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Article: Century of potential awaits: Part 2 of 2.(Special Issue )(Progressive Components International Corp)
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- Plastics News
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- August 6, 2007
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Byline: Roger Renstrom
Mold making adjusts
Low-volume jobs may not require a mold, as advances in rapid prototyping and manufacturing techniques emerge.
"Some parts previously requiring tooling through rapid technologies may no longer need a tool to be built in first place,'' said Glenn Starkey, president of Wauconda, Ill.-based Progressive Components International Corp., a tooling-components supplier.
Mold makers will build tools with higher complexity for mass volumes using advanced injection molding processes, part-reduction techniques and improvements in in-mold labeling, decorating and assembly, Starkey said. The trend is to put ...