typically in plastics, however, and Milacron is typically selling metalworking services, this has not been an issue. “We do not compete with our customers,” Vanzant said. For example, he noted, “We do not do molds.”
Optimizing Manufacturing Capacity Milacron has two large factories that make a variety of small and large parts required to make plastics machinery. There’s a 500,000-ft ² (46,500-m²) facil- ity in Batavia, OH, as well as a 190,730- ft² (17,738-m²) facility about 15 miles away in Mount Orab, where the majority of contract manufacturing work is per- formed. “The equipment we have in our facility is a wide range, from small parts to large parts, geared to make the parts required for extrusion, blow mold- ing and injection molding machinery,” Kinzie said.
Milacron offers precision CNC mill- ing, grinding, turning and hard-facing operations, as well as a number of sec- ondary and finishing operations, such as whirling, heat treating, deburring, coating, freezing, testing and more. At Mount Orab, the facility consists of five connecting buildings. Each build- ing has a different type of operation. One makes small parts you can pick up with your hand. Two plants make large parts that are moved by crane or with a forklift. A fourth building does heat- treating and other specialty processes. The fifth does long and skinny, shaft- type work, which is where the com- pany makes its screws for the injection business. Among its many machining capabilities, which are listed in detail on the company Web site, Milacron also does whirling, a specialty opera- tion. The whirling machines (made by Weingärtner in Austria) have a ring with a series of different types of cutters. As the ring spins, it travels down the shaft.
The process is somewhat similar to turning, except instead of one cutter working at a time, there are maybe six–eight cut- ters working at a time. “It removes a considerable amount of stock,” Kinzie said.
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