Kasper De Backer
Co-founder, Design Director
Kasper co-founded RAAK in 2016 and leads design: concept, form, materials and the handover to engineering. He trained as an industrial product designer and worked in London before starting RAAK in Leuven.
Engineering and DFM20 Nov 2026 · 4 min
How to prepare a product for injection moulding
The rules we apply to every moulded part before a tool is quoted, and the three mistakes we see most often in CAD that arrives from elsewhere.
Kasper De Backer
Engineering and DFM6 Nov 2026 · 4 min
From functional prototype to mass production: what still has to happen
A working prototype feels like the finish line. It is roughly the halfway point. Here are the twelve things between a prototype and a product you can ship, in the order they usually bite.
Kasper De Backer