Planning for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

by Dianna Brodine Fire. Flood. Tornado. Chemical spill. Power outage. Equipment failure. Swine flu. Labor strike. Natural or man-made, five hours of downtime or five weeks, disaster can...

Transforming with the Times at Blow Molded Specialties

by Dianna Brodine Few custom molding operations can look at a milk bottle and see their company history. Then again, few molding operations are led...

Substantiating Research Tax Credits in Today’s Environment

by Michael J. Devereux II and Adam J. Herman, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, ASA The Credit for Increasing Research Activities, also known as the Research & Experimentation...

The Importance of Mold Design to Productivity

by John E. Haley, AQA Corp. The importance of mold design on the productivity of a tool is often overlooked in the design of a...

Permanent and Durable Decoration with IMD

by David Coughlin and Dave Washburn, Industramark™, a Standard Register Business Manufacturers and retailers of nearly every type of product know the value of the...

The Pros and Cons of Reusable Containers

by Thomas R. Cutler, TR Cutler, Inc. Green sustainable packaging solutions are as simple as reusing containers. Reusable Container & Pallet Association (RCPA) members are leading...

Modular Molds Contribute to Lean Manufacturing Success

by Ken Jenkins, Pleasant Precision, Inc. The economic downturn has U.S. manufacturing looking for ways to do more with less, pushing the limits of optimization,...

ATEK Plastics: Bringing Its A-Team to the Molding Game

ATEK Plastics: Bringing Its A-Team to the Molding Game by Dianna Brodine Profile   Spring  2009 Located in Kerrville, Texas, ATEK Plastics is the plastics molding component...

Using Purging Compound to Streamline Production Costs and Reduce Waste

by John Pizzo, Sun Plastech Inc. A huge volume of plastic resin is wasted every day due to poor resin quality, color changes, and product...

Investing in Energy-Saving Improvements

by Ryan Thompson, Murphy Company As more corporations respond to an anemic world economy by putting capital improvement programs on a starvation diet, the age-old...

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