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Tech Roundup: Making Sure Your Moldmaking Needs Are Met

This month’s roundup features products, processes and services involved with additive manufacturing, maintenance and repair, mold components and more. To learn more about the products, read on.

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Machining

Mold Builder Meets Increased Domestic Demand With Automated Cells

Burteck LLC experienced significant demand increases due to reshoring and invested in automated machining cells to step up its production output quickly and avoid losing business.

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MoldMaking Conference Session Spotlight: HOT TOPICS

Want to learn how to successfully reshore tooling or how to play a part in sustainability or how to take advantage of the changes to the R&D Tax Credit?

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Software Technology to Meet Moldmaking Challenges

Featured in this technology roundup are software solutions that can provide and improve design and manufacturing operations or data management practices during the manufacture of a mold.   

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ICYMI

MMT Chats: CAMM Paves the Global Pathway with Passion

CAMM Chair Kim Thiara explains how this association is unique to other industry groups, its biggest impact on moldmaking, her favorite memory and details about an upcoming educational event in Toronto. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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Education

The Ins and Outs of Hot Runner Temperature Control

A training checklist that explains the why and how of proper hot runner temperature control and system management.

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Hot Runners

VIDEO: Hot Runner Solutions Driven by Performance and Partnership

INCOE’s New Business Development Manager Jim Bott and Business Development Manager David Shirley break down valve gating technology, balanced hot runner systems and the secret to partnering with customers to develop the right melt management technology. 

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Ecomonics

May Moldmaking Index Trends Downward

Contraction, experienced by most May components, continues to be familiar territory for the GBI: Moldmaking Index.

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30 under 30

MMT Chats: Update from Star of “Track the Apprentice”

CDM Tool & Manufacturing Apprentice Machinist Taylor Bartelt shares where she has been and what she has learned over the past year. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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Hot Runners

Hot Runner Manufacturer Maintains Commitment to Production Planning and Quality Control

Two years later, the HRSflow facility in Byron Center, Michigan, still demonstrates workflow and quality on its hot runner manufacturing floor.

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MoldMaking Conference Session Spotlight: Presenters Return to Give Progress Report

Want to learn about a strategy to create a highly effective and scalable moldmaking business or the impact of mold digitalization? 

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Workholding

Solving Mold Alignment Problems with the Right Alignment Lock

Correct alignment lock selection can reduce maintenance costs and molding downtime, as well as increase part quality over the mold’s entire life.

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