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For Immediate Release
Vadnais Heights, MN (March 22,2006) – MME Group Inc. is a custom manufacturing and molding company with a vast engineering base that covers a broad array of our customer’s requirements in many market applications. We are pleased to announce our New Electric Vertical Clamp Injection Molding machine that diversifies our molding capabilities!
The MME Group’s New Electric Vertical Clamp Injection Molding Machine:
22 ton Nissei
.46 oz shot size
Installed and operational in our new Class 100,000 Clean-room to serve our Medical industry or other applications that can benefit from this unique functionality.
This machine allows for easier placement of insert molded parts by utilizing a turntable to load, position, and orient the parts for a variety of applications. This improves the throughput and quality and eliminates much of the manual manipulation of parts compared to horizontal machines. The end result is the ability to produce high quality insert molded parts at very competitive prices.
Capable of being utilized in a wide variety of small part applications including:
- Insert-molding metal components with tight tolerance requirements (+/- .002 in)
- Over-molding components such as handles shifters, gears, housings, etc...
- Stripmolding technology – used to mold plastic parts that have to be automated but are difficult to orient or align in order to be automatically assembled.
Recommended materials include Nylon, Acetal, PBT, PP, ABS, PC-ABS, TPE's, and Urethanes.
MME Group consists of four divisions:
Minnesota Mold & Engineering, started in 1974, designs and builds high-quality, precision molds with aggressively short lead times.
Envision, the engineering division, includes electrical and mechanical part/product design development and production covering all customer requirements.
United Development Center (UDC), the Group’s molding division, grew out of the mold manufacturing’s sampling capabilities into full production molding and assembly.
Inroads Trading, the international division with offices in China and the U.S., offers full-turnkey services including engineering, molds, molding, assembly and packaging to customers who require offshore services.
MME Group Inc. is expected to achieve about $20 million in sales in 2006. The company operates 20 injection molding presses up to 300 tons, in a 38,000-square-foot facility, and employs 110. In addition to the medical device industry, MME Group serves the telecommunications, commercial/industrial products and automotive industries. |