Star Rapid is a global

rapid prototyping Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data. Construction of the part or assembly is usually done using 3D printin ...

rapid tooling Rapid tooling (RT) denotes manufacturing on a slim timeline. Some of the main advantages to rapid tooling trades is that it decreases the time and cost of the product. With rapid tools being fast and easily reproducible, it requires less stock for ...

and low-volume manufacturing company located in

Zhongshan Zhongshan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is now part of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen conurbation with 65,565,622 i ...

Guangdong Province Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

, China. The company was founded in 2005 by

Gordon George Styles Gordon George Styles (born 1964) is a British engineer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and president of Star Rapid, an international provider of rapid prototyping and low-volume manufacturing services. Early life and education Styles ...

, a British engineer and U.K. rapid prototyping veteran who now serves as president and CEO. Star Rapid offers a range of advanced manufacturing services including plastic injection molding,

CNC machining Numerical control (also computer numerical control, and commonly called CNC) is the automated control of machining tools (such as drills, lathes, mills, grinders, routers and 3D printers) by means of a computer. A CNC machine processes a piec ...

, metal

3D printing 3D printing or additive manufacturing is the Manufacturing, construction of a three-dimensional object from a computer-aided design, CAD model or a digital 3D modeling, 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is ...

, pressure die casting, vacuum casting and a range of finishing services targeting the consumer, automotive, medical and aerospace industries. The company has a 60,000 ft² facility and more than 250 global employees. Throughout the company’s history, it has been involved in multiple high-profile projects, from providing parts to restore the historic Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse on

Lake Ontario Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border sp ...

to components for the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition’s Mina v2 exoskeleton, which competed in the first ever

Cybathlon Moving People and Technology Cybathlon, a project of ETH Zurich, acts as a platform that challenges teams from all over the world to develop assistive technologies suitable for everyday use with and for people with disabilities. The driving force be ...

. Star Rapid has sales offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. The company has created parts for more than 400 American companies and was named a "Best Online 3D Printing Service" by ALL3DP.

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3D printing Companies based in Zhongshan Companies established in 2005