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Comprehensive service formulates standard, custom SMCs

CAMX 2024: As an SMC product manufacturer, Molding Products LLC provides SMC formulations and technical support for diverse markets, from R&D to post-production.

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Molding Products LLC (South Bend, Ind., U.S.) specializes in engineered sheet molding compound (SMC) products. The company’s state-of-the-art Technology Center is equipped to handle the entire lifecycle of product development. Intending to optimize SMC and tooling designs for precision and efficiency, Mold Products designs, develops and scales up with R&D SMC machinery and several prototype large pattern presses.

Molding Products’ expertise spans transportation, infrastructure, construction, automotive, agricultural, HVAC, heavy-duty trucks and more sectors. While it is not directly involved in custom molding, it has expanded its operations through key alliance, enabling the company to offer customers comprehensive solutions from initial concept to final product.

It provides custom and standard SMC formulations tailored to customers’ specific needs, with aid from the company’s technical support team. Molding Products aims to demonstrate how its SMC products and solutions can elevate its collaborators’ businesses — whether for high-strength structural applications, low-density lightweight parts or adherence to stringent Class A automotive standards.

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