SuppServe, a boutique package design firm located in northern California, specializes in single-serve dispensing systems. The company is dedicated to simplifying the delivery methods of a variety of common products that are sold in bulk and require single-serve dosing.

The SuppShot™ is a first-of-its-kind rigid single serve dispensing device for large volumes of powders and liquids capable of adapting to almost any bottle/drinking device on the market. Designed to provide a unique, convenient, and clean product, it features a spill free design, and is price competitive with basic pouches and pillow-packs, and is 100% recyclable.

Its design was quite specialized and included thin sections of plastic. While standard SLA prototypes could provide a good amount of feedback regarding the design, SuppServe engineers would eventually require injection molded parts to test and approve a design that could be mass manufactured.

The engineers ordered quick-turn aluminum injection mold tooling from Quickparts, along with an initial run of SLA prototypes of the design. The molded samples off of the tooling sparked a series of separate design revisions, each improving upon the last. The flexible tooling options at Quickparts allowed for several revisions to the existing injection mold tooling, each supported by additional runs of SLA prototypes.

“We went through numerous iterations of tooling that provided invaluable insight into our part design,“ said Chris Straface, founder and CEO of SuppServe. “The initial concept kept evolving, and we were able to make a number of changes to the tooling to make it work exactly like we wanted it to.” The design of the SuppShot is now confirmed and will be available in production quantities beginning January of 2012 through select retailers.

SuppServe was ultimately able to use both the rapid prototyping and injection molding capabilities offered at Quickparts in tandem to ensure success.

Quickparts
www.quickparts.com

SuppServe
www.suppshot.com