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News Release from: Frech | Subject: DAW 80S diecasting machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 January 2004
Hardware maker brings die-casting
in-house
Bringing diecasting in-house has been a success for a window and door hardware manufacturer so much so that it has added another diecaster to the three existing ones.
Bringing diecasting in-house has been a success for British window and door hardware manufacturer Paddock Fabrications - so successful, in fact, that it has added another Frech machine to the three it bought back in 1999 This time the company's choice was a DAW 80S, supplementing the original line-up of a 20-tonne and two 50-tonners
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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From just one shift a day initially, the diecasting shop - in Bloxwich, West Midlands - soon progressed to double-shift working turning out more than 18 tonnes a week.
And now it has surpassed that figure, with all four machines on three shifts.
"As well as giving us the greater productivity we need, the bigger machine means we can be more versatile in the parts we make and how we make them," says managing director Richard Harvey.
"It all helps us to hold our own in an increasingly competitive market, against rivals from Eastern Europe and the Far East as well as the UK." For Paddock sales director Nigel Hutchinson, the ability to produce parts on demand is the biggest advantage of diecasting self-sufficiency compared with the old subcontracting days.
"Imagine having to delay production of a GBP 30 lock because a 20pence casting from a supplier is running late," he says.
"That 's a frustration we've been glad to put behind us." An annual turnover around GBP 10 million and a workforce close to 200 suggest that the Paddock way of doing things is working well, demonstrated above all by its Lockmaster range - 150 variations on the theme of the high security door lock.
Especially dependent on diecastings - and one of the reasons for the investment in the new Frech - is the new Lockmaster2 window shoot bolt, which uses diecast components for its gearbox and strikers.
The company is so confident of the quality of its output that every Lockmaster comes with the guarantee of a 'site visit' by an engineer if any part fails (and they have only one man for that job, which tells its own story).
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