MMT Blog
Color Matching for Mold Weld Repair
Experience and careful attention to detail are the key requirements to a predictable and consistent color match.
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Apply Your Moldmaking Know-How to Aerospace Work
If you are looking to diversify the jobs you machine and venture into the aerospace market many of the toolpaths and cutting techniques can be used with some modifications.
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Five Ways to Bridge the Skills Gap
As the U.S. moldmaking industry continues toward economic recovery, finding the right worker for the job is a huge concern. In the past, entry-level machinists could be hired with little experience; yet today’s computerized machines and higher levels of automation demand a deeper skill set, even for beginners.
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Five Important Tax Changes Beneficial to Your Shop
On December 17, 2010 President Obama signed The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (2010 Tax Relief Act) that includes important depreciation and IRC Sec. 179 deduction changes, which were retroactive to September 9, 2010 and will benefit both large and small manufacturers.
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Diverse Mold Offerings Sustain Moldmaker, Secures Future Business
Pelco Tool & Mold, Inc. (Glendale Heights, IL)—a producer of close-tolerance, high-quality tools for the closure, food and beverage, personal care, and medical industries—designs and builds a plethora of molds, including, single face and stack, rotating ratchet ring (RRR), conventional unscrewing, strip, side-action, collapsible core, compression, front-loaded core, insert and prototype.
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Get Out and Stay Out
Here’s a classic water-cooler joke for you: BOSS: Get any orders on your customer visit today? SALES REP: Sure, I got two orders! “Get out” and “stay out.”
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How Moldmakers Can Reduce Production Costs and Maintain Precision
Using a mold base quick-change/hot runner combination in your mold designs can result in flexible, interchangeable precision.
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Understanding Customer Expectations
An informal survey reveals what OEMS are looking for in their tooling vendors.
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Simple Strategies for Providing Value-Add to Your Customers
Five technology solutions to consider that have advantages for both the mold manufacturer and its customers.
Read MoreStäubli Quick Mold Changing Systems: Innovations in Plastics Processing
Based on its extensive knowledge in changing and connecting molds, Stäubli has developed a complete line of products designed to improve changeover times in plastics processing.
Read MorePowerful Slide NEXGEN Metal and Mold Cleaner Contains No Trichloroethylene and No Methylene Chloride
NEXGEN metal and mold cleaner is a direct alternative to Trichloroethylene and Methylene Chloride, and is one of the most powerful, most effective natural cleaning solvents you can use on molds and metals, as well as a variety of other challenging cleaning applications.
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