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21% Sales Increase in 2010, Sales Up Overseas

During CWM’s annual “Thank You” luncheon for all employees and suppliers, as well as company retirees and other guests, President Eric Treiber presented a summary of CWM’s accomplishments over the last year— including the remarkable 2010 sales increase of 21% over 2009. Also noted were

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NADCA 2011 Die Cast Design Award to CWM

The design engineering teams from CWM and Cast Products collaborated on a new die cast product, a conversion from plastic to zinc. The results were an innovative product design and an award from the North American Die Casting Association for the design’s ingenuity, cost savings

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CWM Marks 70th Year of OEM Services Expansion

Chicago White Metal Casting was founded in 1937 in a loft building in the center of Chicago by Walter G. Treiber, Sr. and Samuel Gullo. As a custom die caster of recyclable alloys, the company operates today under 2nd & 3rd-generation Treiber family management from

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Primer on Miniature Die Casting Released

Primer on Miniature Die Casting Released

Special CWM Engineering Bulletin No. 76 provides OEMs with a condensed overview on how Miniature Zn & ZA-8 high-speed die casting process is the most cost-effective technology for small, complex structural parts. This bulletin outlines the essential facts design engineers and purchasers should know about today’s

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Spring 2011, Vol. 7, No. 1

Spring 2011, Vol. 7, No. 1

QA Dept. Installs Sheffield Pioneer 8.10.6 CMM Machine CNC Dept. Adds Kitamura Mycenter HX400iSII Workhorse  2011 CWM College Scholarship Fund Program Announced Eight New Employees Join the CWM Team Employee of the Year & 2011 Service Awards Presented  Click here to view the .PDF

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Sheffield Pioneer 8.10.6 CMM Unit

Sheffield Pioneer 8.10.6 CMM Unit to QA Dept.

CWM’s Quality Assurance Dept. recently installed a Sheffield Pioneer 8.10.6 CMM machine, paving the way to acquiring the latest in sophisticated inspection software technology— PC-DMIS Cad++. This advanced software integrates directly with 3D CAD modeling, allowing for inspection programming prior to the availability of the

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Magmasoft® Assures Critical Cosmetic Success

Magmasoft® Simulation Avoids Horror Story

Since CWM put the advanced Magmasoft software simulation system to work, its accurate thermal and metal-flow predictions prior to tooling design and prototyping have helped achieve first-piece production success with some especially challenging die cast part designs. A recent project was a particularly dramatic example

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NADCA Collaborative Engineering White Paper

NADCA Collaborative Engineering White Paper

This in-depth White Paper from the North American Die Casting Assn., offered by CWM, details how collaborative engineering between OEM engineers and custom die caster engineering can result in improved production efficiencies and reduced part costs. The case study method is used to discuss cost-saving

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New, More Accurate Digital Sensors: Fewer Rejects

To produce die cast parts to precise specifications, molten alloys must be metered and forced into a complex die cavity, at pressures up to 20,000 psi, in about a second. During that second, in an environment of vibration, high heat, fine dust and lubrication mist,

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