Case Study
What’s Your ‘Secret Ingredient?’
Given all the mold manufacturing companies I’ve visited or learned about, one detail continues to ring true with all of them: That “secret ingredient” to building a top-quality mold.
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Injection Mold Inc.
This shop specializes in rapid prototype molds and “quick-delivery” production molds.
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Faster Cornering in Cavity Hogging Boosts Capacity
With a cutter capable of plowing through the corners at full speed, a Michigan moldmaker says it has doubled rough-milling throughput, freeing up machine time for mechanical polishing instead of tedious handwork.
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2017 Editorial Advisory Board: Will Cipkar
The 2017 version of MoldMaking Technology's EAB features a new crew of 10 industry professionals. Here's one of them.
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MTD Micro Molding
This shop specializes in building molds for tiny parts with such complexities as 0.1-mm walls, 0.025-mm corner radii and holes as small as 0.051 mm in diameter.
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Native Roots Feed Community and Industry
I intended to find some “nugget” of detail that would support an announcement we received about Accu-Mold LLC president Dave Felicijan's appointment to the Groves Advisory Board of the Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. What I learned was far more than I expected.
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New Name, New Capabilities Fit Precisely
Precise Mold and Plate kicked off 2017 by renaming itself Precise Tooling Solutions and expanded its capabilities to boot.
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Concours Technologies (Formerly Concours Mold Inc.)
This conversation with the Canadian shop offers a snapshot of its operations.
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Larger VMCs Allow Small Shop to Go Bigger
Two Kitamura machines immediately gave this Michigan shop the ability to win jobs that were previously too large to even bid on.
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Counting One’s Blessings at Christmas and Always
Because it’s Christmastime, we celebrate the season with lights, parties and gift giving. But in addition to those festivities, some are also focused on, as they say, “the reason for the season”—The birth of Baby Jesus.
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