Whether in Europe or the world, Germany is a representative of the market with high demand for industrial fasteners.

The technical capability and flexible processing technology of Taiwan's mold manufacturing industry have been promoting the competitiveness of Taiwan's overall industry.

The opportunity to enter the Indonesia mold market

The world's major mold producing countries include Japan, South Korea, and the mainland in Asia, the United States in the Americas, and Germany in Europe.

​Die shops offer examples of adapting to the skills shortage and excelling at difficult machining. Plus, why reshoring should begin with die tooling.

​The eight major Japanese auto makers were affected by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. In May, global production was 916,700, a 61% decrease from the same period last year.

​A gloomy economic report forecasts diminished automotive tool spending and shop closures. The overriding concern of the moment, however, is the COVID-19 pandemic, which has temporarily shuttered some North American auto plants and thrown the economy into turmoil.

The second of three monthly surveys conducted by Harbour Results Inc. (HRI), the May poll shows that all mold/tooling and production shops (molders, die casters, and stampers) are open and operating at some level but that nearly every industry and manufacturing process has been impacted. ​

​Few industries in North America have suffered more than mold making as a result of China's emergence as a global manufacturing powerhouse since its admittance to the World Trade Organization in 2001.