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Mold maker Rocand expands to Mexico

Canadian mold maker Rocand Inc. is opening a manufacturing operation in Silao, Mexico, to supply local customers. “There is a lot of automotive investment in the [U.S.-Mexico] corridor where we are located,” Rocand President and owner Andre Rochette said in a phone interview from Silao, where he is helping the compa...
Plas-Tech continues investments in tool b...

Plas-Tech Engineering Inc., a Lake Geneva, Wis.-based injection molder and mold maker, is continuing its drive to strengthen its tooling operations. The company recently added a Mitsubishi high-speed computer numerically controlled machine and hired two tool makers. “Our goal with the organization as we grow in capa...
Double Your Machine Output-Stack Molding

Double Your Machine Output Compared to conventional single-face molds, stack molds can virtually double the output of an injection molding machine by distributing the plastic melt into two or more separate mold parting surfaces. Stack mold hot runner system in a tandem mold for large appliance with metal insert mol...
Fakuma Show News: Hot Runners & Tooling

Hot-runner nozzles, manifolds, and controls, as well as other mold components and a new tooling concept made their debut in Friedrichshafen. Ewikon’s new micro manifold technology starts with a standard manifold having up to eight drops—each of which ends in four micro drops that require no additional heaters and...
Pressure on auto suppliers to intensify a...

Detroit — U.S. car and truck buyers drove up sales to an unprecedented 17.4 million units in 2015, beating the previous record set in 2000 and maintaining a pace of growth that has many wondering how long it can continue. While industry experts expect 2016 will continue on pace, the outlook isn’t so bright a little...

Mold maker Rocand expands to Mexico

Plas-Tech continues investments in tool b...

Double Your Machine Output-Stack Molding

Fakuma Show News: Hot Runners & Tooling

Pressure on auto suppliers to intensify a...