Christina Fuges

Christina Fuges Editorial Director

Dry Ice Provides Optimum Range of Possibilities in Parts Cleaning Process

Cold Jet LLC showcases how they use dry ice (solid CO2) in their parts cleaning process.

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Leadership

MMT Chats: Fighting COVID-19 with Collaboration

Next Chapter Manufacturing, Muskegon Community College, PCS Company and Concept Molds chat about a coalition they formed to produce face shields to help fight COVID-19.

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A Virtual Handshake Takes on COVID-19

After being deemed an essential business, this worldwide Tier 1.5 supplier to the automotive industry used its best judgment, put the right protocols in place to keep employees safe within its 50,000-square-feet facility, and got to work on making face shield molds—all as a result of a virtual handshake.

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Leadership

PODCAST: Tackling Problems with Relationships and Processes

Currier Plastics’ Ron Ringleben, vice president of business development, and Sriraj Patel​​​, director of research and development, discuss how their company builds relationships and tackles problems for their customers in this episode of The Manufacturing Alliance podcast.

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Just a Few Words on Why and How We Work Through COVID-19

This mold component supplier shares its reasons for continuing to work and steps for ensuring your business remains open and operating at normal levels.

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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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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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Analysis

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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Leadership

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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