and confirmed working before the tool leaves the building. Repair is a second service, not the main one.
Can you build molds with undercuts, threads or unscrewing cores?
Yes, and it is the work the shop was built on. Cams, lifters and automatic unscrewing actions are routine here, including threaded closures that come off the press finished with no secondary operation.
Will you repair a mold another shop built?
Yes. Any make, whoever built it, foreign or domestic, and no obligation to have bought the tool here. Repair, engineering changes and laser welding all take outside tooling.
Where are you, and how far do you work?
2535 Locust Creek Dr, Evansville, Indiana 47720. Based in Evansville, Indiana, we build and repair tooling for molders and manufacturers across Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and the wider Midwest.
Send a part, a print, or a problem.
A part, a print or a sample is enough to get you a real answer. CAD files are welcome but never required, and the design engineers here regularly start from an idea. Your request goes to the people who quote the work, and if your program needs an NDA in place first, say so and we will sign one.
Rather call
Some jobs are quicker to describe out loud than to type, and a tool that is out of the press is one of them.
(812) 422-8046