During the first two years of the Joint Venture NPL-Ditemsa
made investments of more than $2m in new technology and
introduced new working practices. These changes resulted
in much higher productivity and better quality which led
to a 50% increase in annual sales.
In February 2005 we moved to the next stage of our plan
for expansion by taking over the Plastic Injection Mold
business from SEPROSA, a subsidiary of Grupo Industrial
Saltillo which operates in an adjacent building to our plant
in Saltillo. This additional business dramatically increases
our capacity and enables us to offer plastic injection mold
tools as well as foundry tools.
Summary of Additional Resources
3,750
sq m (40,000 sq ft) of additional plant and offices
75
additional people including 7 European plastic injection
mold specialists
9
Gantry Cranes with capacities of up to 45 tons
4
CNC EDM machines capable of taking components up to
3.2m x 1.5m
10
large 5-axis CNC machines with capacities up to 3.7m
x 3m x 1.1m and spindle speeds up to 28,000 rpm
4
smaller 3-axis CNC machines with spindle speeds up to
20,000 rpm
CNC
surface grinding up to 2m x 1m
CNC
gun drilling machine
Large
CNC coordinate measurement machine of 3.5m x 2.5m capacity
Tryout
presses for injection molding up to 1100 tons capacity
Die
spotting presses up to 3.9m x 2.0m and 300 tons
Additional
CAD/CAM seats
This
complements very well the new equipment we have purchased
during the first two years of the joint venture which includes:
Expansion
of CAD/CAM systems
Catia
V (10 seats)
Unigraphics
(2 seats)
Pro/Engineer
(2 seats)
Powermill
(6 seats)
11
High speed CNC milling machines from Huron and Mazak
