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Article: El Dorado Molds eyeing additional equipment.(Special Report)
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- Plastics News
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- June 6, 2005
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Byline: Roger Renstrom
El Dorado Molds Inc. is exploring more equipment purchases and finding creative ways to use a recently acquired, vertical high-performance machining center.
The equipment "opens up our competitive machining and mold-making abilities to a significant degree,'' said Bob Brewer, owner and president of El Dorado and sister company Northern California Injection Molding Inc. About a half-mile separates the two facilities in Rancho Cordova, Calif.
In early 2004, El Dorado Molds began operating the VCP 1000 from Mikron Agie Charmilles AG of Nidau, Switzerland, a business of Georg Fischer AG. The center has longitudinal, ...