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Mold Project Teaches Criticality of Design Phase Collab
Prestige Mold, Eastman Chemical Company, Mold-Masters (owned by Milacron LLC) and Pres-Tek Plastics joined forces on a project to solve customer challenges with producing small medical device parts made of Tritan™ copolyester with a multi-cavity hot runner mold. I spoke with Eastman's market development manager for medical devices to learn more about the Eastman-Prestige collaboration.
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Cardinal Mfg: Filling the Skills Gap One Student at a Time
The folks over at Cardinal Manufacturing, the student-run program at Eleva Strum High School, are featured in an upcoming episode of "Titan American Built" on Maverick TV (MAVTV). Check out a clip here.
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Engineer Your Way to a Better Mold
Amerimold Expo 2015 is the place to be if you're looking to learn about technologies and best practices that mold buyers and mold builders use to make critical decisions that improve processes, solve problems and meet quoted leadtimes. Check out our Engineer block of technical conference sessions.
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Listen and Learn
Back in the fall I told you about Northwoods Manufacturing, a student-run manufacturing business running out of Hurley High School in Hurley, Wisconsin. Well, things have advanced quite a bit and next month it is holding its second annual open house, and is participating in MMT's 2015 Educational Webinar Series.
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Lessons and Learning Curves in Plastics 3D Printing
A learn-as-you-go approach has helped this custom molder grow its 3D printing capabilities.
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Seeking Deserving Moldmakers and Mold Designers
Each year the Mold Making and Mold Design Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) searches for award recipients for its Mold Maker and Mold Designer of the Year Awards, which are presented during the Amerimold Expo taking place this June 17-18 in Rosemont, Illinois. May 15 is the nomination deadline.
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Amerimold 2015 Bringing You In-Depth Workshops
New this year, Amerimold Expo's technical conference program is offering two half-day workshops for a deeper dive into programming 3D parts and strategies for making mold maintenance profitable.
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MoldMaking Technology's Editorial Advisory Board members share their thoughts on NPE2015.
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"Your Career CAN Make a Difference" Video Hits Home at NPE
Our "MoldMaking Matters: Your Career Can Make a Difference" video project with Creative Technology, NyproMold, AMBA, SPI and SPE's Mold Making and Mold Design Division, makes its debut at NPE2015. Attendees and exhibitors grab DVDs and manuals to share with their local communities as a recruitment tool for attracting the next generation of workers.
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Common Sense Innovation and Moldmaker Collaboration
As I walked the aisles of NPE last month, taking in all the plastics-related technologies and solutions on display, two obvious trends emerged: logical innovation and moldmaker collaboration.
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"Think in Plastic, Not Steel" Presentation Challenges Moldmakers
This “townhall” presentation, based on MoldMaking Technology’s monthly Pellet-2-Part (P2P) article series, challenged attendees to consider modernizing their current approach to mold manufacturing by gaining a greater understanding of the plastic injection molding process.
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Recruiting & Reshoring, Resources &Recommendations
Although there is a lack of future skilled workers, there is no lack of ways to do our part to help build that future workforce, including a new recruitment tool, a refreshed resource and data on the recruiting/reshoring connection.
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