Tight competition, trade worries and the possibility of capturing work from overseas have mold makers looking for new opportunities and leveraging technologies to cope with tiny margins and a dwindling workforce.
See what some shops are doing and read these related stories for more information:
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
