covid-19
Markforged Report Suggests 3D Printing Enabled Manufacturers to Persevere Through COVID-19
Data shows that manufacturers using 3D printing were able to continue normal operations and innovate, while saving time and money.
Read MoreArburg Filter Production Rounds Off Facemask Project
In collaboration with several companies, Arburg applied its injection molding know-how to develop a multifunctional face mask made from LSR and PP in 41 days.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Making the Argument for a Mentoring Program
What employers need to think about as they reopen post-pandemic to improve employee engagement.
Read MoreTax Relief to Help Manage the Impact of COVID-19
U.S. Congress and Treasury have provided relief to mold shops since the beginning of the coronavirus via accelerated deductions, new tax credits, guidance around these benefits and extensions on the time to file and pay taxes.
Read MoreHow to Learn Mold Design Virtually
Plastics Engineering program instructors share their strategies for successful virtual learning for hands-on injection mold design.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Virtual R&D and Teaching Plastic Injection Mold Design
New Editorial Advisory Board member Davide Masato, an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, joined me for a 20-minute video chat about the importance of plastics engineering, and how COVID-19 changed the faculty's approach to teaching mold engineering and plastics research.
Read MoreMold Builder Tools Up to Produce 10,000+ Ear Protectors
Since learning how Westminster Tool was embracing change, leading and communicating during COVID-19 a few months ago, I found out that they tooled up to support their local community with ear protectors too.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Quickly Managing Design Changes Amidst COVID-19
MoldMaking Technology’s Christina Fuges chats with Xcentric Mold & Engineering to learn about the team’s role in a domestic supply chain initiative to meet the demand for personal protective equipment.
Read MoreMMT Chats: New Quick Response Shield Design Was a Labor of Purpose for This Wisconsin Mold Builder
Stellar Mold teamed up with another local Wisconsin company (Spartek Inc.) to be a part of the fight against COVID-19 and both worked to design and manufacture a new quick response face shield.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Bottle Expertise Gives Way to Test Kit Work
MoldMaking Technology’s Christina Fuges chats with some of the M.C. Molds team—Vice President of Operations Dave Keesaer, Sales Manager Eric West and General Manager of Manufacturing Joe Palazzolo—about current business levels, employee safety and morale, and recent and upcoming COVID-19 tooling projects that capitalize on the shop’s extrusion blow mold specialty.
Read MoreMold Builder Creates Mobile Social Distancing Solution
MoldMaking Technology's 2020 Leadtime Leader Winner Precise Tooling Solutions introduces ViralBarrier—an effective and affordable mobile barrier that prevents transmission of coronavirus.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Small Diversified Shop Is Part of a One-Million-Part COVID-19 Project
The 10-person team at Trifecta Tool & Engineering in Kettering, Ohio, had all hands on deck to build a mold for face shield headbands in 8 days (typical build would be 4 weeks).
Read MoreMMT Chats: Being Dynamic Amid Crisis
Westminster Tool in Plainfield, Connecticut, stresses the importance of understanding and embracing change, and leadership and communication during a crisis.
Read More5 Steps Manufacturers Should Take to Optimize Operations in the COVID-19 Era
Here are five steps all manufacturers can take to prepare for operations in the COVID-19 era and beyond.
Read MoreAdapting to New Ways of Working During COVID-19
Mold material suppliers are in the fight against COVID-19 just like their mold-building customers, and learning similar lessons too such as the benefits of going paperless and working remotely.
Read MoreTax Reform for Mold Builders: 30 Months After Enactment
A review of the impact the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has had on mold builders over the past two years.
Read MoreCanadian Manufacturing Resiliency Helps Overcome COVID-19 Challenges
Three-quarters of companies have recalled employees or hired new staff in what is considered proof of the resiliency of the manufacturing sector, reports a monthly survey of moldmakers and industrial automation companies from the Canadian Association of Mold Makers and Automate Canada.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Vials for the Vaccine/Antibody Testing
COVID has made work a little more challenging but it is also teaching teams “to do things a little bit differently” so they can turn jobs around a lot faster. MMT Editorial Director Christina Fuges chatted with one Illinois mold builder and molder who did not take on PPE, but instead, focused on tooling for vials used to collect DNA for vaccine/antibody development.
Read MoreHarbour Results Announces Results From Second COVID-19 Study
Harbour Results, Inc., (HRI) conducted its second of three studies to better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting small- to medium-sized manufacturers, both production and tooling.
Read MoreStackTeck Responds to High-Volume Medical Injection Molding Demands
StackTeck Systems Ltd. has been responding to market demands for high volume injection molds for medical applications.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Liberty Molds Talks Respirators, Reshoring and Recommendations
MoldMaking Technology's Christina Fuges chats with some of the Liberty Molds team about a Ford Motor Company respirator project in the fight against COVID-19, the Hurco machine delivery that was key, and their take on the virus' impact and reshoring.
Read MoreMMT Chat: Safety, Shields and Shuttle Molds
The team from Canon Virginia talks about business during COVID-19, its efforts to help the fight and recent advancements to its Shuttle Mold System.
Read MoreHaidlmair Produces Additional Molds for Childrens' Masks
After the successful launch of its first version of the mask for adults, European companies Haidlmair and Providee have come together again to produce a children's version of the same mask.
Read MoreArburg Manufactures High-Tech Masks
Arburg has launched a face mask project to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
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