Silcotech North America was proud to once again support Caledon Community Services’ Velocity Ride. This year was especially important as Silcotech took on the challenge of becoming the Grand Tour Sponsor, in turn helping to make the 2026 event its most successful yet.

Held on June 20 at Caledon East Park, Velocity 2026 brought together hundreds of cyclists, volunteers, sponsors and community supporters. The event raised an outstanding $65,320.70, more than $10,000 above its original $55,000 fundraising goal, to help replace aging CCS vehicles that provide affordable and accessible transportation for seniors in the Caledon community.

Silcotech employees enthusiastically embraced the cause, earning recognition as the Largest Team of Velocity 2026. The accompanying photo captures representatives from Caledon Community Services presenting Silcotech with several commemorative certificates and awards in appreciation of the company’s sponsorship, participation and continued commitment to the event.

Transportation services supported by Velocity help local seniors attend medical appointments, purchase groceries and remain active and independent. With CCS anticipating the need to replace as many as seven aging buses by the end of 2027, the success of this year’s ride demonstrates how strongly local businesses, residents and volunteers believe in supporting seniors and caring for one another.

Silcotech extends its sincere thanks to the members of Team Silcotech, the organizers at Caledon Community Services, the 142 volunteers, fellow sponsors, donors and everyone who participated in this year’s ride. We are honoured to contribute to an initiative that delivers a meaningful and lasting impact throughout our community.

We’re proud to share that Silcotech North America recently received a supplier recognition award from Neotech Products for our contribution to the Neotech Bridge®.

The Neotech Bridge® is an innovative breastfeeding assistance device designed to help infants receive supplemental nutrition while remaining latched at the breast or chest. It is so gratifying knowing that our work contributes to such an incredible product that supports families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. It makes this recognition especially meaningful.

This award reflects the strength of our partnership with Neotech and the dedication of the Silcotech team who helped in bringing a medical product from concept to production. This entire project required close collaboration, problem-solving, and a commitment to quality every step of the way.

We would like to thank the team at Neotech and acknowledge the dedication of the hard-working employees of Silcotech whose engineering, manufacturing, quality, and project management efforts helped make this product a success.

At Silcotech, we’re fortunate to work on products that have a real impact on people’s lives. The Neotech Bridge® is a great example of how innovation, thoughtful design, and strong manufacturing partnerships can come together to create meaningful solutions.

Thank you again to Neotech for this recognition and for the opportunity to be part of this journey. We look forward to continuing our partnership in the years ahead.

Silcotech was proud to sponsor Wines of the World 2026, hosted by the Rotary International Club of Caledon on June 6th at Caledon Equestrian Park. The weather couldn’t have been better for such an incredible outdoor event! It was a wonderful evening, President Michael Maloney and Vice-President Isolde Boettger were at the event pouring wine for the attendees at Silcotech’s sponsored table. We were pleased to be there representing Silcotech, sharing more about what we do, and supporting an event that helps fund meaningful Rotary initiatives in our community and beyond.

At Silcotech, community involvement has always been an important part of who we are. Events like Wines of the World show the impact that can be made when local businesses, volunteers, sponsors, and attendees come together for a great cause. Thank you to the Rotary Club of Caledon, the volunteers, fellow sponsors, and everyone who attended and helped make the evening such a success. We look forward to next year’s event (hopefully it’ll be the best one yet!). Those interested in supporting the Rotary Club of Caledon can learn more about the club, its community projects, and ways to get involved or donate by visiting the Rotary Club of Caledon website www.caledonrotary.com or contacting the club directly at rcpalgrave@gmail.com.

Silcotech North America recently held an internal Town Hall, where we came together to review our progress, celebrate achievements, and align on the road ahead.

Over the past year, we’ve continued to build on our momentum, including strong year-over-year sales growth, excellent audit performance with multiple 100% scores, ongoing investments in training and skill development, and a continued focus on safety, quality, and operational improvement. We also highlighted the importance of 5S and workplace organization, recognized improvements across our facility, and reinforced our commitment to addressing customer issues through corrective action and continuous improvement. It was equally meaningful to reflect on our community initiatives, including holiday donations and employee engagement activities, which remain an important part of who we are as a company.

Thank you to everyone at Silcotech for your hard work, commitment, and contributions. Events like this remind us that our success is built by the strength of our people.

This week, Silcotech’s leadership team, Isolde Boettger, Michael Maloney, and Yogesh Chauhan had the opportunity to attend Arburg Technology Days at ARBURG GmbH + Co KG in Lossburg, Germany.

Events like this are where the future of manufacturing takes shape.

Across the event, the team explored advances in:

• Next-generation injection molding platforms
• Integrated automation and turnkey production systems
• Digital manufacturing and production monitoring
• Technologies shaping the next generation of smart factories

For Silcotech, maintaining close collaboration with leading technology partners is essential. The innovations showcased, from advanced automation to digital production intelligence, are exactly the kinds of tools that help improve efficiency, traceability, and reliability in complex molding environments.

Industry events like Arburg Technology Days are more than demonstrations of new equipment. They are opportunities to exchange technical insight, strengthen partnerships, and continue pushing the boundaries of precision manufacturing.

Thank you to the Arburg team for hosting such a technically rich and forward-looking event.

By Michael Maloney

Multishot in-mold assembly, an advanced manufacturing approach that produces multiple, fully assembled components within a single molding process, offers considerable benefits – particularly in liquid silicone rubber (LSR) applications at volumes exceeding 100,000 units.

While the technique demands a higher level of tooling, process and material expertise, its benefits are substantial. Chief among them are reduced product risk, lower total system cost and improved manufacturing reliability.

At its core, multishot in-mold assembly fundamentally changes how products are designed and manufactured. Rather than producing and managing numerous discrete parts that must later be handled, oriented and assembled, components are formed and assembled directly in the mold following highly predictable and repeatable process steps. This dramatically reduces the number of variables—and therefore failure modes—within the finished product.

Reducing Product and Assembly Risk

One of the most significant advantages of multishot in-mold assembly is risk reduction. By eliminating separate part handling and downstream assembly operations, manufacturers reduce the opportunity for misalignment, contamination, damage or assembly error. The number of part-to-part combinations is drastically reduced, which simplifies validation and increases overall process robustness—an especially important consideration in highly regulated industries such as medical devices.

Inventory reduction is another immediate benefit. Managing large volumes of individual molded components introduces cost, complexity and risk, from storage and tracking to reorientation and feeding into assembly workstations. Whether handled manually or through automation, each additional step adds variability. Dedicated assembly automation, while effective, often carries substantial capital expense and long development timelines.

In many cases, part reorientation alone—using bowl feeders, vision systems and auxiliary handling equipment—can exceed $500,000 per part within a subsystem. By contrast, multishot in-mold assembly leverages the inherent orientation created during molding. Eliminating these secondary systems can reduce assembly-related capital and operating costs by 25% or more.

Early Design Collaboration Is Critical

Successful implementation begins long before steel is cut. Early collaboration between product designers, process engineers and brand owners is essential. Many engineering teams naturally approach product development assuming traditional discrete part assembly. Multishot in-mold assembly requires a different mindset—one that considers […]

Technicians from Silcotech improved their skills with ARBURG, Inc. robots recently with a hands on training workshop hosted by Arburg at Silcotech’s Bolton manufacturing facility. The training further strengthened its internal capabilities in robotic automation, process control, and advanced manufacturing.

Throughout the multiple training sessions, Silcotech’s technicians developed a deep understanding of robot programming for complex part-handling applications. This included creating new pick-up programs using four grippers, incorporating air blow functions, and managing controlled part drops into bins. Quality-driven automation was a strong focus, with training covering how to program bad-part drop positions using input queries, ensuring reliable part segregation and process integrity.

Arburg’s instructor emphasized efficiency and reliability, with teams reviewing and optimizing home sequences and learning how to structure robot programs through the creation of templates and the division of programs into organized zoom in and zoom out groups. Motion control and monitoring capabilities were expanded through the use of C-axis monitoring symbols, while peripheral integration was addressed by programming inputs and outputs for systems such as automatic box changing.

As the training advanced, participants were introduced to higher-level robot functions, including repetition logic, output pulse signals, and event-controlled torque monitoring. Additional instruction focused on programming part patterns with stacking to support efficient material handling and defining safety operating areas to ensure safe, repeatable automated operation. Each program was validated through robot dry cycle runs prior to production use, reinforcing best practices for commissioning and change control.

By structuring the training across multiple groups and levels of complexity, Silcotech ensured broad knowledge transfer while building strong internal automation capability. This investment supports greater process control, improved repeatability, and scalable production across demanding applications.

Silcotech continues to invest in its people and in strategic partnerships with leading technology providers like Arburg, reinforcing its position at the forefront of advanced manufacturing and automation excellence.