Progressive Components announces the new ModuLifter™ Undercut Release System. This new component is a rod-style, standardized modular lifter assembly that simplifies the release of undercuts for large molds. The ModuLifter consists of six different base sizes that accept rods from ½” to 1½” diameters. Advantages include:Available with or without cooling, and hoses and fittings offeredAcceleration…
Production mold component developer and distributor, Progressive Components, announces the release of its new Component Certification program, which offers visibility of supplier component purchases and verification of mold specification compliance. When a new tool program begins, component specifications are identified and expected to be followed. Unfortunately, mold buyers frequently do not receive the mold components…
Wauconda, IL – May 1, 2017 – Industrial supplier Progressive Components, based in Wauconda, Illinois, was recently named one of twelve “Best Places to Work” by Crain Communications publication, Plastics News. Then at the publications annual Executive Forum in Naples, Florida, on March 28, 2017, Progressive ranked in the first runner-up spot amongst the twelve…
Progressive Components announces its new Z-Series Inserted Bar Locks, designed for mold weights from 25,000 to 75,000 lbs. Progressive’s Inserted Bar Locks allow mold designers and molders to select off-the-shelf components for alignment of large molds. Inserted Bar Locks deliver the maximum amount of guidance and support for the minimum amount of machining required. Long-term,…
Reprinted from Plastics News online, May 3 2016 U.S. mold equipment supplier Progressive Components Inc. came to the Chinaplas show in Shanghai with a very specific mission — cracking down on violators of its intellectual property. And it won a small victory, getting the organizers of Chinaplas to order a Chinese competitor, Shenzhen Threeup Mold Fittings…