Want to make your own custom heatsink? Silver City Aluminum does aluminum extrusion, and lots of it. Starting with huge honking billets of aluminum, they heat it up to thousands of degrees and force it through a die, cranking out thousands of feet of extruded shapes. They also do lots of post-processing, including machining, painting and anodizing.
Silver City Aluminum started three generations ago as a family owned business is now a slightly larger family-owned business, running a massive, 50,000 square foot facility in Taunton, Mass and fleet of delivery trucks. They specialize in custom extrusions, and can go from a computer design to a shipped product in as little as 48 hours.
Definitely come check it out--this promises to be one of the most dramatic tours we've done so far!
Res-Tech
With over 30 years experience in the plastic injection molding business, Res-Tech provides quality services to a variety of industries including: medical, industrial, defense, automotive, food services and construction. Not content to be just another injection molder, Res-Tech offers a variety of engineering and design services, including rapid prototyping, mold making, rapid tooling, hot stamping, assembly, and special packaging.
Join us as we tour their Leominster facility to see their operation first hand. We’ll learn aobut the injection molding process while getting our hands on sample parts, watching an insert molding job in progress, and asking questions of the experts.
Logistics
We’ll meet at the west lobby (near building 36 and the play ground) of the Stata Center at MIT (32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA). Please check in by 8:50 am, as we will car pool to the factory. Please bring some cash (about $3-$5 per person) to help your driver out with gas.
If you have a car and are willing to drive, please let us know!
Nypro is one of the largest injection molding and contract manufacturing firms in the US. Their core strength is in plastics--they handle all the processes associated with plastics manufacture, from building the molds to decorating the parts, assembling components and inserting electronic components, packaging and shipping finished products. In addition to their factory, they also do custom product design, handle sourcing and supply chains, optimize design for manufacture, and lots more. There's not very many companies in the US that handle so many different aspects of production, and it'll be fascinating to see how everything works. Come check it out!
Logistics
We’ll
meet at the west lobby (near building 36 and the play ground) of the
Stata Center at MIT (32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA). Please check in
by 8:50 am, as we will car pool to the factory. Please bring some cash
(about $3-$5 per person) to help your driver out with gas.
If you
have a car and are willing to drive, please let us know!
Join us at Da/Pro Rubber to experience the wonderful world of rubber! Learn the difference between compression rubber molding and transfer rubber molding, what types of materials work best, and how these factors affect tooling cost. Whether you need conductive rubber gaskets or rubber over molding, Da/Pro can do it and has been doing it for 50 years! We’ll be touring their 30,000 square foot facility in Newburyport, MA, which specializes in hot stamping, insert molding and sub-assembly.
Logistics
We’ll
meet at the west lobby (near building 36 and the play ground) of the
Stata Center at MIT (32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA). Please check in
by 8:50 am, as we will car pool to the factory. Please bring some cash
(about $3-$5 per person) to help your driver out with gas.
If you
have a car and are willing to drive, please let us know!