GH Tool & Mold, a Tooling Tech Group company and a supplier of die cast tooling and machining services, was recently awarded a 2017 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. To achieve this honor, G.H. Tool maintained a gold composite performance rating for each month of the performance period from October 2016 to September 2017.Read More
Century Tool and Gage, a composites tooling specialist recently acquired by the Tooling Tech Group, will be highlighting its compression mold capabilities at Amerimold 2018 in booth #725, with a focus on producing Class-A exterior body exterior body panels, structural panels, headliners, closure panels, package trays, acoustical components, trunk, and trim applications.Read More
The Tooling Tech Group (TTG) has announced the acquisition of Century Tool Group, which includes both Century Tool & Gage in Fenton, Mich., and CTG Bel-Kur Automation in Temperance, Mich. Read More
Coldwater Machine Company has announced its rotary friction welding (RFW) service for companies interested in prototype or short run production in the 100 – 600 part range. Workpieces are joined using the company’s SpinMeld(TM ) solid state joining system, well-suited for joining bar stock and tubes, rods, cylinders, fasteners, studs, nuts and fittings on various...Read More
OEMs and other manufacturers frequently require special machines for production and assembly purposes. About half of Coldwater (Ohio) Machine Co.’s business involves building those machines, but few off-the-shelf components are available. Therefore, CMC machines the components in-house at its 132,500-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility, and many of the parts are large...Read More
Vaporizing foil actuator welding (VFAW) uses the pressure from an electrically driven explosion to impact-weld dissimilar metals at high speed. It does this by changing a thin metal foil from a solid to a gas and using the pressure to push one base metal—over a short, controlled distance—toward another base metal. This all happens within...Read More
Coldwater Machine Company, a leading engineering solutions company that manufactures and integrates assembly automation and special machines, has announced another of its automated laser welding lines for powertrain components. Based on standard Coldwater Machine developed laser welding modules, each system is customized to suit customer requirements. This recent solution includes palletized transfer and of components...Read More
Coldwater Machine Company has introduced its own design for a guided rod cylinder for use in fabricating equipment and manufacturing solutions. It's perfect for punching piercing and notching.Read More
Friction stir welding (FSW) is often considered to work part-and-parcel with huge jobs: ship panels, railroad cars, massive structural applications. But, the uniqueness of the technology – speed, consistent quality, weld strength, costs – is drawing the attention of equipment manufacturers.Read More
