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It can handle sheet 24- to 10-gauge thick in blank sizes to 4 by 8 ft. Pallet capacity: 4400 lb.
Order Volumes Double— Time for a New Strategy
The power-supply chassis job origi- nally came into the shop with a pro- duction quantity of 400/week, also a perfect fit for the company’s metal-fab- rication department. But over time, order volumes for the chassis have more than doubled, nearing 900/week at times. Time to move it to a hard-tooled stamping operation, says Denholtz.
“The 2510 excels at high-speed long- running jobs, at up to 1500 parts/month or so,” he says, noting that the machine is “twice as fast as some of our other tur- ret presses. However, as order volumes climb, like they did with the power- supply chassis, we can look to save our customers a lot of money by hard tool- ing the jobs for stamping.
“In this case, Denholtz continues, “moving chassis production to a hard tool for stamping will reduce our cus- tomer’s costs by 25 percent. The part, with so many perforated holes, requires a lot of turret time; payback for the stamping die will come in at about eight months.”
A Healthy Uptick in 2010; Plans for an Even Better 2011
Denholtz expects that by the end of the year, Durex will have shown 30 to 40 percent growth compared to 2009, not- ing that the business uptick has result- ed in part from two recent acquisitions: family-owned custom metal-fabrica- tion shop P. Feiner & Sons, in Bogota, NJ; and Sternvent Co., a manufacturer of dust-collection systems for the wood, metal-finishing, chemical and pharma- ceutical industries. The acquistions join Durex’s existing inhouse product lines, Creative Serving and White Rail. (Learn more at www. durexinc.com.)
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“All of the fabrication for P. Feiner & Sons’ accounts, as well as for the Stern- vent dust collectors, has moved over to our facility,” Denholtz adds, providing plenty of new work for his burgeoning fabrication shop. MF
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