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.
WatchMMT 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.
WatchA 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.
Read MorePODCAST: 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.
ListenJust 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.
Read MoreBeing 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.
Read MoreMMT 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.
WatchPODCAST: 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.
ListenCOVID-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.
Read MoreRush-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.
Read MoreMold 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.
Read MoreCOVID-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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