EoW September 2007

dies & die shops

Complete service to industry from CTR Carbide Dies CTR Carbide Dies provides a complete machine-tool supply service to the automotive, aerospace and rail industry. Specialising in the manufacture of complete tool kits, CTR offers a fast turn around service, helping customers achieve their own schedules on-time and in full. CTR’s expertise is available to customers with a MRP II computer-aided production system and bar coded trace-ability, giving instant order progressing. machining, including wire and spark erosion, milling, soft/hard and diamond turning. The grinding shop has more than 50 machines from cylindrical, surface and internal, as well as a variety of lapping, honing and polishing machines. Services include CNC

l Quality and service from Balloffet

A forerunner in manufacturing innovation (drilling, forming, sizing, polishing) tight controls of the products, Balloffet is ideally placed to help reduce maintenance costs, and provide excellent quality and service. The French company has bases in the UK, USA and Germany, alongside a worldwide network of agents. The product range includes natural diamond dies from 6µ to 2.5mm, mono-crystalline dies from 6µ to 0.5mm, poly-crystalline (PCD) dies from 50µ to 28mm, compacting, stranding and

special shape dies, enamelling guides, extrusion tooling (guides and dies), special tooling with diamond insert and repolishing machines and equipment.

Balloffet – a forerunner in manufacturing innovation ▲

The company offers training of operators and technicians at the Balloffet training centre and showroom, or at customer sites. They also offer control and technical reports of customer dies.

CTR Carbide Dies Ltd – UK Fax : +44 121 773 9342 Email : info@ctr-uk.com Website : www.ctr-uk.com

Balloffet is an ISO 9001-2000 certified company.

Balloffet – France Fax : +33 474 357901 Email : balloffet@balloffetdie.com

Website : www.balloffetdie.com

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EuroWire – September 2007