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Pyramid Mold & Tool has invested about $200,000 for a second injection molding press, a water temperature controller and a material dryer for its year-old technical center.
The Rancho Cucamonga-based firm now anticipates investing about $350,000 during 2010, primarily for mold making equipment.
Pyramid installed and began operating the electric 220-ton Arburg 570A press, Frigel Microgel RCD60/12 dual zone high precision water temperature controller and Maguire LPD 100 low pressure vacuum material dryer with dry air conveyor prior to the end of 2009, to take advantage of tax incentives, said Tony May, director of business development and technical sales.
The Arburg has a Selogica direct controller and is equipped with dual core pulls and RJG interface, similar to Pyramid’s first injection molding press, a 110-ton Arburg 470A electric. The new press also has an eDart conx process stabilization system from RJG.
The company’s tech center occupies 1,200 square feet within Pyramid’s 31,000-square-foot building with adequate space for internal expansion.
“Our next addition will require moving a wall to expand the [tech center] room,” May said. “The projection at that time will be approximately 3,500 square feet.”
With tech center capabilities, Pyramid can provide in-house sampling and first articles to customers.
“Tools are scheduled for sampling seamlessly and immediately upon being completed,” May noted. The center can sample tools as small as single cavity unit die prototypes on the 110-ton machine and as large as those able to fit within the 22.4-inch tie bar spacing of the 220-ton machine.
Since mid-2009, Pyramid added three employees bringing its total to 35. “The employees were added in the shop,” May said, and included a computer-numerical-control-machine operator, a mold maker and an apprentice.
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