30 Under 30 Class of 2021: Next-Generation Leadership

The mold manufacturing industry has hard shoes to fill, but the next-generation under the age of 30 is eager to try with grace and grit. From teacher assistants, apprentices and journeyman mold builders, to engineers, project managers and company owners, and everything in between, the crop of young professional talent from around the globe is breaking the mold, as they say. And these masters of moldmaking and mold design are equally eager to share their tribal knowledge and pass on that passion, which keeps this community advancing into the future.

Today’s blog features those Canada-based young professionals who are contributing to the advancement of the mold manufacturing community in a variety of ways. Read their stories below.

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Canada

Digital Moulds GmbH (Sierning Austria)

Andreas Reinthaler, CEO

Andreas is a former apprentice of Austrian moldmaker Haidlmair (Nußbach, Austria) and worked a few years in the assembly and CAD departments. After he finished his industrial engineering studies, he became the Mold Monitoring system project manager, a monitoring system for injection molds. This innovation served as the basis for a spin-off company, Digital Moulds, for which Andreas became the first CEO.

In the following months, he played a vital role in the evolution of the products and was a key player involved with developing the Mold Monitoring system into a product ready for the market. Andreas is a technology expert in his field and a wonderful man to have on the team. We believe this new company would not have made such good progress throughout the last year without him.

PepCorp (Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

Parker Drouillard, Owner

Parker started with four 3D printers in his parent’s garage at 17 years old. He took computer science at the University of Windsor while building a small customer base to provide plastic-printed parts and worked as an injection tool designer at Aalbers Tool & Mold (Ontario, Canada) to gain more knowledge.

The decision was made to leave the tool shop to focus more on his business. Now located at his current building with more than 30 printers, he focuses on new customers with high-volume production requirements. His next goal is to triple the number of 3D printers while designing and building his own 3D printers.