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Article: Shaping the Xbox; Advance Tool of Blaine molds the sleek plastic shape of Microsoft's hot new Xbox video game console.(BUSINESS)(TECH@WORK)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 24, 2001
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Byline: Steve Alexander; Staff Writer
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Sometimes an engineering project makes a big impression.
On a planet in the Microsoft Xbox game Halo, an alien race has built an engineering marvel: a silvery metal ring that surrounds the planet like the rings of Saturn. The imaginative Halo game is at the heart of the Xbox's entertainment lineup.
In a tool-and-die shop in Blaine, 125-employee Advance Tool has built another kind of engineering marvel: silvery metal molds that press 480-degree molten plastic into the sleek black frame of Microsoft's Xbox. This has put Advance Tool at the heart of producing the Xbox, which in less than a month has taken more ...