Quick turnaround in the toolroom at Wiegel Tool Works supports the company's own expanding pressroom activities, and those of its customers, allowing the electronic-component stamper to remain globally competitive. Die complexity and size, and the quest for prolonged life of die components, are some of the issues keeping the toolroom at Wiegel Tool Works, Wood Dale, IL, on its toes these days. All the while, the company's pressroom continues to require its dies to run at faster speeds and provide a higher degree of accuracy. With the acquisition in 2006 of a new 450-ton variable-stroke press - with a 120-in.-long bed - the firm now finds itself quoting numerous projects requiring more complex and larger dies.
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