Tooling Crisis

Next Tool and Die Futures Initiative Meeting Set for August 20th

July 20, 2010
By Joe Brown

Sales and marketing concepts and trends in tooling will be the focal point of next month's Tool and Die Futures Initiative meeting at Oakland University.
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Plan Scrapped For Refurbished Twinsburg Stamping Plant

June 14, 2010
By Joe Brown

Chrysler's closed plant, Twinsburg Stamping in Ohio, was close to enjoying a new lease on life until plans recently fell through.
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U.S. Tool and Die Industry Seeking $30 Billion Loan-Guarantee Program

March 25, 2010
By Joe Brown

This time last year, the American tooling industry were struggling from artificially delayed PPAP-payments, pressures to fund the material for building dies and molds while assuming 100 percent of the risk, lack of tools to quote--let alone build--because of foreign subsidized competitors and an apathetic government, among others.
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Michigan Stamping Company Finds Funding From Credit Union

March 21, 2010
By Joe Brown

One Michigan manufacturing company has received access to credit through a local credit union at a time when bailed-out, bigger banks deny, deny, deny.....
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Obama calls for American manufacturers to double exports

March 11, 2010
By Joe Brown

Barack Obama appears to have made increasing the amount of US exports a top priority. But exactly how it will be done is still unclear.
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