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Additive Manufacturing

How Hybrid Tooling Accelerates Product Development, Sustainability for PepsiCo

The consumer products giant used to wait weeks and spend thousands on each iteration of a prototype blow mold. Now, new blow molds are available in days and cost just a few hundred dollars.

Peter Zelinski
Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing

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Hammonton Mold, ADOP France Forge Strategic Partnership in Injection Blow Moldmaking

Hammonton Mold Inc., a leading full-service mold shop based in New Jersey specializing in injection blow molds (IBM), proudly announces its official partnership with ADOP France, a prominent IBM mold manufacturer based in Normandy, France.

Business Strategy

Bond Building and Blitz Programs

It’s relationship and experience and not shop size that allows the Enterprise Mold team to tackle some nontraditional mold projects—at least they are nontraditional for the shop’s Windsor location.

Big Kaiser Launches Online Customer Chat

Customers can now have direct access to Big Kaiser agents during normal business hours for application support, tool presetting, pricing and availability and more.

Hot Runners

Workflow and Quality Count

A recent visit to a hot runner systems and solutions provider proved the importance of workflow and quality to a production facility’s layout.

Industry Outlooks Diverge within Consumer Products

As 2020 earnings expectations diverge within within the consumer products sector, industry outlooks are likewise diverging.

Machining

OrderFox.com Launches Machinery Exchange

OrderFox.com developed a new feature that will provide value to platform users researching, advertising and selling and buying machines.

Plastixs LLC
Business Strategy

MMT Chats: Applying Bench Lessons to the Business of Moldmaking

For this MMT Chat, my guest is Mark Gauvain, one of MMT’s newer Editorial Advisory Board members who has plenty to share as he recently made the move from working for some big manufacturers to working for himself as a consultant to moldmakers and molders on procurement and technology investment strategies.

Christina Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology

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Why a Decrease in Consumer Savings Is Good for Consumer Products

Consumer products goods companies should expect to do well in 2018.

Business Strategy

Statistics Uphold Mexico’s Importance in Plastics Industry

Did you know that Mexico is the world’s second largest importer of molds and tools?

Business Strategy

Mexico: Manufacturing Mecca to the South

A mold-building perspective on Mexico’s manufacturing opportunities, trends and challenges.

End Market Reports: Automotive & Consumer Products

Automotive manufacturers may be hedging their output despite strong new order demand. Gardner Business Intelligence’s (GBI) review of consumer confidence, employment and credit markets all point to a strong 2017 for consumer spending.

Medical and Consumer Goods

Slower growth ahead for medical and consumer goods production.

One Word: Plastics

Plastics is still king, and the latest U.S. Size and Impact Report from the Plastics Industry Association has the numbers to prove it.

Double Rack System by CUMSA

Information Is King—in the Shop and with the Customer—at A1 Tool

This mold builder uses information to improve its operation, molds, and customer service from data collection to data sharing.

Christina Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology

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When Great Plastic Products Fail

Not too long ago I blogged about how moldmakers are often approached by entrepreneurial types with no manufacturing background about building molds for new product “inventions”. I also touched on the fact that many moldmakers themselves invent things, and I requested personal stories from readers. This is about a great product that didn’t do so great.

Business Strategy

Consumer Goods and Electronics

Packaging to see stable growth; electronics likely to remain soft.

Business Strategy

Electronics and Consumer Goods

Electronics poised for a rebound; consumer goods production also should improve in 2015.

A Modern Moldmaking Trend

Moldmakers continue to pursue adding processing capabilities—whether for sampling or production molding. One shop’s journey spells out all the required investments.

Design & Mfg. Software

Competition is Good

Losing business overseas motivated this moldmaker to re-engineer its tools, improve its processes and stand by its customer, ultimately winning the business back.

Data Management Software

A Look Inside Managing Mold Shop Work Flow

Moldmaker discovers the ease and power of the cloud, by using it to better predict, schedule and manage job flow.

Moldmaking Solutions
Automation

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 Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology

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Business Strategy

Moldmaking Opportunities in Brazil, Russia, India and China

Estimates as to the future power of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) vary greatly. Some sources believe they might overtake the G7 economies by 2027.

Maintenance & Repair

Guaranteeing What You Sell

Mold monitoring, done right, can protect mold builders while strengthening customer relationships.

Maintenance & Repair

In the Trenches: Tools of the Trade

Equipping yourself with the right tools for the job requires time, practice, ownership and maintenance.

Business Strategy

Total MBI for April 2014

54.3

Business Strategy

Consumer Products and Automotive

Spending on molds correlates with industrial production of consumer goods.

Cutting Tools

Raising the Speed Limit for Smaller Cutters

An auxiliary electric spindle enables this shop to handle small features and intricate finishing work without investing in a new machining center.

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