Cloeren invests in making wider dies. (In Brief).Cloeren Incorporated of Orange, Texas, is investing $5 million to up its manufacturing capacity for extrusion dies. It's buying three new five-axis CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) See numerical control. CNC - Collaborative Networked Communication machining centers, including one with a capacity of 15 meters or 590 in. "This new machining center provides Cloeren with the largest in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. width capacity in the global extrusion-die market," says president Peter Cloeren, Jr. "We have seen a trend toward wider dies, particularly for cast film. We have delivered multiple dies more than 5 meters wide and one 6-meter die over the past 12 months. We have had inquiries for dies up to 7.5 meters wide." A new dual spindle spindle: see spinning. A rotating shaft in a disk drive. In a fixed disk, the platters are attached to the spindle. In a removable disk, the spindle remains in the drive. Laptops use spindle designations to indicate the number of built-in drives. machine will address growing demand for internally deckled dies. "It gives us the capacity to manufacture internal deckle deckle - /dek'l/ (From "dec-" and "nibble"; the original spelling seems to have been "decle") Two nickles; 10 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit wide RAM but 10-bit wide ROM. blades to unprecedented accuracy," says Cloeren. |
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