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Author John Connolly
Source Time Compression Technologies. v5 n6 Oct., 2000, pp 40-1
Abstract What do you do when a company calls you out of the blue and says that they need two new molds and a load of injection molded parts in a month? Well, if you're a manufacturer that wants the business you have to be prepared to move fast. In one such project, designers at Line By Line Design (East Aurora, NY) - an injection mold tooling manufacturer - found themselves in that spot when fielding a telephone inquiry from Keilhauer - a Canadian-based furniture company looking to outsource some work. The parts Keilhauer needed developed were two office chair frames - one in glass-filled rynite and one in polypropylene. The parts were needed for a new chair that was being launched at Neocon - a furniture trade show scheduled for the following month. Before signing on the dotted line, Keilhauer had two concerns: 1. Did LBLD have the capabilities to produce such large rapid prototype molds? 2. Could its tools run 30 percent glass-filled rynite, which is known to be fairly abrasive? XX
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