The 16,000-sq.-ft. toolroom at metalformer Batesville Tool Die (BTD), Batesville, IN, employs 76 professionals who primarily focus on integrating engineering changes to existing automotive dies. New-die design and build comprises about 40 percent of toolroom activity for the automotive stamper. In 2010, the BTD toolroom built or re-engineered some 200 dies, and expects to handle the same volume of work in 2011, focused on keeping its 40 production-stamping presses up and running.
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