Elevate Your Travels from Routine to Extraordinary The 2019 AMBA Leadership Summit, Feb. 27 through March 3 at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort & The Royal Beach Casino, provides the perfect opportunity for mold building executives to strengthen their leadership skills and build industry relationships while rejuvenating and recharging their mental mindset amidst the warm … [Read more...] about Association News

By Dianna Brodine, managing editor The American Mold Builder At the end of October, Harbour Results, Inc. (HRI) and OESA released the results of the annual study on the current state of the automotive vendor tooling industry, saying the industry is on track to miss the previously projected tooling spend for 2018 by $2.2 billion. Less than a month later, General Motors … [Read more...] about Tooling Industry Outlook: Uncertainty Ahead

By Lara Copeland, assistant editor The American Mold Builder In the community of Gates, New York, just west of Rochester, sits ROMOLD, Inc., in an 11,500-square-foot facility. Near Route 490 and New York State Thruway, the precision manufacturer’s services include parts and tool consulting, plastic injection mold design, plastic injection mold engineering, plastic injection … [Read more...] about Finding New Talent through Apprenticeships at ROMOLD

By Lara Copeland, contributing editor The American Mold Builder John Carter, principal at JVMC Transitions Group, LLC, works with business owners to prepare their companies for sale to outside buyers or internal transition to family members/key employees in a manner that works for all parties involved. Recently, Carter collaborated with John Hill, president and owner at … [Read more...] about Key Employee Buy-In Transition: A Case Study

By John T. Carter Insyght Transitions The primary goal of business owners is to “cash in their chips” and retire from their businesses on their terms. Ideally, this includes selling to a larger company for a huge windfall or transferring the ownership to an existing owner, the key employees or business-active children. The problem is that most contractors and other small … [Read more...] about Transitioning the Business on Your Terms

By Liz Stevens, contributing writer The American Mold Builder North America’s largest design manufacturing conference, PLASTEC West, will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, February 5 through 7, 2019. A resource for technologies, education and networking connections across the entire concept-to-market product cycle, the event will include … [Read more...] about PLASTEC West 2019 Returns to Anaheim