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...