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Custom plastic enclosures, built without a mold.
Toolless CNC-cuts and thermally bends pre-colored plastic sheet into production-grade housings. Get a prototype in days, then run 1 to 10,000 units with an injection-molded finish and none of the tooling cost.
Recent work · zero tooling
- Years without molds
- 25+
- Building no-tool enclosures since 1998.
- Certified quality system
- ISO 9001
- Registered to ISO 9001:2015. Every order is inspected before it ships.
- Units per order
- 1–10,000
- No minimum order and no tooling to pay off.
- Sq ft in Everett, WA
- 13,000
- Seven CNC mills, thermal benders and UV printers under one roof.
01 · Have a model?
Send us CAD drawings
Upload STEP, IGES or SolidWorks files. We quote from your geometry and flag anything the sheet process needs changed.
02 · Have a board? We design it for youGive us the PCB, connectors and environment. Our engineers deliver a 3D model and a prototype, with no minimum order.
03 · Want it now? You design in minutesSize a C Box or U Box in the Product Designer, download the CAD, and send it back for a quote.
What we make
Four ways to house your electronics.
Every family uses the same process: pre-colored ABS, polycarbonate or acrylic sheet, CNC routed, V-grooved, bent and solvent-bonded in our Everett facility.
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Full custom
Custom Plastic Enclosures
Complex shapes, curves, two-tone panels, EMI shielding and digital printing, designed around your components by our in-house engineers.
Explore custom enclosures02
Standard, sized to your board
C Box & U Box Enclosures
Two-piece and four-piece snap-together housings with your cutouts, bosses and windows. The fastest route to a finished case.
See standard enclosures03
Single-board computers
Custom Raspberry Pi Cases
Cases for Pi 3, 4, 5 and Zero with exact port cutouts, light pipes, acrylic screens and your logo printed on top.
See Raspberry Pi cases04
Machined & bent parts
Custom Plastic Parts
Bezels, shrouds, brackets, covers, panels and bins. The same CNC precision and finish, no enclosure required.
Browse plastic partsThe Toolless process
From sheet to shipped in four steps.
One ten-station workflow runs a single prototype or a 10,000-unit blanket order. A design change is a program edit, never a new mold.
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Share the project
A CAD file, a sketch, or just the board and its connectors through the quote form. Most customers start with a rough idea and a PCB.
STEP, IGES, SolidWorks, STL or DXF accepted
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Engineering and 3D model
Your assigned engineer builds the SolidWorks model and sends STEP, IGES or STL files for approval before anything is cut.
One engineer runs your job start to finish
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Prototype in days
CNC routing, V-groove scoring, thermal bending, heat-staked inserts, digital printing and solvent bonding, all in our Everett facility.
First prototype in 3 to 21 working days
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Production, then repeat
Approve the prototype, then order 1 to 10,000 units. Revise between runs at program cost through our blanket order program.
Volume runs ship three weeks after your PO
Toolless vs. injection molding
Molded looks. None of the mold.
A mold costs tens of thousands of dollars and months of waiting before the first part arrives. Our customers get the first part in days and change it whenever the design moves.
- No tooling to amortize, so short runs price like long ones
- Iterate freely: many customers run 500, revise, and run 500 more before committing to more units
- Textured, pre-colored sheet and digital printing give a finished, cosmetic look
- Made in the USA and shipped worldwide, from Canada to Australia
ConsiderationToollessInjection molding
Tooling costNoneTens of thousands
First prototype3–21 working daysMonths
Design changeProgram editRe-cut the mold
Minimum orderOne unitThousands
Ideal quantity1 to 10,00010,000+
FinishTextured sheet, printed, two-toneMolded texture
Who we serve
Enclosures for the devices that can’t wait for a mold.
More than two decades in medical and laboratory equipment, plus instruments, kiosks, displays and single-board computer products. See who we serve.
What our customers say
Testimonials
“We initially considered injection molding, but with our volume the cost of tooling would never be recovered. It took only a week to settle on a design and get a prototype, and we were in production a week later.”
“Even though we are located in Australia, all deliveries have been fast and hassle free. Toolless may be physically located on the other side of the world, but their performance makes them very much local to us.”
“They can accommodate 50 to 100 production units or even larger. It took them 10 working days after approval to accomplish the prototype, and they absorbed the modifications at no extra cost.”
“The QC inspector tested and inspected the enclosure very closely and found no faults. I was also impressed with the thicker side wall. Great job.”
About Toolless
A 13,000 sq ft shop north of Seattle that has never bought a mold.
The Toolless process was born in France in 1985, when an engineer borrowed sheet-metal and cabinet-making techniques to build low-volume plastic housings. Since 1998 we have run it in Everett, Washington: seven CNC mills, saws, thermal benders, two digital printers and a quality lab, all under one ISO 9001:2015 certified roof.
Engineers, healthcare teams and founders across the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe rely on us to house pumps, circuit boards, displays and instruments.
Solutions by application
Tell us what the enclosure protects. We have built it before.
Each application below has its own design considerations, materials and examples. See every solution.
PCB enclosures
Boards on bosses or in grooves, connectors through CNC-cut ports.
Learn moreKiosk enclosures
Floor-standing and countertop shells for payment, ticketing and check-in.
Learn moreInstrument enclosures
Benchtop and handheld housings with printed panels and windows.
Learn moreLaboratory equipment
Cleanable, cosmetic housings for analyzers and diagnostic devices.
Learn moreTest equipment
Rugged, light plastic housings for bench and field test gear.
Learn moreBattery enclosures
Flame-retardant sheet housings for packs and power systems.
Learn moreSingle-board computers
Raspberry Pi, Arduino, BeagleBone and Orange Pi products.
Learn moreElectrical enclosures
Wall-mount control housings with keyholes, flanges and windows.
Learn moreFrom the blog
Enclosure design, explained by the people who cut them.
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Send the board. We’ll send the box.
Quotes come from an engineer, not a form robot. Attach CAD, photos or a sketch and we reply within one business day.