Highlighting Micro Design Mistakes

Highlighting Micro Design Mistakes

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

Micro Molds vs. Macro Molds: 5 Key Differences

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

Breaking the Mold

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

Avoid the Top 8 Micro Design Mistakes

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...
STEAM Students Visit MTD

STEAM Students Visit MTD

Today, we were honored to host the students and staff from Dudley-Charlton Regional School District’s STEAM program. The students that attended were the award recipients from the recent first annual science fair competition. MTD was proud to sponsor the...
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