Production Facilities
Facility
New one story concrete block building, 50,000 sq. feet located on 34 acres in suburban Erie, Pennsylvania, located minutes from Interstate highways.
Conveyor paint & powder coat system
Five (5) stage iron phosphate conveyor metal preparation cleaner, dry-off oven and two (2) baking ovens in parallel or series. (The ultimate required for providing a good, reliable bond between metal substrates and paint finish.) The conveyor has a variable speed drive adjustable for baking time and temperature. Uses conventional air, airless and electrostatic spray guns for conventional and textured painting in a enclosed, filtered and windowed spray booth. We are specialists on texture painting for outside panels which require top quality cosmetic appearance. Solvent base, water base paint along with powder coating is available. We have hardness, gloss, adhesion, and thickness testing for quality control.
Press room equipment
- 1 175 Ton Power Press 48 X 42 bed with cushion
- 1 75 Ton Power Press 37 X 29 bed with cushion
- 1 55 Ton Power Press 29 X 22 shimmy press
- 2 32 Ton Power Press 22 X 14 bed
- 1 Shear - 3/16" X 10'
- 1 CNC Turret Press, 56 station AMADA w/ full computer capabilities
- 2 CNC Turret Press, 58 station AMADA PEGA-KING with auto-shape indexing
- 1 Programmable service for CNC fabricators
- 2 100 Ton Forming Center WYSONG
- 1 90 Ton High Speed Forming Center WYSONG
- 2 60 Ton High Speed Forming Center WYSONG
- 1 Wiedeman 18 station Turret Press
- 1 Uni-notch notch and punch - 10 gauge 8 ½" X 8 ½"
- 2 Diacro Model #3 Tube and Wire Bender
Welding equipment
- 1 135 KVA three phase spot welder
- 2 75 KVA single phase spot welder
- 1 50 KVA three phase spot welder
- 2 50 KVA single phase spot welder
- 1 10 KVA single phase spot welder
- 2 Capacitance discharge stud welder
- 4 450 Ampere "MIG" Boom welder
- 1 200 Ampere "TIG" welder
Machine shop & assembly equipment
- 2 Bridgeport
- 2 Milling machine - power-production
- 1 Milling Machine - Manual
- 12 Drill Presses
- 5 Riveters
- 2 Spinners
- 3 Tappers - Automatic
- 1 Do-All Saw
- 1 Surface Grinder
- 1 Lathe
- 1 Trumph nibbler
- 1 Cut-off Saw - Manual
- 1 Electric Heat Treat Furnace
- 3 Autosert - PEM inserters
- 1 Kihlberg Stapler
Finishing equipment
- 3 12" Double ended polishing lathes
- 1 Belt Sander
- 1 Tumbler - 36" diameter, 4 compartment.
- 10 Grinders
- 2 Timesavers, 36" Wet-process
- 1 Vibratory Deburrer finishing mill
Quality Control equipment
- DCASR APPROVED UNDER MIL-Q-45208 Quality Control System
- Jones & Lamson comparator
- Wilson - Rockwell hardness tester
- Detroit tensile tester
- Johansson master blocks
- Paint glossmeter
- Plating thickness tester
- Surface Plate - granite 48" X 30"
- Various micrometers, verniers, plug gages, ring gages, etc
- Complete gage card certification system for calibration records
- Certified Supplier for many customers including ship-to-stock
Design & cad support
- AUTOCAD2004
- Supported by H-P hardware and plotting equipment
Computer & bar-code support
- Utilizing bar-code technology for production costs retrieval
- Bar-code labels pursuant to customer specifications
- DSL Internet access
