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News Release from: Frech | Subject: DAW 80 hot chamber machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2004
Toolmaker invests deeper into diecasting
capacity
Adding further to its diversification policy, a toolmaker has invested in more diecasting machine capacity, this time to enter the LM5 diecastings market.
The arrival of a Frech DAW 80 hot chamber machine at the UK's Jones and Wilkinson is the latest chapter in a story of progress and diversification that began almost four decades ago For its first 20 years, the company stuck to its chosen task of toolmaking; but it took the opportunity of branching out into zinc diecasting when one of its customers found it had more work than it could reasonably handle
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Window hardware is another Jones and Wilkinson speciality, and last year the company spotted an opportunity in the market for LM5 diecastings, which it responded to by acquiring a 2200kN aluminium machine.
Until the arrival of the Frech, all zinc output came from nine SMT and DCMT machines, between them covering tlfs from 50 to 350kN and turning out castings from 0.7 to 400g.
Light machining operations such as clipping, drilling, tapping and vibro-bowling are also on-site, and the tool room has all the facilities needed for present-day die manufacture and maintenance - 3D, CAD/CAM, CNC and EDM.
"We anticipate that the Frech will bring the same precision to our zinc diecasting," said director Andy Wilkinson.
"In particular, the ability to save the settings for each tool will eliminate a lot of the time spent fine-tuning our manual machines for the next job.".
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