EoW March 2013

Feature 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 Website : www.richardsapex.com 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 Website : www.foxtondies.com 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 Website : www.nota.pl 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.”

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March 2013