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| Sedwall Manufacturing Company
in St. Charles, Illinois continues to grow and develop
its emphasis on providing wide ranging services to can
makers. Since we moved into our new 34,000 sq. ft. facility
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1997 we have expanded our capacities in surface and cylindrical
grinding, CNC jig grinding, wire EDM and vertical machining.
These increased capacities have opened up doors for us
in providing tooling for can manufacturers in areas such
as easy open end, rectangular and embossing tooling. This
has permitted us to become a one stop shop for many producers
in the container industry. |
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| Can Industry Tooling |
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| Double Die |
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Although we are known best
for our unsurpassed capacity and innovation in beader
and curler tooling, our full service shop also provides
complete double dies, spare tooling, emergency services,
wire EDM capacity and much more to our customers. Our
truly diverse capabilities stand ready to fulfill any
tool making need. Customers return to Sedwall knowing
that we exceed expectations on precision conversion tooling,
aerosol tooling, curler tooling, beader tooling and much
more. |
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| Large Diameter Precision Grinding: |
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| Sedwall manufactures tooling
for many industries that utilize our large capacity grinders.
Crush grinding techniques are used to grind tooling that
rims all the coins at the U.S. mints in Denver and Philadelphia.
Sedwall has been selected as a preferred provider of
this tooling based on our expertise. Sedwall can grind
tool steel rings up to 5 feet in diameter to exacting
tolerances and forms. Increased performance and tool
life occurs when our accurately ground rings are compared
to others. |
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| Beader Tooling: |
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| Nobody makes beader tooling like Sedwall. We produce
tooling for American and European equipment for most
can manufacturers. We use crush grinding technology that
assures repeatability from tool to tool even if they
are bought years apart. Our wheels cut cooler and more
aggressively than a dressed wheel and allow us to use
more horsepower without damaging the material structure.
Geometrically, tooling produced by Sedwall is more square,
more flat and more ready to perform to your expectations.
We remain current on tool coatings to provide our customers
with options that can optimize performance. |
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| Beading Rail & Roll |
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Bead Rolls
3 Different Coatings |
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| Curler
Tooling: |
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| Sedwall has the best methods
and machinery available to produce quality curler tooling.
We have tooled up three large vertical spindle grinders
to manufacture curler and beader tooling. We have 7-1/2
horsepower spindles that can efficiently remove stock.
These spindles drive 14 inch (355 mm) diameter grinding
wheels in which we crush the proper groove configuration.
We set up the rings or segments for you just as they
will sit in your curler. Because of this combination
of strength, horsepower, and rigidity, forms are able
to be ground from a solid configuration. This guarantees
a precise profile in the parts we supply to you and a
reliable, repeatable groove in your tooling. Our prices
remain competitive because we can grind at such impressive
rates without facing the problem of introducing excessive
heat into the material. Every curl ring and segment set
is inspected during the manufacturing process and a final
time on our Coordinate Measuring Machine prior to shipment.
Additionally, we make a metal pour of each and every
groove and store those pours in a library to have a record
of what we produced. This is done for both new and reworked
curler tooling. |
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| Pail and Drum Tooling: |
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Sedwall provides tooling
for 55 gallon drums all the way down to 5 gallon pails
as well as for decorative cans for the popcorn and gift
industry. Some of the tooling we have provided for manufacturers
of drums are:
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Complete blanking and forming dies for lids or ends
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Chucking rings
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Seaming rolls and rings
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Flanging and curling rings
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Welder Z-bars
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Carando tooling
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Reconditioning of existing dies
All tooling is 100% ground with guaranteed concentricity
for long life and wear and optimum performance.
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| 3 Out Blanking Die |
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| 3 Out Blanking Die |
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| CNC Jig Grinding: |
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| We have an active department
with (2) Moore CNC Jig Grinders. Our lead man for this
department has over 20 years experience and repeat business
is becoming the norm for this department as the quality
of our work is earning a commendable reputation. We are
handling select embossing tooling, tab tooling, rectangular
tooling and many other items that suit this application
quite well. Some recent tooling we have manufactured
in the area of full panel easy open aluminum ends are
punch and slit wipedowns (new and reworks), upper and
lower caps and lance dies. |
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| Rectangular work |
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| Precision Machining capabilities: |
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· CNC/conventional
jig grinding
· CNC milling and turning
· Precision ID/OD grinding
· Large diameter precision grinding (60 in.)
· Intricate contour and form grinding
· Carbide tooling
· Wire EDM
(Click on any of the small pictures for
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Aluminum Connecting
Rod
for Crankshaft |
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Aluminum Connecting
Rod
End View |
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