MMT Chats: Bottle Expertise Gives Way to Test Kit Work
MoldMaking Technology’s Christina Fuges chats with some of the M.C. Molds team—Vice President of Operations Dave Keesaer, Sales Manager Eric West and General Manager of Manufacturing Joe Palazzolo—about current business levels, employee safety and morale, and recent and upcoming COVID-19 tooling projects that capitalize on the shop’s extrusion blow mold specialty.
MMT Chats: Bottle Expertise Gives Way to Test Kit Work
From pre-purchased hand sanitizer, walkie-talkies on the production floor and split shifts to multi-use container/bottle molds, diagnostic reagent bottles and a pipeline of other virus-related tooling, M.C. Molds in Williamston, Michigan, is in the fight against COVID-19 as nationwide testing ramps up.
Listen to this quick 20-minute MMT Chat.
Although the M.C. Molds designs and produces molds for vacuum forming and thermoset urethane foam, and offers custom machining to other tool & die shops, M.C. Molds has stuck close to its roots. Today, it designs and manufactures molds in aluminum, beryllium-copper and stainless steel for extrusion and injection blow molding customers globally in the packaging, medical, automotive, agriculture, lawn and garden, toys/ornaments and laboratory-equipment markets, and also designs blow-molded bottles.
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