Our press release page is designed to keep you up to date with all the latest stories and PR coverage related to Midas and our client based work.

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TCT October 2010

........Midas to showcase large PU mouldings and assembly capabilities at TCT 2010....................

Cast Metal & Diecasting Times May 2010

......Specialising in producing patterns for thin walled complex castings................

EPPM March 2010

..........Midas mouldings helps slash consumer and health safety testing times...............

PRW February 2010

..........putting design under the microscope.................

PDMEvent.com January 2010

........MRIM tooling allows the most complex of shapes to be made............

'New Design' magazine November 2009

Midas Manufacturing supports 'The Alloy' with high quality PU moulded parts.............

TCT Magazine October 2009

Midas - 20 years in the Making................

Engineering Capacity Online July 09

CNC investment at the Midas Pattern Company means that patterns for castings can be produced in just two days. In the case of rotational mould tools it is quite usual for castings of 2m by 1m to be produced.

Mould Technology March / April 2009

'Speed accuracy and reproducibility' were watchwords employed by Acrobot for the development of its Acrobot Navigator computer assisted surgery system...............

Subcon Scene January 2009

.....Design, function and advanced manufacturing technology come together to enable recording equipment specialist to get a niche product from idea to market..........

Design Products & Applications January 2009

French medical ultrasound equipment manufacturer, Sonoscanner and its London based design consultant, Wills Watson discover the benefits of a proprietary composite resin tooling system when deciding on the best way to mould a large scanner control deck............

Foundryman Magazine December 2008

'Midas invests in new Horizontal Machining centre to boost productivity'.........

TCT Magazine.com October 2008

'There was a really good atmosphere at the show, with lots of energetic and positive visitors ready to discuss existing and future projects'.........

Machinery Market August 2008

'Rachel Collier, has been awarded the 2008 Kathbert Trophy by the Institution of Engineering Designers.............'

Engineering Capacity August 2008

'FLEXrim uses an enclosed mould process to prototype large items such as floormats, bumpers, infills and over mouldings.........'

Bedfordshire on Sunday Web Article August 08

Top Local Paper runs online article outlining the Midas 3 Peaks Challenge for Macmillan Cancer Care

Engineering Magazine July / August 2008

'Midas and Kinneir Dufort collaborated, forming a team to create a solution that combined both metal castings and large PuR mouldings, to produce a robust machine that maintained Acrobot's desired 'high tech' feel..........

Machinery Market July 2008

'Our investment in the Correa machine means that we can now offer our customers much greater speed, reactivity and flexibility on rotational moulds, PUR tooling, models and patterns..........'

Production Engineering Solutions July 2008

'Midas selected the Diana from a wide range of machines and the investment will add fantastic flexibility to its existing protfolio of machines...........'

Mould Technology May / June 2008

'With annual volumes of Genie Complete II expected to be around 500 systems a year, the cost of traditional tooling for injection moulding was prohibitive on this project. However these numbers are ideal for MRIM, .................

Engineering Magazine May 2008

'Medical instrument manufacturer SLE is using covers supplied by Midas Pattern Company to adorn its range of neo natal ventilators..........'

Mould Technology April 2008

'Tempus Developments, the provider of mobile data solutions, has used the FASTrim process, offered by Midas, to fulfil a high profile, time critical contract..........'

Mould Technology March 2008

'We aim to dramatically shorten the time and cost for a designer to move from a CAD model to a fully functioning example of a new product...............'

TCT Magazine.com January 2008

'Reaction Injection Moulding, utilising MRIM tooling, is ideal for our customers in the instrumentation industry...........'

British Plastics and Rubber June 2007

'to meet requirements for robustness durability and to be weatherproof polyurethane was specified as the construction material which led to Bedford based Midas Pattern Company being nominated as the preferred supplier for the specifically developed low cost Metallised resin Injection moulding (MRIM) process' ..........

Midas Pattern Company and Design Edge Design for Renishaw - May 2007

'When Renishaw designed the popular Incise dental scanner, the company chose precision toolmaker Midas to help create a moulding to produce a casing with an eye catching design' ............

Mould Technology April / May 2007

'When Oxford Instruments emabarked on the development of its new MQC benchtop NMR analyser, the compnay knew exactly what it wanted to achieve - so it turned to designer Crucible Industrial Design and precision toolmaker Midas Pattern Company to help make it a reality' ............

Engineering Magazine April 2007

'Midas Pattern Company is supplying tooling and components for use on a high profile project to implement new solar powered bus stops across London............'

Material Inspirations April 2007

'The main application of this technology is to produce moulded parts usually for niche product areas, in low volumes, where valuable machines, mechanisms or elcetronics need to be enshrouded.............'

Plastics and Rubber Weekly April 2007

'Crucible Industrial Design and Midas Pattern Company worked with Oxford Instruments to create an award winning benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance analyser' ...............

European Medical Devices March / April 2007

'Rigid parts can be moulded from enhanced polyurethane by means of a specially developed metalised resin injection moulding (MRIM) process'.............

Mould Technology March / April 2007

'Midas specialises in the manufacture of high qulaity polyurethane moulded enclosures which are mainly used in medical, analytical and scientific applications' ..............

Eureka March April 2007

'Midas created the mould from the prototype. As well as designing a mould that would produce the casing to the correct specification and tolerances, it had to ensure that the finish of the final component kept the overall feeling of quality' ..........

Mould Technology January / February 2007

'Greaves Best, which has known of Midas Pattern Company since the mid 1990's, had no hesitation in including Mida sin its shortlist of companies invited to tender' ...............

Douglas Duff Article - January 2007

'Demonstrating the success of a local manufacturing business, Midas Pattern Company Ltd has recently leased another refurbished unit' .............

EEDA Annual Report 2006

'Midas Pattern Company in Bedfordshire has dramatically Increased its flexibility and capacity after help and advice about training from the EEDA and ESF- funded towards 2010 initiative' ..................

Mould Technology November / December 2006

In September the European consortium for the T-Form project held its 12 month meeting......... Alan Rance, MD of Midas Pattern Company, one of the core SME's participating in the project, found the event very valuable'................

East of England International / UK Trade & Investment Article - November 2006

'Bedford is proving to be a highly succesful location for tool-makers Midas Pattern Company' ..............

Foundry Trade Journal / Patternmaking News November 2006

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