Valley Tool and Die Stampings

From 12 hrs to 25 mins: giant steps for faster cavity hogging, square-offs follow re-tooling.(re-tooling strategies)
Tooling & Production; 5/1/2009; 1770 words; ...move a diversified stamping house can make is...Pressed Steel, Valley City, OH, recognizes...taken in the captive die shop of this diversified stamping house have lopped...of two mainstay tool and diemaking operations...punch out a first stamping sooner and deliver...tooling--and the ...

MTD announces executive appointments.(Industry News)
Outdoor Power Equipment; 2/1/2009; 968 words; ...MTD Products Inc., a Valley City, Ohio-based global...joined MTD in 1962 as a tool and die apprentice and has served...in 1978 as a machinist tool and die apprentice, and he most...growth of automation in the stamping and assembly processes...

Dire economy steering Mich. voters to Obama ; Pledge to aid auto industry is taking hold
The Boston Globe; 10/5/2008; 1197 words; ...in Grand Rapids fret about the fate of local tool and die shops. A nearby General Motors stamping plant, which employs about 1,500 people...getting bad," said Horsman, 62, of Spring Valley, Minn. "We're not busy anymore." But...

LOUIEZEITLER; DIE-MATIC CORP.
Crain's Cleveland Business; 8/25/2008; 1167 words; ...apprentice at his dad's die shop, Allied Tool & Die, in the late 1950s. He had ideas to make the tools used in Allied Tool's stamping operations more automatic...which built the original Valley View golf dome. All told...

NIST develops new approach to surface profiling.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Quality; 3/1/2008; 973 words; ...automakers as manufacturing tools are designed for new fuel...retirement for the expensive stamping dies used to form sheet metal...parts--a typical production die can cost $2 million or more...surface to record the peaks and valleys. The process is repeated several...