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dies & die shops
A forerunner in manufacturing
innovation (drilling, forming,
sizing, polishing) tight controls
of the products, Balloffet is
ideally placed to help reduce
maintenance costs, and provide
excellent quality and service.
The French company has bases
in the UK, USA and Germany,
alongside a worldwide network
of agents.
The product range includes
natural diamond dies from 6µ
to 2.5mm, mono-crystalline dies
from 6µ to 0.5mm, poly-crystalline
(PCD) dies from 50µ to 28mm,
compacting, stranding and
special shape dies, enamelling
guides, extrusion tooling (guides
and dies), special tooling with
diamond insert and repolishing machines and equipment.
The company offers training of operators and technicians at the Balloffet training centre
and showroom, or at customer sites. They also offer control and technical reports of
customer dies.
Balloffet is an ISO 9001-2000 certified company.
Balloffet – France Fax: +33 474 357901
Email: Website:
Balloffet – a forerunner in manufacturing innovation ▲
Complete service to
industry from CTR
Carbide Dies
CTR Carbide Dies provides a complete
machine-tool supply service to the
automotive, aerospace and rail industry.
Specialising in the manufacture of
complete tool kits, CTR offers a fast
turn around service, helping customers
achieve their own schedules on-time and
in full.
CTR’s expertise is available to customers
with a MRP II computer-aided production
system and bar coded trace-ability, giving
instant order progressing.
Services include CNC machining,
including wire and spark erosion, milling,
soft/hard and diamond turning.
The grinding shop has more than 50
machines from cylindrical, surface and
internal, as well as a variety of lapping,
honing and polishing machines.
CTR Carbide Dies Ltd – UK
Fax: +44 121 773 9342
Email:
Website:
lQuality and service from Balloffet