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Supply Chain

Navigating Economic Resilience and Consumer Trends

Consumer behavior provides mold builders insight into the evolving market dynamics of goods and services that helps strategic planning.

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consumer

Hammonton Mold, ADOP France Forge Strategic Partnership in Injection Blow Moldmaking

Hammonton Mold Inc., a leading full-service mold shop based in New Jersey specializing in injection blow molds (IBM), proudly announces its official partnership with ADOP France, a prominent IBM mold manufacturer based in Normandy, France.

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3D Printing

How Hybrid Tooling Accelerates Product Development, Sustainability for PepsiCo

The consumer products giant used to wait weeks and spend thousands on each iteration of a prototype blow mold. Now, new blow molds are available in days and cost just a few hundred dollars.

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Supply Chain

MMT Chats: Applying Bench Lessons to the Business of Moldmaking

For this MMT Chat, my guest is Mark Gauvain, one of MMT’s newer Editorial Advisory Board members who has plenty to share as he recently made the move from working for some big manufacturers to working for himself as a consultant to moldmakers and molders on procurement and technology investment strategies.

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Industry 40

Information Is King—in the Shop and with the Customer—at A1 Tool

This mold builder uses information to improve its operation, molds, and customer service from data collection to data sharing.

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Automation

Going Beyond Moldmaking and Molding

With roots that are in moldmaking, Metro Mold & Design (MMD) is a contract manufacturing partner who focuses on helping its customers design and execute programs that support key business goals.

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consumer

Bond Building and Blitz Programs

It’s relationship and experience and not shop size that allows the Enterprise Mold team to tackle some nontraditional mold projects—at least they are nontraditional for the shop’s Windsor location.

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consumer

Big Kaiser Launches Online Customer Chat

Customers can now have direct access to Big Kaiser agents during normal business hours for application support, tool presetting, pricing and availability and more.

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consumer

Workflow and Quality Count

A recent visit to a hot runner systems and solutions provider proved the importance of workflow and quality to a production facility’s layout.

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consumer

Industry Outlooks Diverge within Consumer Products

As 2020 earnings expectations diverge within within the consumer products sector, industry outlooks are likewise diverging.

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