The hard-milling imperative: mold shops will have to do hard milling--or find someone who can do it for them.(Cover story) From: Modern Machine Shop | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Gardner Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Corey Greenwald "gets it." He understands that hard milling is becoming an essential capability for shops producing plastic injection molds. He understands how to perform hard milling operations effectively, routinely and confidently in his own shop, Hard Milling Solutions. He understands that as mold shops turn to hard milling, they are likely to need such a specialty shop to handle the hard milling they can't handle, either because they do not have enough time on their own machines or because they aren't quite ready to perform hard milling on their own.

Unfortunately, when ...

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