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Molder Creates Online Quoting Solution
ICOMold is a custom plastic injection molding company based in Holland, Ohio that manufactures plastic injection molds, plastic parts and CNC machined prototypes for a variety of industries, and that stands by its online quotation system for fast, interactive quotes.
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Insight on Top Trends in Plastics for 2016
MMT reader and contributor, The Rodon Group, offers five key trends that they believe will significantly impact the plastics industry and manufacturing overall.
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Projecting Equipment Investment
Many equipment sectors are poised for growth amid a moderate business investment environment, according to the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association. Here are 10 equipment acquisition trends for the coming year.
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Webinar: Maximizing Tax Savings for Mold Builders
In December Congress made the R&D tax credit permanent, and it was improved with the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 by allowing eligible small businesses to offset the Alternative Minimum Tax and select start-up companies to offset the employer’s payroll tax liabilities.
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Reshoring Remains Strong in 2015
About 200,000 manufacturing jobs have been brought to the U.S. from offshore in the last six years, according to Reshoring Initiative calculations. That gain is the result of both new reshoring and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in our manufacturing sector. However, there has been some negative news about reshoring recently that Harry Moser founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative wants to address.
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By nature moldmakers are producers, problem-solvers and inventors. So maybe it’s time to actually make that unique product solution you have rolling around in your head, and Kickstarter can help.
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More Companies to Benefit from the R&D Tax Credit!
After learning that the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 was signed into law late last month, I got a call from past MMT "tax" contributor Scott Schmidt of the Black Line Group. The vote on the Act prompted him to reach out to me to discuss the changes, so I wanted to quickly share them with MMT readers.
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Fields of Expertise
Our goal this year is to help readers improve their expertise in the business of moldmaking with help from a few other experts.
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What Are You Reading?
As 2015 comes to a close, I thought I'd share what you have been reading most on the MoldMaking Technology website. It provides a little insight into the type of information and specifics topics you want to learn more about. Here are the Top 10 most viewed articles on MMT online during the past 12 months.
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Top 10 Blog Posts of the Year
What better way to end the year on this blog than to rank the top blog posts of 2015, so you can see what topics hit home the hardest.
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What's the Big Deal about Hand Scraping?
It's said that hand scraping maintains high levels of CNC machining accuracy and reduces wear and tear, which yields long, stable and productive machine tool life. Here's some data to consider to help prove it.
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