D-M-E � your mold tooling advantage for over five decades

THE NEW EDGE MOLD BASE GIVES YOUR CUSTOMERS A COMPETITIVEADVANTAGE
What is the "Edge" concept? Its an A-Series Mold Base with seven features in D-M-E #3 steel with a 30-40% price advantage. with every Edge Mold Base, you get seven decades of reliable D-M-E quality-assured manufacturing capabilities that includes the absolute best service, price and delivery that will have your customers coming back for more.
D-M-E has supported moldmakers, processors and designers around the globe since it innovated the standard mold base in 1942. Today, we offer the industrys broadest range of market-leading products. In a recent Moldmaking Industry Survey, moldmakers said they neded an edge to better compete. Thats why our full featured, ready-to-ship mold base is called the Edge. Essentially, moldmakers name it for us! The Edge gives you the competitive and pro?tability advantages that D-M-E customers demand.
As you continue to positively impact your operations through process ef?ciencies, technology enhancements, and automation improvements, the D-M-E Edge Mold Base is with you every step of the way by providing the value, speed and exceptional quality that customers have long expected from the industrys standard-setter in mold technologies. Even our competitors look to us as standard-setters; so muc so, that today, competitors still promote their products by comparing them to ours.
Get the Edge Mold Base and youll have another ingredient for the formula for a successful, growing business, and a partnershi with the global mold technologies leader.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT D-M-E
Where is the Edge Mold Base manufactured?
The D-M-E Edge Mold Base is manufactured by D-M-Es sister company located in Brazil. D-M-E has had an extensive manufacturingand distributing presence in Brazil for over 20 years. The Edge Mold Base is manufactured using the same stringent quality-assured processes and standards that have been adhered to during the manufacture of D-M-E U.S.-made mold bases for many decades. This manufacturing consistency and repeatability on every continent ensures D-M-E customers that every mold base has the quality steel and construction that makes D-M-E mold bases the highest valued mold bases throughout the world.
I make my own mold bases; can the D-M-E Edge Mold Base make me more competitive?
Yes! With our low U.S. prices, the Edge Mold Base is more than competitive when compared against in-house manufactured bases. In todaysmarketplace, most moldmakers dont have the luxury of having tool makers and/or apprenti ces make mold bases. Factoring direct abor costs alone, the D-M-E Edge Mold Base is priced so low that even the most ef?cient shop will save money by purchasing instead of making.
Does D-M-E offer special machining services?
Yes! D-M-E has the most comprehensive worldwide product offering for in-house machining services! Whether you need simple pocket roughing, 3D contour roughing of core and cavity blocks, or a completely ?nished mold base that meets your exact speci?cations and tolerances, D-M-E is the industry leader for complete, comprehensive special machining both locally and globally. No one in our industry Edge Mold Bases offers a wider range of special machining services, and no one in our industry has the decades of machining experience and steel supplier relationships that provide our competitive advantage.
EDGE MOLD BASE ADVANTAGES
70 different mold base assemblies ready for quick delivery
The lowest-priced mold base on the market
Most sizes available for same-day shipment
Seven popular mold base features
Reliable D-M-E quality-assured services, including manufacturing, inspection and distribution
EDGE MOLD BASE FEATURES
A-Plate, B-Plate and Support plates supplied with D-M-E #3 steel
Pry slots installed on both sides of "B" pla
Lift holes installed
Return pins installed 0.125 inboard to allow for spring pockets
Leader pin vents machined in the housing under the bushing location
Guided ejection installed
Three-piece ejector housing
Center hole machining included