Grow Your Manufacturing Business

March 23, 2017

Starting up or growing a manufacturing company can be extremely challenging and involves making numerous crucial decisions regarding financing, location, choosing the right machines, targeting specific market segments, and setting the right team in place. Here are a few strategies that some of the MFG.com members have applied in order to expand their business.

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Scicon Technologies Corporation (Scicon) is your Single Source Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Center. Since 1989, Scicon has been a premier service bureau offering services for one-off parts, low-run production, and complete assemblies, utilizing additive and subtractive prototyping and manufacturing processes.

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