UK Manufacturing Tool Making & Machining
DT Industries to compliment its wealth of understanding, knowledge and experience in both Design and Plastic Moulding also have a fully equipped in-house tool making facility, our single focus being to provide our valued Customers with the easiest, fastest and the most cost effective route to obtaining their desired quality finished components or assemblies.
With DT Industries ability to manufacture tooling in-house this means that any designs are correctly interpreted, your project is not influenced by external sources ensuring smooth development, tight deadlines are met, confidentiality remains protected and that your costs remain low, without being subject to in-progress variation claims.
DT Industries primary field of specialisation is the design and manufacture of engineering tools for the plastics industry. However we are equally experienced in the field of rotational, compression, rubber and blow mould tools, jigs, fixtures and test rigs, DT also offer a sub-contract manufacturing service.
DT Industries board of Directors, Damian Mason, Jonathan Merchant and Kevin Mapplebeck, together with other members of the management team, have an impeccable pedigree and a lifetimes wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of Tool Making. DT Industries Chairman; David Mason, being the former majority shareholder of Mason and Pinder, now owned by Polypipe, but previously the UK’s largest and most modern Tool Making facility.
DT Industries aim to offer a totally versatile and flexible service, we can work from a simple sketch, can generate full manufacturing data and a solution from scratch or work from our Customers 2D, 3D or CAD designs. Whichever route or option DT Industries and our experienced designers and engineers can work closely with you to arrive at the optimum solution to satisfy your brief, budget and lead times.
DT Industries as toolmakers boast a strong technical design team and excellence in technology, such services and operations can be offered independently of other services, all aspects of tool making and allied operations are undertaken, which include:
- In-house design
- Generation of technical specifications
- Project planning and management
- Latest CAD CAM software
- Full 3-Dimensional capabilities
- Product solid modelling and rendering
- Tool manufacture, tool servicing and proventative maintenance
- CNC and conventional machining
- Spark erosion, copper or graphite electrode production
- Acid washing and abrasive blasting
- Assembly, finishing and testing
- Tool trialing, utilising vast in-house moulding capacity
- Inspection, conventional or multi-axis CMM
- ISO 9001:2008 Accredited
- Collection & Delivery Service
DT Industries always work closely with our customers to maximise quality and efficiency in producing and servicing tools. Tool maintenance and servicing is another element for which DT Industries can offer as an independent service. Whatever your needs, be it budget or timescale, we can deliver the optimum solution. Fitting hot tips, improving cooling channels, polishing, cosmetic welding, re-bedding and venting - these are just some of the many ways we can give new life to existing tools, up to a maximum weight of 5 Tonnes.
Typically when the commercial pressure is to minimise cost and improve efficiency, DT Industries can alleviated the expense of sourcing new tools, to keep costs down, by offering a complete tool refurbishment and modification service, which with our vast experience can be tooled to either a specific budget and/or manufacturing process requirement. At DT Industries we are happy to simply generate a tooling report or carry out anything from minor design alterations through to major product changes. So if your existing tools are inefficient, require addition post moulding work, need excessive operator trimming or just not keeping pace with the latest manufacturing or process advances, why not let us have a look at them for you.
DT Industries can save you money by breathing new life into existing tools, whether injection, compression, rubber or blow moulding tooling.
DT Industries continual investment in the latest technology and plant, together with a highly skilled and committed loyal long-term indentured workforce, complemented with it’s policy to continually develop through its apprenticeship programme together with links to various and numerous Technical Colleges and Universities, enables DT Industries to be a highly respected local contributor of technical expertise, but furthermore these links provide information and access to latest technology, which in turn we offer to our Customers providing, confidence, security of supply and quality assurance, making DT Industries the perfect tooling partner.
In addition to our Mould and Die business solutions, we can also offer a complete sub-contract manufacturing facility to cater for all your general engineering requirements, be it simple machine components through to complex assemblies, small machines, jigs or fixtures, why not send us your enquires or ask one of our highly experienced sales staff to visit you .
For further information on our UK Manufacturing Tool Making & Machining please telephone on 0140 574 0313. Alternatively you can email us at sales@dt-industries.com.