Chris Sipe, owner of Northeast Tire Molds in Akron, Ohio, likens machining tire molds to evolutionary theory - while some firms go out on a branch and never go any higher, others can look a little further down the road and adapt to changing conditions. Mr. Sipe says his company is one of the latter. Having machined tire molds for more than 30 years, Northeast has moved from the traditional model of machining two-piece tire shell molds from castings to machining segmented molds directly from aluminum stock. Business has doubled during the past 2 years as a result.
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