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Global Competition 30 MoldMaking Technology —— OCTOBER 2017 Antonio Mendoza, president of Moldes Mendoza, a mold manufacturing company in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, stands beside a mold for an aerosol spray cap. Mendoza's father founded the company in 1972 after working as a machinist in the United States aerospace industry for more than 40 years. a new office in another country." He adds that the company works very hard to avoid cultural or language barriers and currently has 10 people on staff who speak Spanish fluently, including product managers, sales managers, finance personnel, a marketing and sales coordinator and an estimator. The website is available in both languages as well. StackTeck has been very active at trade shows in Mexico for 13 years, particu- larly at Plastimagen in Mexico City. Day says it has been interesting to see how that show has grown, not only in participation from Mexican companies, but from Latin American companies and companies from other countries, too. Mexican Moldmakers Share Same Challenges, Opportunities Antonio Mendoza, president of the mold manufacturing company Moldes Mendoza (Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico) came into the trade in the same way that many of his fellow North American moldmakers did. "My father worked in the United States as a machinist in the aerospace industry for more than 40 years. In 1972, he came back to Mexico and opened his own tool shop. It was not for moldmaking until a customer came to ask him if he could build a mold for plastic injection. My father told the cus- tomer that if he could draw the mold, then he could make it. That's how it started," he says. "My father started making everything from mold bases to leader pins and bushings, ejector pins and so on, because no ready- made components were available in Mexico at that time." Mendoza says that his father's company was small but became very success- ful because of his father's skills in manufac- turing complex and close-tolerance parts. Additionally, the shop was successful because there were very few moldmaking companies in Mexico. Antonio decided to work with his Image courtesy of Moldes Mendoza.