A recent survey of automotive mold-and-die shops reveals that the North America’s tooling sector’s capacity utilization has dropped to a new low point since the coverage three years ago. The ...
Several tiers down from the top, a universe of small companies keeps the auto industry moving — for now. • What is the tool and die industry? Approximately 5,500 companies concentrated in the upper ...
Blame it on NAFTA or lax trade enforcement, but the Made in the USA journey has domestic roadblocks, too. Here’s one: the skilled workers who make the molds and tools used in automotive parts ...
The U.S. endured a 36% drop in the number of tool and die shops between 1998 and 2010. Those that remain, like Fiat Chrysler Automotive’s tooling subsidiary, Autodie, have worked to adapt to the ...
Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Although Astro Tool & Die Corp., a Cudahy-based tool and die ...
ZANESVILLE – Every now and then, a business is also a legacy. So it is at H&R Tool and Machine Co. “I don’t think I ever envisioned this as a generational thing,” said William Hill, a tool and die ...
MEADVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Though he passed retirement age more than a decade ago, Bob McEntire doesn’t know when he’ll stop working - and his boss is glad for it. “He’s the resident old guy,” Bill Starn, ...