November 2008
• Safety program continues to offer benefits
• Longview Advisors


October 2008
• St.Clair College gains Engel electric press
• Guill names Ontor as Canadian rep
• Alberta invests in trades training
• Machining in US holds up

September 2008
• World Tooling Conference in Windsor in 2010
• Husky Injection Moulding Systems

August 2008
• CAMM moves to national status
• Sepro names Shadow Automation as agent in Ontario

June 2008
• SPI plans public relations onslaught
• I. Thibault adds engineering & innovation director
• Failing Maax bought by creditor
• Plastech units sold
• Training and educational seminars
• South Africa visit
• Battenfeld back on track
• CPIA offers international show space

May 2008

• Lavoie to step down after leading CPIA restructuring
• Provincial government supports Windsor show
• Tooling supplies manufacturer to provide scholarships
• Dates set for 2010 K show
• ITW Foils closing in Windsor
• Mold-Masters close to opening in Michigan
• Report looks at auto industry's HR situation

April 2008

• Redoe wins Visteons award for lens molds
• Mold Expo show
• Redoe wins Visteon award for lens molds
• D-M-E and Futaba form alliance
• Exatec expands PC glazing facility
• ThyssenKrupp to handle DuPont PI stock shapes
• Winter ends, golf season beckons
• Ledco assets being sold at auction
• BTI offers product development
• DSM sues 3D Systems over prototyping systems

March 2008

• Show booth makes the rounds
• Dynisco re-focuses on plastics
• Contest for apprentices returns
• Wittmann Group buying Battenfeld
• How Germany does it
• Husky offers global Altanium production
• Mold-Masters shifting US operation
• New industry group forming in Quebec
• Little cheer for manufacturing in budget
• Basics of Plastics registration now open

February 2008

• Little cheer for manufacturing in budget
• Q4 shows slowing in U.S.
• Makino launches new EDM blog
• D-M-E shifts service and support
• Fast Heat moves out of heating elements, sensors
• Machinery builders change hands and status

January 2008

• Next CTMA dinner meeting
• SABIC IP opens innovation centre
• Battenfeld in cash crunch
• Polystyrene recycling plant closes

December 2007

• Plast-Ex Summit coming in May 2008
• Earning SR & ED tax credits
• Plast-Ex Summit/08 is announced for May '08

November 2007

• Safety groups program pays dividends
• SR & ED session slated for Windsor
• Mold-Masters adopts 10-year warranty

October 2007

• New investor for Milacron
• D-M-E Co. (Madison Heights, Mich.) has new global management.

September 2007

• Toronto's Onex Corp. to buy Husky
• TDM seminar in Windsor and Toronto
• Catoen joins Mold-Masters
• Bottom Line on Energy Management
• Electronics event in Mexico
• A window on the Indian auto market
• Precision polishing for multi-media

August 2007

• Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show
• Exhibiting at EuroMold
• Windsor to benefit from D-M-E manufacturing shift
• Mold Masters private equity partnership

July 2007

• CTMA reports identify new opportunities
• Rapid Technologies 2007 – May 1-3, Detroit, Mich.
• ANTEC 2007 – May 6-11, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Medical Design and Manufacturing Technology Show – June 11-15, New York
• Western Manufacturing Technology Show – June 19-21, Edmonton
• ISTMA Assembly and Conference – June 9-14, Joensuu, Finland
• Interest free loans boost competitiveness
• New product introduction from Husky
• A sign of things to come?...
• D-M-E appoints new Global Business Manager for Molding Supplies Business Unit

June 2007

• New virtual HR department

May 2007

• Mold making community takes action against dumping
• New mold & process optimization tool featured at Plast-Ex 2007
• When will the bleeding stop?
• More collaboration to improve cost reduction in automotive sector tops survey results
• Windsor mold makers caught up in the perfect storm

April 2007

• The Establishment Rethinks Globalization
• Husky may go on the block
• Windsor looking at a crisis