Chicago-based private-equity firm Core Industrial Partners announced today the acquisition of Summit Tooling Inc. and Summit Plastics Inc. by its portfolio company Fathom. The precision tooling and ...

CORE Industrial Partners-backed Fathom acquired Summit Tooling and Summit Plastics, precision tooling and injection molding services provider. Summit is the fourth add-on to the Fathom platform after ...

Editor?s note: Bill Tobin is a plastics processing consultant and president of WJT Assoc. How does one determine the value of a mold? This is an interesting question that comes up occasionally in ...

Lee's Summit, Mo.-based Creative Blow Mold Tooling has acquired Big 3 Precision Mold's Centralia, Ill.-based injection stretch blow mold tooling business segment. "Big 3's ISBM business is well ...

Having finished the Tools of the Trade series on circuit board assembly, let’s look at some of the common methods for doing enclosures. First, and possibly the most common, is injection molding. This ...

Mantle is launching a new series of $350,000 machines that can 3D-print the mold inserts that are used to produce injection-mold plastics. It’s hard to overstate how important this will be — I caught ...

Nicolet Plastics announced continued focus and refinement of its manufacturing operations supporting regulated healthcare markets, reinforcing its position as a contract manufacturer serving medical ...

This core was 3D printed from steel at Star Rapid using a Renishaw AM 250 printer. Product developers and engineers who design and manufacture plastic parts now have a powerful new weapon in their ...

This week we publish our ranking of North American mold makers. The top 100 are in print but all 140 firms are online. Those 140 companies reported total 2019 fiscal year sales of $2.9 billion, a 0.1 ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CORE Industrial Partners (“CORE”), a Chicago-based private equity firm, announced today the acquisition of Summit Tooling, Inc. and Summit Plastics, Inc. (collectively, ...

If you have ever tried to make waffles then you are bound to be familiar with the following problem: You only get good waffles if the iron is heated to the correct temperature. The same principle ...