No longer just a cutting tools supplier. Mitsubishi Materials’ transformation is serious.
By Joe Reynolds
“We’ve now gone from being a 48-hour, sometimes 72-hour delivery company… Now we’re 24 hours.”
Tooling only accounts for 3% of total production cost – Mitsubishi Materials UK is going after the other 97% with a total solutions approach covering tool management, recycling, project engineering, and a fully closed-loop circular economy, all within their own value chain.
Their “best tool policy” is simple: if their engineers can’t prove genuine cost savings, they walk away from the sale. Joe Reynolds of MTDCNC invites Jason Purcell of Mitsubishi Materials in the Technical Corner to find out what this transformation really looks like on the shop floor.
