Michigan Shop Provides Solutions for Moldmaking and Beyond

Best Tool & Engineering is a plastics processor that supports its customers with multiple services, including product development and design improvement for manufacturability, moldmaking, injection molding, plastic vibration welding, plastic hot plate welding and assembly for the medical, electronics and consumer durable goods markets.

Mold building includes prototype and production (low volume to high volume). Primary metals include aluminum and tool steel. Best Tool’s aluminum molds are guaranteed for 250,000 cycles with non-filled materials. In-house wire EDM for tight tolerance and precision mold building are additional capabilities.

Best Tool notes a couple competitive advantages. First, the company provides engineering firms, product developers and inventors full-service consultation, design development, prototyping and production. Second, the company claims to be Michigan’s only true expert in the art and science of plastic welding (hot plate and vibration), enabling its customers to solve numerous problems and lower manufacturing costs. Best Tool’s key difference is that its team performs all processes in-house — design, tooling, production and assembly, with weld assembly done in-house on low-volume projects.

Best Tool & Engineering give back to the manufacturing community in many ways, including hosting local high school students for Manufacturing Day 2022. Its owner and president, Joe Cherluck, has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal regarding GDP, shared and been a part of an assortment of moldmaking-related talks with MMT and other similar engagements.