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Many of the company’s highly automated
machines run on lights-out operation,
meaning that they will continue to produce
as long as there is raw material being fed
into the system.
The automated production equipment
combines high volume speed and
efficiency with accuracy and repeatability.
Because of its investment in immediately
available inventory, average lead times
have been reduced from three weeks to
less than a few days.
As the company continues to grow globally
as a high volume producer of carbide
drawing dies, it becomes very important for
it to continually invest in newmanufacturing
technology.
Paramount is also a supplier of eco-friendly
products to the wire industry as its die
design allows the carbide insert to be easily
recycled.
Thousands of kilograms of used inserts
are returned to Paramount each year to
be graded, sorted and transformed into
good-as-new condition.
The company will exhibit a full line of wire
drawing dies and related equipment.
Products featured include the TR-Series
carbide drawing inserts, shape dies,
extrusion dies, polycrystalline diamond
dies, ParaLoc™ pressure and non-pressure
holders, as well as accessories.
Paramount Die Company – USA
Website:
Rad-Con
Booth: 09506-5
Rad-Con is a designer and manufacturer
of Bell type furnaces for spheroidize
annealing of wire rod for the production
of cold-heading quality wires (CHQ). Many
of the largest fastener manufacturers are
using Rad-Con equipment.
The company is headquartered in the USA,
and operates globally, with more than 75
percent of turnover outside America. It
specializes in one type of Bell type furnace,
one type of process annealing, and has
very specific knowledge in spheroidizing
while producing a clean surface that is free
of decarburization.
Rad-Con supplies capital equipment and
software, along with related services, to
manufacturers in need of a high-quality
batch annealing process that is part of their
manufacturing of hot and cold reduced
strip and wire metal coils.
The bell-type batch annealing furnace
(BAF) uses a protective atmosphere of 100
percent hydrogen, and it also increases
S S Annealing from Rad-Con