Specialty Die Development Achieves Cost Savings

This customer is a division of a very large national corporation that demands annual cost savings from their divisions. As a product line ages, continuous cost savings become harder to achieve.

All of the customer’s material blank sizes are custom and require delicate handling through the blanking process to eliminate scratches or dents. These QA demands drive the price of their material up and limit the number of potential suppliers. Very few material suppliers can supply a near perfect aluminum blank.

Jones Metal Products designed a specialty die to produce all of the blank sizes needed from a single coil. We can develop a consistent width of the material and vary the length of the material in our specially designed die.

The new die allowed the customer to choose from a wider pool of potential suppliers and decreased handling of their blanks. This development saved them over $100,000 a year in material savings and greatly reduced the quality problems and scrap that occurred.

Jones Metal Products continues to grow with this customer by developing innovative solutions that continuously reduce costs and improve product quality.

Jones Metal Products is an ISO 9001 certified, ITAR Registered company, providing world class hydroforming, deep draw stamping, and aluminum heat treating and vacuum heat treating services for the aerospace, commercial lighting, automotive, cookware, health-care and defense markets.