Learn more about Quality Mold, Inc. | Plastic Injection Mold Making Facility
Technically, Quality Mold’s name is accurate. The company mantra is all about quality, and Quality Mold does design, build and repair molds. In fact, from disposable coffee cup lids, to golf club grips, garden tool handles and housings, motorcycle wheels, and automotive parts, you have probably used some of the products made by Quality Molds’ molds many times over. Over the years, their molds have included: Plastic Injection Molds, Production Multi-Cavity Molds, Shuttle and Insert Molds, Rubber Injection Molds, Expandable and Interchangeable Tooling, Multiple Slide Action Molds, 3-Plate Stripper Molds, Hot Runner System, Unscrewing Molds, Vacuum Molds, Blow Molds, Metal Injection Molds and Aluminum Prototype Molds.
And while the company was founded as a mold shop in 1995 by Mike Hatfield, a journeyman mold maker, now only about 60% of the company’s business is mold-based.
Today, the company is a full service machine shop with capabilities in precision CNC machining, customer wire and RAM CNC EDM’ing, Prototype designing, and custom welding. Mike says, “We are well known as a mold shop and are still one of the 3 largest in the Valley, but we’re much more. Today, our Journeymen machinists are equally adept at wire and sinker EDM work, design, as well as 3D CNC machining.”
Mike Hatfield is one of the most modest business owners I have ever met in my hundreds of machine shop interviews. But while Mike wasn’t willing to brag about Quality Mold’s exceptional service and capabilities, the numbers speak for themselves.
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Mike doesn’t believe in purchasing low end equipment. “You get what you pay for in quality, and our machines are high end, from our Matsuura and Robo Drill High speed Milling Machines, to our wire and sinker EDM machines (Agie and Charmilles predominantly) to our Mitsui, Schmiede, and Kent surface grinders to our Inspection Equipment, including Starrett, Fowler, Mitutoyo and recently acquired Starret HGDC 2424-18CMM. This gives Quality Mold the capability to do complete programmed inspections on customers parts and electrodes as well as reverse engineering for molds and other complex parts to provide surface models and drawings for in house use and outside customers. And that’s the distinction that stands out most!”
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