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Die drawing & lubricants
New generation lubricant
RichardsApex Europe Ltd is now manufacturing SK-60, its newest
generation lubricant for copper rolling mills. SK-60 incorporates
state-of-the-art synthetic lubricant design technology.
Throughout ongoing field production trials SK-60 has consistently
demonstrated significant comparative advantages with regard
to: Extending roll life, rejecting tramp oil, reducing operating
concentrations, largely eliminating the need to use tank-side
additives and longer emulsion lifetime.
Richards Apex – UK
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Sparkling Nota!
A private company, Nota Precision Engineering has maintained a
high position in the market for diamond drawing tools, specialising
in the manufacture of tools with superhard materials.
The Polish company has a wealth of experience in diamond dies for
drawing wire of carbon steel, stainless steel, stainless steel, copper,
bronze, brass, aluminium, nickel and silver, with different geometry,
in which the working part may be made of natural diamond,
synthetic diamond monocrystalline and polycrystalline synthetic
diamond.
Nota can also offer customers diamond and CBN wheels, cutters
and other tools with PCD and PCBN, diamond grain and diamond
micropowders, diamond pastes, titanium carbide, boron nitride
grains, and calibres enamel, inserts for cutting PCD, PDC, PCBN, and
diamond dressers.
NOTA Precision Engineering Company – Poland
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Worldwide reputation
Established in 1950 by Frank Fox, Foxton Die Company has grown
from a small, locally based concern into a worldwide manufacturer
of tungsten carbide wire drawing dies. The company has flourished
during a period that has seen general manufacturing ravaged in the
UK. Frank Fox had worked during the 1940s in the die department at
Charles Hurst & Son, a renowned wire-drawing factory. He saw the
opportunity of setting up a specialist die manufacturing business
of his own and so started the company from a small wooden shed
in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, just a few hundred metres away from the
current premises.
Engineering excellence and customer service remain the main
aims of the company, but managing director Darrell Fox, son of
the founder, takes a progressive approach to the future of the
business. “We really want to strengthen our message even more.
Our customers include manufacturers of wire, bar, cables, jewellery,
reinforced concrete, tyres and many more, but new applications are
being found all the time. Our experience in industry means that we
can find solutions for all types of manufacturing challenges.”
Wire drawing dies are a speciality, both round and shaped, but other
types of products are manufactured including extrusion, spinner
and guide dies. A cleaning and repair service is also offered, along
with various ancillary products. Dies are supplied, often from stock,
in any quantity and to any schedule to meet the customer’s specific
requirements.
Foxton Dies Ltd – UK
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