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moldmakingtechnology.com 11 .com " " product development and validation lab, and we can provide quality analysis reports verifying that our tools are built to specified tolerances. One of the largest blow molders in the world audited us recently. They told us that of all their tooling providers, we ranked the highest in quality, support, service, value and on- time delivery—not just in tooling types that we provide, but out of everyone. It was a great honor. Millions of dollars have been invested in equipment for mold qualifications. Explain what Big 3 currently uses and why such an emphasis is placed on this aspect. Riley: Big 3 Precision has invested several million dollars over the past 10 years in the latest, state-of-the-art IBM and ISBM molding machines to eliminate any doubt and to deliver what we promised. For example, for the one-step ISBM process, we use three Nissei machines, including a ASB- 70DPH, ASB-250HT and ASB-50MB. We also provide a Sidel SBO-1 Reheat Stretch Blow Molding lab machine for the two-step reheat and blow ISBM process. Our Nissei 70 DPH is housed in our Centralia, Illinois plant, and it is identical to one a customer owns. We design and build this customer's molds and then validate them on our Nissei so that when we deliver those molds, we know exactly how it will perform in their Nissei. To qualify injection blow molds, Big 3 has three Jomar machines (a 40-ton, 115-ton and 135-ton), three Uniloy machines (a 54-3-ton co-injection machine, an 88-ton and a 199-3-ton machine) and a custom-built, Big 3 BMP 145-ton molding machine for qualifying molds. We recently designed and built a mold specifically so that it could run in a customer's Uniloy 135-ton machine. We have the same machine in our Millville, New Jersey, facility so we can qualify the tool before it's delivered. While we don't have a molding machine to match every customer's own molding machine, the purpose of our continued investment in this equipment is to establish Big 3 as the best "turnkey solutions provider" to our custom- ers. Not only do we use this equipment to develop units and concepts, but we qualify production tools as well. Our cus- tomers take comfort knowing that when their tools arrive at their plants, they will install properly, and they will process as expected. It is also reassuring to the customer that we have already established and met the QA data.