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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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3D Models in Components Library Eliminates Busy Work for Tool Designers
SelfLube announces 3D models for its entire product line of precision mold and die components are fully incorporated into the VISI CAD components library.
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Drive Technology Eliminates Fear of Contamination
J&H Distributor showcases the e-ahp drive, a force and position controlled linear axis capable of generating high forces.
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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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Heating Platens Reduce Mold Surface Temperature Variation
Venango’s MultiZone heating platens with a control system reduces mold surface temperature variation by almost 400%
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Community Addresses Coronavirus PPE Backlog with 3D Printing
As the COVID-19 crisis has deepened, Rocklin Manufacturing has been addressing the need to fulfill the growing PPE backlog by not only turning to 3D printing, but by also connecting with its local community.
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CAM/Cutting Tool Combo Improves Mold Finishes
Combining CAM software, specialty carbide end mills, and reseller support optimizes existing mills for machining molds at an electrical components manufacturer.
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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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Round Pallet Enables Machining with Easier Access Around Workpieces
FCS North America Inc.’s M6 round pallet is designed to address mold and die makers’ need to machine small components.
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Canadian Manufacturing Turning A Corner Against Coronavirus Crisis
Manufacturing in Canada continues to be hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis; however, stats from Canadian Association of Mold Makers’ and Automate Canada’s weekly survey of the coronavirus impactindicate a corner may have been turned.
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