High quality tooling is the key to producing high quality parts. Poorly executed tooling will never produce good parts consistently. At Dordan, we make exceptionaly high quality tooling.

Every major component is made on CNC equipment that is digitally connected to the engineering CAD model. Molds, both production and prototype, are machined from aircraft quality aluminum on our large format CNC machining centers. Trim headers, die build-up, locators and assist plugs, that are all critical to superb forming, are machined in the same way. Die boards for cutting dies are burned on a CNC laser and the steel rule is bent, notched and cut by a precision automated machine.

Finally, all of these components are finished and assembled by skilled craftsman to produce the ultimate blend of craftsmanship and technology. Only tooling of this caliber can produce parts that meet the expectations of Dordan and our customers.

Dordan Mfg. Co. Inc. is a Illinois based manufacturer of custom thermoformed clamshells, components, blisters, bifolds and tray packaging items that services all of North America.

August 1, 2010:
How Green Products can win the Battle on the Retail Shelf


Soon, we will live in a world where Walmart lists a product's environmental "score" next to its price on the shelf ... where consumers will scan bar codes with their smart phones and learn exactly how green a product - and the company that makes it - really is.Until then, it's up to manufacturers to tell their environmental story, and the best place to do that is right on the product label....