Your Annual Personal Purchasing Assistant

During this past year of challenge and change, mold manufacturers kept pace with customer demands and business opportunities by investing in new products and equipment and outsourcing critical steps in the mold build process to expert service providers. Whether through expansion plans, acquisition or diversification, many mold builders maintained growth in both business and employment levels and kept their eyes on what’s new and what works in mold manufacturing, a vital task as the industry returns to some semblance of normality.

We believe that MoldMaking Technology plays an essential role in keeping this community informed and engaged via our print, digital and social content, including our annual Technology Review and Sourcing Guide.

So, if your shop is in the market to upgrade equipment or streamline operations, check out the pages of this printed issue, along with our expansive online database, which offers mold builders almost 1,000 manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of more than 200 product and service categories that the mold manufacturing supply chain uses daily.

This issue serves as your annual purchasing assistant when deciding on your next technology investment, upgrade, alternative process or new strategy, or window shopping.

For easy searching, the guide is divided into 11 sections representing the key product, equipment and process categories that are essential to designing, building, maintaining and repair molds:

Services
Software
Additive Manufacturing
Mold Materials
Hot Runners
Mold Components
Cutting Tools
Machining
EDM
Inspection/Measurement
Maintenance, Repair and Surface Treatment

Each section opens with a few company profiles that highlight the offerings of key suppliers, followed by a sourcing grid that matches suppliers with their respective product/service offerings (advertisers are noted in boldface type). Next are relevant (and highly-viewed) technical product and service reviews, tips and features published over the past 12 months.

The grids represent only a portion of MoldMaking Technology’s entire online database, so be sure to check out complete data online at moldmakingtechnology.com/suppliers. To maintain accurate company and listing data, we survey and update our supplier database every spring with the latest company contact information and product/service offerings.

This issue serves as your annual purchasing assistant when deciding on your next technology investment, upgrade, alternative process or new strategy, or window shopping.

We hope this annual guide eases your search for your next technology or service investment.