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Sales
Information:
Year Ended April 30,
2006: $27,800,000% up
14%
Employment:
Ironwood: 165
Two Rivers: 50
Total Employment: 215
Upcoming Trade
Shows:
SAE
Show (NEXT
WEEK)Detroit,
MI
April 16-19,
2007
Booth# 1116
Design Engineering Show
Chicago,
IL
September 25-27,
2007
Booth# 4642
Snowfall
Information:
2006-2007
Snowfall
196.3" to date
2005-2006
Snowfall
203.2" total
2004-2005 Snowfall
162.3"
total
2003-2004 Snowfall
200.3"
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Ironwood Plastics,
Inc.
Ironwood
Division 1235 Wall
Street
Ironwood, MI 49938
Phone: (906) 932-5025
Two
Rivers Division 2800
18th Street
Two Rivers, WI 54241
Phone: (920)
793-3060
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$500,000 Renovation Unveiled
by: Mark Stephens, Co-President
Work has commenced on a 5,000 square foot
renovation in the main plant in Ironwood. The new
area can house up to eight presses (56-ton and smaller)
and will be used for medical and
reel-to-reel
applications.
The “white” room will be totally self contained and will
initially house five (5) 56-ton Arburg presses. The climate controlled
room will have Motan material handling and separate rooms for
secondary operations such as sonic welding, pad printing and
assembly. The project will be complete in August
2007.
“We are excited
to have this renovation complete” said Mark Stephens,
Co-President. “ There are
several medical customers that are anxious to have this room
complete also. Our plant is known to be a very clean facility,
but this will take us to a new level.”
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Laser Scanning
Progress
by: Kevin Nasi &
Sheryl Sejbl, Project Managers
In the two years
since we pioneered laser scanning, it is now an integral part
of our inspection process and is widely endorsed by our
customers. We
can typically scan about 75% of a part’s dimensions in
one-fifth of the time compared to conventional methods. All that
adds up to significant time savings when tools are in the
conditioning stage
of a program. We can, for example, see where every cavity
of an eight cavity mold is in one or two days versus the
two weeks it has taken in the past. Customers are getting
on board also. They can download free software from
Geomagic and analyze scans themselves. Difficult true
position dimensions and warping of critical surfaces have become quick
checks.
This time savings pays off in
transfer programs and material changes as well. The
inspection procedures on those programs, usually under tight time
frames, are greatly reduced and we can provide quick data and
comparison to existing parts without inspection errors or
inspection procedure interpretation.
Our next step is to begin scanning
electrodes and cavity steel of our molds. Stay tuned for
information on that…. |
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