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Plasticos 2009
June 29 – July 2
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Focus on machinery, equipment, molds, dies and materials for the
plastics industry.
ProPak China 2009
July 15 – 17
Pudong, Shanghai
China’s
premiere processing and pack-aging event.
Eastpo 2009
July 15 – 18
Shanghai, China
11th
Shanghai International Machine
Tool Fair
COMING
SOON
Plastec / Plastics USA
September 21 - 24
Rosemont, IL
Design & Manufacturing Midwest
September 21 - 24
Rosemont, IL
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Tool
Transfers – Strategies for Success
By Glen
Embry
Transferring tools can be a very tricky business. There are at least
four main types of tool transfers; new tools transferring from a
try-out shop or tool builder, an intra company press to press
transfer, an intra company plant to plant transfer, and an external
transfer from a customer or a competitor anywhere in the world. Tool
transfers can be friendly, neutral or hostile, as you can imagine,
with signifi-cant differences be-tween the extremes. According to
the Plante & Moran North American Plastics Industry Study
it is estimated that upwards of 360,000 injection molding tools will
be transferred this year due to the down-turn and restructuring
of the injection molding industry.
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