Lighting
Components and Design, Inc., announced today that is had placed orders
for a number of state of the art injection molding machines and related
equipment.
This increases LC&D's $2 Million Investment in Plastic Injection
Molding by increasing capacity 66% while expanding capability and enabling
the introduction of newly designed, more complex products using multiple
materials and colors at one time
These new machines have additional functions which enable the company
to expand its palette of manufacturing and molding technologies, thereby
bringing newer, better and more complex products to market in the time
shortest practicable.
With these
new "in-house" capabilities LC&D will be able to mold
two widely different materials at one time, for automatic assembly into
a single end product. Additionally, a new "vertical shuttle"
machine will enable us to use "overmolding" and "insert-molding"
to produce more complex products in a single machine while avoiding
operator intervention and manual assembly.
This investment
in manufacturing technology will yield immediate financial benefits
to LC&D, while bringing our customers new high technology products,
shortening delivery schedules for existing products, and enabling us
to move into new product and market areas.
Lighting
Components and Design, Inc., announced today that is had placed orders
for a number of state of the art injection molding machines and related
equipment from Battenfeld of America, a leading supplier of manufacturing
and automation equipment.
This increases
LC&D's $2 Million Investment in Plastic Injection Molding by increasing
capacity 66% while expanding capability and enabling the introduction
of newly designed, more complex products using multiple materials and
colors at one time
Jacob Rosales, LC&D's Research and Development Manager said:
"These
new machines have additional functions which enable us to expand our
palette of manufacturing and molding technologies, thereby bringing
newer, better and more complex products to market in the time shortest
practicable.
"With
these new "in-house" capabilities we will be able to mold
two different materials at one time for automatic assembly into a single
end product. These materials may differ widely from each other in color
and more molding characteristics.
"For
example, we will be able to simultaneously mold both Nylon and Santoprene
which require widely different molding temperatures and pressures because
of their special properties. A new "vertical shuttle" machine
will enable us to use "overmolding" and "insert-molding"
to produce more complex products in a single machine while avoiding
operator intervention and manual assembly."
Dave Dickler,
LC&D's Chief Financial Officer said, "This investment in manufacturing
technology will yield immediate financial benefits to LC&D, while
bringing our customers new high technology products, shortening delivery
schedules for existing products, and enabling us to move into new product
and market areas."
"By
way of reference," he went on to say:
- "Our
Molding Division is "fully loaded" with little excess capacity
to make parts which we incorporate into our basic products.
- "We
have more workload in the pipeline, new products under development
and are almost in the enviable position where we can't build product
fast enough using our in-house facilities, so, until now, we've been
using outside suppliers to supplement our existing capacity.
- "These
machines will let us bringing work in-house that has historically
been sourced at our suppliers, saving about half the cost of vendor
produced parts.
- "Lastly,
we have new products under development, soon to go to market, which
will use up what little excess capacity the NEW machines might have.
In fact, it is likely we will acquire additional machines in 3-6 months
to accommodate this additional production.
- "Most
of the production on the above new machines will be under long term,
multi-year production runs which typically run 3-8 years, often longer
with minor modifications.
- "The
machines, of course, will be used for future products, as well."
Dickler
closed by saving "from a Return on Investment point of view, and
from a Technology and Capability perspective, this is one of the best
investments we've ever made. It benefits LC&D, its customers and
end users - Everybody wins!"
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