Do People Still Make Things in America? YES!

I met with Craig Bovaird and Andy Samoiloff today, owner and vice president, respectively, of Reliance Engineering, to go over drawings and quotes for the Cookie Cup. As a design engineer, I know enough to make parts that are moldable, but their knowledge of the actual mold design and the molding process itself is impressive. (If you want to talk to them about sprues, ejector pins, runners systems, side actions, cores, locks, etc, I'm sure they can enlighten you.)

One of the big reasons I try to work with local companies is that the face to face meeting time to hash out technical details is invaluable. Here are some photos from the visit.

This is what engineering looks like.

Technical notes from our meeting.

This is a press that makes plastic parts.

Their on-site machine shop.