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Leading Auto Part Manufacturer Wins International Die Casting Award-壓鑄展-鑄造展-2014第十五屆廣州國際壓鑄、鑄造及工業爐展覽會-中國最受關注的壓鑄鑄造展會-巨浪展覽-The 15th Guanzhou Die-casting,Foundry&Industry Furnace Exhibition
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For the second time in its 84-year history, diecasting specialists JVM
Castings has been commended in this year’s International Die Casting Awards,
sponsored by the North American Die Casters Association (NADCA).
The
annual Die Casting Design Competition showcases cutting-edge developments by
many of the industry’s pre-eminent companies.
This year’s awards were in
Kentucky (USA), where JVM’s design team struck gold in the structural aluminium
casting category.
The team was awarded for its pioneering B Pillar
castings, a heat treated body chassis part manufactured in an aluminium alloy
which gives greater ductility and mechanical properties than conventional high
pressure aluminium alloys, and forms one in a series of castings manufactured by
JVM for the new Jaguar F Type.
The company has been making parts for
Jaguar Land Rover for over 50 years, and initially began producing B Pillar
structural aluminium die cast body parts for Jaguar’s popular XK model using a
combination of B Post and swan neck castings – a design which became the
template used by other OEM’s in their own designs.
Wayne Murcott, joint
managing director at JVM, said: “When Jaguar announced plans to build its F Type
model in 2010, our design team was tasked with redesigning the B Pillar
structure as one single casting that would be both mass efficient and avoid the
need for sub-assembly.
“The challenge facing our designers was to create
a feed and runner system that would successfully make two different castings at
the same time. The team spent many hours running, reviewing and enhancing design
simulations using Magmasoft computers, and our finalised design reduced the
total assembly weight by more than 50%.
“This new lean design meant the F
Type reduced its carbon footprint, as well as eliminating the cost and weight of
seven steel pressings, as well as the cost of assembly. Rather than two dies and
seven stamping tools, our new B Pillar only requires one die set.
“As the
largest aluminium pressure die casting company in the UK, we’re constantly
looking for ways to innovate in engineering and improve our products to ensure
our market remains competitive, so it means a great deal to be recognised by
NADCA, the international voice of the die casting industry.”
NADCA
represents the voice of the die casting industry, in an annual market worth more
than $15 billion. NADCA is committed to promoting industry awareness and growth
in the global market for die castings, and the association is comprised of
members located throughout the world.
壓鑄展-鑄造展-2014第十五屆廣州國際壓鑄、鑄造及工業爐展覽會-中國最受關注的壓鑄鑄造展會-巨浪展覽-The 15th Guanzhou Die-casting,Foundry&Industry
Furnace Exhibition
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