FABtours

06/08/2012

Cool (short) video about anodizing aluminum!

04/27/2012

Interesting turn of events: China offshores manufacturing to the US.

Stung by rising costs at home, big Chinese manufacturers now see the United States as a more lucrative spot to open plants in America.

12/08/2011

Manufacturing p**n for the day: How StudioNeat makes the Cosmonaut, a wide-grip stylus for touchscreens. Aluminum machining, injection overmolding, package printing/assembly and all.

Mr. Rogers shows us how the Cosmonaut was made. www.studioneat.com

10/21/2010

Interested in how things are made? Check out Warren Ginn's Materials and Processing Blog. Every post is a gem! http://ow.ly/2XbMY

08/16/2010

Join us at Da/Pro Rubber tomorrow for our 7th FABtour! We'll get a first hand look at hot stamping, intset molding, and more! Sign up at: http://FABtours.org

Custom Molded Rubber, Plastic & TPE Products - Da/Pro Rubber, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of custom molded rubber, plastic, TPE products. Whatever you create, we have the capability, knowledge and experience to be your molding partner. We work hand-in-hand with our customers to design and manufac...

08/12/2010

08/12/2010

Each white piece is used to clamp the esophagus of a sheep in a slaughter house - aren't you glad you asked?

08/12/2010

Dropping finished plastic products into a bin.

08/12/2010

Al Cotton talks about an 8-part mold in which one cavity is messed up, so only 7 parts are kept.

07/16/2010

Wow! Nypro is huge! Like, part of the Wal-Mart supply chain huge! They wouldn't let us take many pics, but what I could get I'll be posting soon! Oh, and did you know they are making insulin *inhalers*?! Cool stuff all around!

07/08/2010

The Nypro tour has been moved to next Thurday, the 15th of July! Sign up at http://FABtours.org!

FABtours organizes tours of manufacturing facilities in the Boston area for small groups of engineers and designers who are looking to find local, reliable manufacturers to produce their designs.

06/09/2010

Off to Res-Tech this morning for our 5th FABtour! Look for pictures on Facebook tomorrow!

06/02/2010

Check out Res-Tech, the company we are touring next week! You can sign up for the tour at http://fabtours.org.

In April of 2010, Plastic Molding Mfg. Inc., based in Hudson Massachusetts,acquired Res-Tech Corporation (see Press Release) .

05/31/2010

Thanks to everyone who "liked" FABtours! We now have the Facebook user name "FABtours" and can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/FABtours

05/20/2010

Some behind the scenes footage from the middle of the painting conveyor system.

05/20/2010

On May 19th, 2010, FABtours went on it's 4th factory tour to Silver City Aluminum in Taunton, MA. Silver City Aluminum is a leader is a full service aluminum extrusion, machining and finishing facility, and we got to see it ALL - in action!

http://www.scaluminum.com/

05/20/2010

Our third FABtour was on March 18th, 2010 to Branch Rivre Foam Plastics in Smithfield, RI. We got to see lots and lots of foam - check out the pictures!

05/20/2010

Our second FABtour was to Paperless Parts in Nashua, NH. They do sheet metal rapid prototyping and have 3D scannign and printing capabilties. Check out the photos on Facebook!

Rapid Prototyping Services, 3D Printers and Handheld Scanners - Digital Solutions for PRoduct Development from Paperless Parts