Christina Fuges

Christina Fuges Editorial Director

Predictive Manufacturing Moves Mold Builder into Advanced Medical Component Manufacturing

From a hot rod hobby, medical molds and shop performance to technology extremes, key relationships and a growth strategy, it’s obvious details matter at Eden Tool.

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Leadtime Leader

Leadtime Leader Award: Enter While You Can!

Now is the time to recognize your shop. It’s not just about being the shop with the shortest delivery times. It’s about what you do with what you have. Enter today!

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Sales

MMT Chats: The Merging, Marketing and Manpower of a Moldmaking/Molding Company

For this MMT Chat, my guest is Andy Peterson CEO of Pyramid Molding Group (Industrial Molds and Pyramid Plastics) in Rockford, Illinois, who shares his take on the strengths of bringing a mold shop and molding facility together under one group.

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Shared Engineering Expertise Overcomes Design and Delivery Challenges

Collaboration on part and mold design between a molder and mold builder were vital to overcoming design and production challenges for a unique automotive project.

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Leadtime Leader

Leadtime Leader: Q&A with 2020 Winner Precise Tooling

Hear from 2020 Leadtime Leader Award winner Precise Tooling on the benefits of the Leadtime Leader Award. Now is the time to recognize your shop. It’s not just about being the shop with the shortest delivery times. It’s about what you do with what you have. Enter today!

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Leadership

MMT Chats: Removing Roadblocks for the Team and Customer

James Jergens, Operations Manager for Ernie Green Industries chats with me about supply chain management changes, tooling, purchasing advice, and leadership’s impact on efficiency.

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30 under 30

In Case You Missed It and A Look Ahead

Here are what topics were popular in MoldMaking Technology this past year and what the brand has in store for mold builders in 2021—traditional engineer, build and maintain topics but with a look into some nontraditional MMT applications, Amerimold 2021, NPE, Leadtime Leader Awards 30 Under 30 Honors Program, MMT Chats video interviews and more.

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Leadership

Diversification and Departmentalization Drive Growth for Wisconsin Mold Builder

New ownership at Innovation Mold & Design (IMD) grows the company by investment in technology that serves a departmentalization and diversification, business model.

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Leadership

Westminster Tool Invests 10% of Revenue into New Machining Equipment

Westminster Tool’s investment in its hard machining department addresses growing production demands and opens doors for internal training opportunities.

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MMT Chats: Acquisition Trends and Lessons for Mold Builders

Jim Berklas is a former full-time M&A lawyer for several of the largest private equity firms in the country and has 25 years of M&A experience and 200 closed transaction. Today, he is founder and M&A Leader with Augmented Industry Services. He joins me for this MMT Chat on mergers and acquisitions trends and strategies within in the mold manufacturing industry. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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2020-2030 Editorial Advisory Board: Meet New Board Member Brian Dippel

The 2020-2023 version of MoldMaking Technology's EAB features a new crew of 12 industry professionals. Here's one of them.

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Future Leadtime Leader Award Winners: Your Time Is Now

Enter for MoldMaking Technology’s Leadtime Leader Award and share how your shop went above and beyond this past year.

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