Ultracold dipolar molecules in bulk systems and in tweezers offer unique opportunities for many-body physics and quantum simulation. Species with optical cycling transitions such as calcium monofluoride (CaF) are particularly attractive, as they allow for direct laser cooling and efficient single-molecule detection. However, these systems have complementary limitations: tweezer arrays offer excellent control but are limited in size, while bulk CaF samples have not yet achieved the phase-space densities required for quantum degeneracy. We will present a new experimental setup for the cooling of CaF molecules designed to overcome these limitations. It integrates a buffer-gas source with efficient molecular beam collimation using sub-Doppler transverse laser cooling, enabling high-fidelity loading of molecules into a magneto-optical trap. This provides a natural starting point for increasing the achievable phase-space density in bulk samples, as well as for loading molecules into large-scale optical tweezer arrays. Together, these advances push bulk systems toward degeneracy while enhancing the scalability of tweezer-based platforms, opening access to strongly correlated dipolar regimes and more controlled quantum simulations of magnetism and exotic many-body phases.