Lindsay Mann, Author at MTD Micro Molding

Secrets to Longevity & Lessons Learned Along the Way

Aug 8, 2017 | In the News

Around Father’s Day, Medical Design & Outsourcing took a look at what lessons different MedTech insiders learned from their dads. Their article reviewed 5 lessons president’s learned from their dads, with the first two being authored by MTD president, Dennis...

How Contract Manufacturers Can Survive in the Face of M&A

Aug 2, 2017 | Blog

The July issue of Medical Design & Outsourcing focused on contract manufacturing and addressed the trend of OEM and contract manufacturer consolidation. With all the of the mergers and acquisitions taking place in the medical manufacturing space, you can’t...

Highlighting Micro Design Mistakes

Jul 10, 2017 | In the News

Plastics News promoted MTD’s latest MicroSeries this month as a proactive effort to help clients avoid design mistakes on very small plastic components. The aim is to manage a customer’s expectations on costs and delivery times. MTD has identified eight...

Micro Molds vs. Macro Molds: 5 Key Differences

Jul 6, 2017 | Blog

How are the main processes and strategies different for micro molds vs. macro molds? 1. Design Smaller runners, smaller gates, and because of the tiny details in the designs, most of the ejector pins are very small (sometimes as small as 0.010 inch). There also are...

Breaking the Mold

Jun 29, 2017 | In the News

MTD proudly participated in the June issue of MPO that focused on “the Miniaturization of Molding”. The cover story titled Breaking the Mold examines the trends in micro molding with a very clear final message: “Polymers (also known as resins) are now able to last...

Avoid the Top 8 Micro Design Mistakes

Jun 7, 2017 | Blog

Nothing is more frustrating for micro part designers than to spend countless hours on a new drawing, only to get to the manufacturing phase and find out they need to make significant revisions or compromises.Here are some recommendations from MTD’s tooling department...