BY MIKE BOYER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
After 50 years, Oakley Die and Mold Co. will soon be in Oakley no more. The company, which designs and builds molds for plastic injection molding companies, plans to move late next month to a larger building in Mason on Innovation Way.
"Our growth has required substantially more space, and it's not just available at the Oakley site," said Harry Petrinowitsch, president of the 60-employee company.
Oakley Die and Mold is investing $3 million in the expansion, which will increase the company's space from 21,000 square feet to 38,000 square feet. The building was formerly occupied by Dover's OPW division.
Mr. Petrinowitsch said the additional space should allow the company to add about half a dozen new jobs in the next few years. Oakley Die and Mold, which has annual sales of $6 million, manufactures and repairs molds for automotive parts suppliers among other industries.
Milacron executive to be honored Nov. 8
Harold J. Faig, Milacron Inc.'s group vice president for plastics technologies, will be inducted into the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' College of Fellows Nov. 8 in Houston.
Mr. Faig, instrumental in developing Milacron's plastics processing machinery business into the U.S. leader, will be inducted with 22 others in the exclusive group. The College of Fellows, recognized for outstanding contributions to industry, is comprised of 220 of SME's 65,000 members.
Mr. Faig is being recognized for his 31-year career with Milacron, which includes leading a group of Milacron managers in the mid-1980s who conceived the company's now-famous "Wolfpack" product development effort to counter market inroads by offshore injection molding machine makers.
SDRC to resell Moldflow software
Structural Dynamics Research Corp., a leading developer of product development software, said it will resell Moldflow Corp.'s Part Adviser, software used in preliminary design to determine whether injection-molded plastic parts are manufacturable.
Terms weren't disclosed but the companies said the new agreement including Part Adviser in SDRC's I-DEAS Master Series extends an existing relationship between the two.
Harris Corp. division gets transmitter orders
Harris Corp.'s Cincinnati-based broadcast systems division has received orders to supply UHF digital television transmitters to Fox television stations in St. Louis, Chicago and Houston.
The sales are the first under an agreement under which Harris will supply Fox Television Stations Inc. with new equipment. The stations, KTVI-TV in St. Louis, WFLD-TV in Chicago and KRIV-TV in Houston, plan to begin digital broadcasting next year.
Andersen manager to give talk at IAMS
STYL parameter error P. Sener, senior manager of Arthur Andersen's Chicago consulting practice, will discuss manufacturing's best practices at an Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences' member forum 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12.
Mr. Sener has been on the board of examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and lead examiner for the National Association for Manufacturing's Award for Workforce Excellence.
For information on the session at IAMS' Bond Hill campus, contact IAMS at 948-2053.
Moore Binding Systems acquires Bindery Plus
Moore Binding Systems (also known as MBS Inc.), a supplier of document binding materials, has bought Bindery Plus, a document binding service located next door to Moore Binding's office on Williamson Road, Blue Ash.
Terms of the purchase weren't disclosed, but Bindery Plus has been renamed Digital DocuSource, offering a complete array of high volume digital printing and copying services as well as binding services.
Cisco, Oracle set manufacturing seminar
Cisco Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp. plan a half-day seminar Thursday on how manufacturers can use the Internet and electronic commerce to gain a competitive edge.
The session, starting at 8:30 a.m., will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, downtown Cincinnati. For more information: (800) 829-6387.
