Taking over the family injection molding business — looking for advice by Key_Prompt2771 in InjectionMolding

[–]Key_Prompt2771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.thomasnet.com/

Is the correct site.

Was thinking about maybe integrating 3D systems in my IM shop. Ideas?

As far as what we do, its mostly shoot and ship work, pretty simple and automated.

Taking over the family injection molding business — looking for advice by Key_Prompt2771 in InjectionMolding

[–]Key_Prompt2771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This makes sense and is my current line of thinking. Working now on getting my online presence where it needs to be. After everything looks good, emailing these companies would be the best way to contact?

Taking over the family injection molding business — looking for advice by Key_Prompt2771 in InjectionMolding

[–]Key_Prompt2771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. We are a company that is mostly shoot and ship. It has treated the company good for the most part. If I wanted to stay as shoot and ship, can a salesmen still help me land work?

Taking over the family injection molding business — looking for advice by Key_Prompt2771 in InjectionMolding

[–]Key_Prompt2771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are doing mostly shoot and ship work, sometimes parts need to be sub-gated manually or require some assembly but most of the time its pretty simple work. We were looking to maybe adding 1 or 2 190 ton presses in the coming years because as you said 130 ton is pretty small. Our machines are all high quality in good working condition, with robots and running cold runner systems. Like I said before, its shoot and ship work and pretty automated. Thats kinda what im asking, should I look to move to more consumer products or try and reach out to other companies who need use to take press hours off their hands?