Packaging industry

Looking for a reliable partner in the manufacturing of packaging molds and automation components

GF Machining Solution helps you prepare for the technical, business and environmental challenges in the dynamic landscape of global packaging mold manufacturing. Discover our best-in-class solutions built on decades of customer satisfaction.

We help you solve your challenges

Whether your products are multi-precision component molds for caps and closures, blow molds requiring high surface finish for PET bottles, complex 3D cavity mold inserts for cosmetics or new multipurpose rigid packaging, GF Machining Solutions is committed to bringing you a differentiated solution, delivering long-term customer added value.

Create complex blow molds

GF Machining Solutions provides a unique comprehensive solution combining 5 axis high-speed dynamic Milling to create mold cavities, and Laser texturing to apply textural designs on molds for direct replication on injected plastic parts, meeting emerging consumer aesthetic and functional needs with unique branding.

Discover our expertise in Packaging

Caps and closures

Modern caps and closures require longer lifetimes, reduced waste and added functionalities, all of which highly impact the design and material choices in manufacturing closure systems. See how our Milling, Die-sinking EDM and Laser solutions can help you tackle these design challenges.

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Bottles

The PET bottle industry undergoes major revamps aimed at reducing wastage, product improvement and supply chain sustainability. Discover how our Milling, Laser and Additive Manufacturing solutions can support your mold manufacturing.

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Cosmetics

Modern consumers of the cosmetic industry demand reusability of products, reduced waste as well as attractive high-gloss packaging. Learn how our 5-axis Milling and Laser solutions can help you create complex mold inserts.

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Rigid packaging

Rigid plastic containers are produced with a variety of material. PET, PP, PS, biodegradable resins provide structural and environmental protection to packaged food products during storage and transportation. Fast and efficient cavity machining can be performed with 5-axis Milling, Laser or Die-sinking EDM.

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Other key applications

Embossing roll

Our LASER S 1000 U specializes in texturing embossing rolls with complete design freedom, setup flexibility and digitally controlled precision.

Packaging solution line precision components

Our high-end EDM solutions facilitate process integrity by accurately producing critical components in cigarette, drink, pharmaceutical packaging lines.

Inspired packaging design

In partnership with Roctool we developed a nature-inspired packaging design. The mold tool was prepared on our MILL S 400 and textured with our LASER S 1000 U.

    Our technologies

    Milling - Optimal process stability

    Pioneering the world of five-axis milling with Mikron Mill platforms, GF Machining Solutions is committed to increase the productivity of manufacturers, thanks to high-speed and high-performance solutions, our dynamic Step-Tec Spindles, our application-centric smart machine modules and the agility resulting from our System 3R Tooling and Automation solutions.

    3D Laser Texturing - Limitless texture design possibilities

    GF Machining Solutions' fully digitized Laser solutions accurately texture, engrave, microstructure, mark and label 2D and complex 3D geometries. They enable the creation of a variety of innovative textures on molded automotive interior components - with no limits.

    EDM - Pushing the boundaries

    GF Machining Solutions' latest-generation EDM technologies and onboard machining strategies boost machining speed while maintaining surface integrity, leaving no visible recast layer.

    Complete mold manufacturing solution

    Our solutions for blow molds, neck rings, caps and closures
    Neck ring manufactured with Additive Manufacturing
    Milling, cutting, eroding, grinding preform mold components
    Caps mold core structured with Laser and Die-sinking EDM for perfect injection
    High-accuracy collapsible core manufactured with Wire-cutting EDM for seamless cap ejection
    Blow mold with 5-axis Milling and Laser for mastered surface finish and functionalities
    GF Machining Solutions' comprehensive offer to manufacture all the elements necessary for plastic-molded bottles
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