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.
Christina M. Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology
New EVCO Plastics Facility to Advance Medical Molding Opportunities
Forty thousand square-foot CAL 2 facility to feature white room, liquid silicone rubber (LSR) molding capabilities.
Addifab Raises $6.5 Million in FIM Oversubscribed Funding Round
Funding to strengthen the company’s flagship freeform injection molding process, including its global availability, supply of systems and enable Addifab’s relocation to accommodate FIM’s expansion.
Haidlimar Initiatives Contribute to Production Sustainability Efforts
Recent sustainability efforts offer customers C02-saving opportunities for Haidlmar mold technologies, such as mold-optimized cycle times.
Alba Enterprises Relocated NA Headquarters, Opens New Facility
New production, service and training facility in Loveland, Colorado, ramps up 3D modeling and mold sampling capabilities in order to deliver comprehensive, multidisciplinary guidance solving application needs.
Rebranded Interface Offers Continued Injection Mold Cooling Data Efficiency
Burger & Brown Engineering’s rebranded Smartlink Tracer Interface can link to PC-based proprietary Data Logger software to receive voltage temperature and flow rate data for injection molders.
StackTeck Enhances Mold Qualification Capabilities
The moldmaker offers a virtual mold testing capability package for customers limiting travel during the pandemic, as well as for when future business resumes.
MMT Chats: The Value of Digging Deeper
Maybe it’s his passion for scuba diving, but this operations manager for X-Cell Tool and Mold loves digging deeper into relationships and mold projects. Brian Dippel chats with me about moldmaking, molding, business management, work ethic, employee-centered culture, expansion, customer relationships, deodorant sticks, acquisition and yes, scuba diving.
Christina M. Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology
Adaptive PET Preform Mold Meets Fluid Production Requirements
To meet continuously changing consumer demands, Husky highlights the NexPET system which supports a wider variety of applications, more SKUs, shorter production runs and more frequent design changeovers.
Michigan Mold Builder Gets Busines Savvy and Adds Vibration and Hot Plate Welding Services
Best Tool & Engineering identifies a new niche in vibration and hotplate welding and beefs up its business management skills.
Hot Runner Mold and Cable Checker Troubleshoots Mold System Failure
PCS Company’s Mold X Checker and Cable X Checker offerings detect open and shorted circuits and troubleshoots faulty temperature control cables respectively.
8 Mold Design Decisions That Impact Automation
Making the right decisions during eight key mold design phases will avoid automation problems and save money on price, installation and operation.
8 Ways to Increase Mold Life
A checklist of molding machine settings and preventative maintenance actions that improve mold longevity.
VIDEO: What Is Freeform Injection Molding?
FIM or freeform injection molding combines the proven injection molding process with the freedom of part design. Check out this video describing how this advanced technology works.
Shared Engineering Expertise Overcomes Design and Delivery Challenges
Collaboration on part and mold design between a molder and mold builder were vital to overcoming design and production challenges for a unique automotive project.
Christina M. Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology
Cooling Solutions Portfolio Offers High Performance Cooling Capacity
Frigel will bring a complete portfolio of advanced cooling solutions for the plastics industry at K 2019.
Tooling Technologies Offer Value, Productivity and Flexibility
Husky will be running its new HyPET HPP5e system at K 2019, designed to delivering better energy savings, system reliability, preform quality and user friendliness.
ALBA Webinar Focuses on Molds In Motion
ALBA Enterprises, with MoldMaking Technology, will be hosting a webinar September 18 at 2:00 pm, offering a variety of unique solutions for movement in plastic injection molds and die-cast dies.
Tooling 4.0: Connecting Industry 4.0 Technology to Your Molds and Molding Process
A packaging supplier applies Industry 4.0 technology to its injection molds so that components talk to each another to understand the dynamics of what is happening inside the mold.
Surface Generation Presents Research Project Results
Surface Generation joined a host of global partners, including The Boeing Company at the SAMPE North America Conference and Exhibition in Charlotte, North Carolina, to present results from the ‘Rapid High Performance Molding (RAPM) for Small Parts’ research program.
Amerimold 2019 Update: What You Should Know about a Mold Builder’s Role in IMD Work
This presentation will review the various challenges a tool shop must consider before and during IMD.
What Is Scientific Maintenance? Part 1
Part one of this three-part series explains how to create a scientific maintenance plan based on a toolroom’s current data collection and usage.
Alba Enterprises Announces CEO
Rich Oles joins Alba Enterprises as President and CEO.
Automated Mold-Insert Changing Via Robot for Short Runs
At Fakuma 2018 show in Germany, Engel Austria (U.S. office in York, Pa.) is presenting three premieres in one exhibit.
Up Close with Engel LSR Technology
Engel’s Open House, run in conjunction with the LSR 2018 Conference in Anaheim, CA brought over 100 guests up close to the latest in LSR molding technology.
Database Helps Molders Limit Molding Out-of-Spec Parts
Mobile Specs offers a large, searchable database online and in app that provides molders with processing parameter set points for thousands of molding materials. Molders can use the site to reduce molding out-of-spec parts.
RJG and Key Up Education Offer Field Trips
Third graders enjoyed field trips to an injection molding lab, allowing them to connect with math and science in the real world.
YG-1 Presents New Offering for Die and Mold Applications
Die and mold customers can now select tools by materials machined.
