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Replacement casters for many industrial applications including dollies, gantries, power drawn equipment, utility carts, bins and hoppers, industrial ovens, roof maintenance equipment, lift trucks, production racks, assembly line wheels and rollers, warehouse trucks, maintenance stands, aircraft crew stairs, portable work platforms, corrugated steel box trucks, automotive facilities, conveyer systems, captive turntables and more.

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Caster Concepts Inc. | The Machine Center | Reaction Industries | Fabricating Concepts | CasterShoX, LLC | Triple E, LLC


Precision Machining
  • Turning
    • 9 CNC lathes with ability to turn up to 22"
      • Daewoo 12 L-B
      • Daewoo 250
      • Daewoo 250 MS (live tooling and bar feeding)
      • Daewoo 8S
      • Daewoo 200C
      • Haas SL 20 (bar feeding)
      • Haas SL 20 (30hp and 5,000 rpms)
      • Mazak QT 10
      • Murata MR12
    • 2 CNC twin spindle machine for high production machining
      • Daewoo 200 2SP
      • Daewoo 250 2SP
    • 3 engine lathes for short run prototype and shafts up to 100"
    • Off line programming with Gibbs Cam software
  • Automatic Screw Machines
    • Acme 2 5/8"
    • Acme 2"
    • Acme 1 5/8" (2)
    • Acme 1"
    • Acme 3/4"
    • Acme 9/16" (2)
  • Milling
    • 4 CNC mills for short run or production milling
      • Daewoo Mynx 500
      • Haas VF-5 (4th axis)
      • Haas VF-2 (4th axis)
      • Haas VF-1 (4th axis)
      • Haas TM-1 (4th axis)
    • 1 DMV 400 turn table mill for high production milling/drilling
    • 6 knee mills for tool room work
    • Off line programming with Gibbs Cam software
  • Surface Griding
    • Chevalier 6X18 table
    • Splitback 6X18 table
  • ID Grinding up to 8
  • OD Grinding up to 10"
  • Rotary Grinding
  • Centerless Grinding
  • Surface Grinding 18"X72"
  • Broaching
    • 24" (2)
    • 48" (3)
    • 72"
  • Drilling
    • Solberga 3 HP power feed heavy duty drill Press
  • Boring Mill-Devileg
Surface Cleaning/Preparation
  • Bronco 6.5 cu ft blaster
  • Bronco 3.5 cu ft blaster
  • Hot parts washing
Fabricating
  • Laser Cutting
    • 2-Amada FO3015NT laser with 5X10 shuttle table, continuous 4000 watt cutting, Metamation software driven
      • Steel to 1.125"
      • Aluminum to 0.375"
      • Stainless to 0.5"
      • Call for other cutting capabilities
  • Forming
    • Amada 240 ton brake press
    • 8 axis back gauging
    • 14 foot bed
    • Short or long run capabilities
  • Welding
    • 4 Lincoln PowerWave Pulse welders (Mig)
    • 1 Lincoln Precision Tig 375
    • 1 multiple cell Fanuc 100i Robot powered by a Lincoln PowerWave welder
  • Cutting
    • Amada 350W automatic band saw
Polyurethane Processing
  • Meter mixing capabilities for MDI and TDI material
  • Standard durometer of 70A/85A/95A/70D
  • Ability to pour varying durometers to meet specifications
  • Bonding expertise of polyurethane to metal
  • Batch capabilities for a variety of materials and for R&D
  • Special and Custom mold designs
Engineering and Product Development
  • Four Degreed Mechanical Engineers
  • One Degreed Polymer Materials Engineer
  • Full time SolidWorks/CAD technician.
  • SolidWorks platform
  • AutoCAD capabilities
  • Gauging and fixturing capabilities from design to development
Tool Room Capabilities
  • Broach machine building
    • Broach fixturing
    • Automation Integration
  • Broach cutter development and manufacture
  • Prototype development and build
Inspection and Quality Control
  • CMM-Sheffield RS50 Cordax DDC with Open DIIMS software
  • Comparator
  • Profilometer
  • ISO 9001-2000 certified
  • Rockwell hardness testing
  • Full SPC documentation on production runs
Testing
  • Wheel endurance and fatigue analysis on drum testing machine with 24/7 monitoring using multiple sensor feedbacks
  • Bond and peel testing and qualification using custom designed, 20,000lb max, pull testing machine.
  • Dynamic and static performance evaluation of shock absorption wheel products.




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Family of Companies:
Reaction Industries, LLC
The Machine Center
Fabricating Concepts, LLC
Triple E Manufacturing

Caster Concepts, located in Albion, manufactures industrial, heavy duty casters and polyurethane wheels
Caster Concepts, located in Albion, manufactures industrial, heavy duty casters and polyurethane wheels