Christina Fuges

Christina Fuges Editorial Director

Mold Components

Being Connected to Community and Customers during COVID-19

Mold manufacturers and technology suppliers across North America have day jobs and night jobs when it comes to doing more to help both their customers and local communities during the coronavirus pandemic. Here is one mold component supplier’s story.

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Combining Injection Molding with 3D Printing Creates Freedom from Conventional Moldmaking Techniques

Rich Oles of Alba Enterprises and Carsten Jarfelt of Addifab discuss how free form injection molding provides freedom from conventional moldmaking methods.

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Leadership

MMT Chats: COVID, Communication and Customers with CDM Tool & Mfg

CDM Tool & Manufacturing expedited and maximized resources with supplier support to be part of a solution in the fight against the coronavirus.

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Leadership

PODCAST: Always In Pursuit of Teamwork

This speed junkie is determined to use teamwork to make better decisions, and it’s working. Tony May is the vice president of business development for engineering-driven mold builder Pyramid Mold & Tool located in Rancho Cucamonga, California which focuses on complex, multicavity tools.

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Mold Components

COVID-19 Gives Mold Component Supplier Its Most Consequential Order Ever

The pandemic has presented challenges to every link in the mold manufacturing supply chain and those companies in a position to help have put their teams and processes to the test, including mold component suppliers.

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Analysis

Rush-Produced Core Pin Tooling Proves Critical for COVID-19 Test Kit Production

I can't help but share another news release that came across my desk, as it again showcases the essential role of mold component suppliers in the development of tooling to make products and equipment to fight the coronavirus in record times.

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Mold Builder Just Figures It Out: From Face Shield Mold Design to Sales on a Site in 6 Days!

Within three days, Bryne Tool + Design of Rockford, Michigan, sold 4,000 face shields at $2.95 each (and available in 10 packs) from a mold that ownership donated.

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Regulations

COVID-19 Is a Rallying Call to the Plastics Industry to Redesign, Refocus and Reshore

Mold manufacturers who have been critiqued for slow lead times, as compared to the overseas competition, are proving to themselves and customers during COVID-19 that North American mold manufacturers and suppliers can unite and do things at an extraordinary speed.

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MMT Chats: The Cavalier Tool Army Takes on COVID-19

MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges chats with Brian Bendig, Tim Galbraith and Brenda Quint of Cavalier Tool & Manufacturing about what it took to take on a hand sanitizer dispenser mold project to help fight COVID-19, as well as the impact of the virus on its business and people.

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Hot Runners

Component Supplier Ramps Up Support during Crisis

Expediting all work and supplies for Coronavirus projects is key to this mold component supplier They have first priority. “Many of our customers are in the medical field and they need support from us.

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The Plastek Group Now Molding to Donate Face Shields to Protect Against COVID-19

When this news release about The Plastek Group came across my desk detailing how the team stepped up to mold and donate face shields, I was not surprised. I’ve known this company and the generosity of its founder and family since launching MoldMaking Technology in 1998.

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MMT Chats: MoldMaking Technology and Harbour Results Connect on COVID-19 and the Importance of Leadership, Focus

MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges chats with Laurie Harbour of Harbour Results about the current state of moldmaking amid COVID-19 and what mold builders should be doing today in their businesses to ensure growth in the aftermath.

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