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Father/Daughter Team Takes Mold Business into the Future

Innovation, personalized service and a team’s collective mold manufacturing experience earn customer loyalty for 56 years and set the business up for future success.

B A Die Mold Inc. Celebrates 55 Years in Moldmaking

Illinois company known for designing and building “bad ass” injection molds proves innovation and love of the industry make a good recipe for success and longevity.

Technology and Sourcing Guide 2023: Mold Builders

A variety of processes are used to engineer, build, maintain, repair and manage a mold, which can be offered as standalone services to be contracted to complete a mold build. Access this exclusive, online-only content, including a suppliers list and mold building services.

Technology Roundup: Featured Mold Builders

Featured in this month's technology roundup are a few mold builders that possess the passion, determination and capabilities that keep the industry moving forward.

Unscrewing Molds Expert Fabricates, Troubleshoots, Tunes up Tooling

In addition to building molds, B A Die Mold highlights its services for prototypes, production molds, as well as repair, maintenance or engineering changes.

B A Die Mold PERC System Proves Performance and Accuracy for Unscrewing Applications

Amerimold 2021 exhibitor B A Die Mold develops a compact, high-speed, high-torque and high-precision system that is fully programmable, accurate and requires little to no maintenance.

2020 Sourcing & Technology Guide: Service Providers

MoldMaking Technology’s annual Technology Review and Sourcing Guide is a comprehensive guide for researching today’s technology, equipment, products and services. Introducing a brand new section this year: Service Providers.

PODCAST: AMBA Chicago Shares Its Strategies for Success in Workforce Development

Members of the American Mold Builders Association (AMBA) Chicago Chapter discuss the chapter’s workforce development strategies and more.

PODCAST: AMBA Chicago Talks Workforce Development Challenges and Strategies

Members of the American Mold Builders Association (AMBA) Chicago Chapter discuss the chapter’s workforce development strategies and more.

3D Printing is Solidly in Moldmaking’s Future

Francine Petrucci, president of B A Die Mold Inc., calls 3D printing the elephant in the shop because its time is imminent and young people know it.

SPE Mold Technologies Division Honors Two Women in Moldmaking at Amerimold

Historic honors includes the first female moldmaker of the year and only the fourth woman mold designer of the year.

Two Women Capture SPE 2019 Moldmaker and Mold Designer of the Year Honors

SPE’s Mold Technologies Division to present the awards at Amerimold on June 13.

Mold Shop Provides Precision Injection, Thermoset and Compression Tooling

B A Die Mold, Inc. will feature its high-quality, precision injection, thermoset and compression tooling at fair prices at Amerimold.

Ingenuity Solves Challenges for B A Die Mold Customers

MMT interviews B A Die Mold Inc. to learn how its innovative problem solving and patented PERC System for molding threaded parts has benefited customers.

AMBA Chicago Gets the Word Out at Student Summit

Eight schools were granted a $250 travel grant to help offset the cost of attending SmartForce Student Summit.

2018 Technology Review and Sourcing Guide: EDM

MoldMaking Technology’s annual Technology Review and Sourcing Guide is an accurate, comprehensive, easy-to-read and easy-to-use use guide for researching today’s technology, equipment, products and services. The year’s latest moldmaking product developments within mold engineering/design, build and maintenance/repair are broken down into 10 sections, including EDM.

B A Die Mold Celebrates 50 Years in Business in 2018

The company is known for its patented Programmable Electric Rotating Core (PERC) System for unscrewing molds.

Servo Motors Replace Hydraulics for Cleaner, Simpler Production

B A Die Mold's PERC System uses a servo motor to rotate the core, which streamlines the processes of creating parts.

No-Nonsense Tips for Promoting Moldmaking as a Career

MoldMaking Technology editorial advisory board member Francine Petrucci of B A Die Mold Inc. outlines a path to workforce development.

MMT Memories: Giving Back to the Trade

1998 marked more than one proud moment for this journalist and moldmaker’s daughter.

mHUB Lets Makers Collaborate and Create

Members of the American Mold Builders Association Chicago Chapter Education Committee explored a new resource for budding entrepreneurs and seasoned manufacturing professionals to learn, collaborate and create.

An Email Chain Full of Surprises and Ideas for Engaging Youth

I love when a string of emails turns into a pathway for new ways to engage our youth and educate them about moldmaking and the larger industry of manufacturing!

2017 Editorial Advisory Board: Francine Petrucci

The 2017 installment of MoldMaking Technology's EAB features a new crew of 10 industry professionals. Francine Petrucci is one of them.

Honoring a Leading Woman in Manufacturing

Last week I blogged about Jim Hommer, Sr., who was honored with the Technology and Manufacturing Association’s Winzeler Award at its Annual Meeting earlier this month. Today I’m going to tell you about the second of three honorees from that event: Francine Petrucci.

“We're All in this Together”

The president of the Chicago AMBA reports that members seem more open to sharing compared to previous years.

Leveraging Limited Resources

This moldmaker credits cross-training, unattended machining and a knack for problem-solving for its ability to survive and thrive through tough times.

Molder Only Runs One Mold with Fast Servo Motor— Instead of Two

About this series: For those charged with raising the sales of a mold building company, differentiating one’s company from the competition is fundamental. This quarterly series features actual examples of the front-line representative of a mold building company presenting new approaches to improve the customer’s profitability.