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Article: User-friendly programming increases forging die production 500%. (Machining / Turning centers).
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- Modern Applications News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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For complex shapes, surfaces, and details in premium brass hardware, high-speed machining and rapid programming open the door to increased production for Baldwin Hardware.
"People who buy our products are not just interested in locking the door," Baldwin president Ronald J. Foy told the Reading (PA) Eagle Times, recently. What these customers expect is extremely high quality in detail and finish. Baldwin delivers both in its line of forged brass products.
For complete quality control Baldwin manufactures its own tool steel forging dies using high-speed, vertical machining centers (VMCs) from Haas Automation Inc. (Oxnard, CA).
The company ...