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NADCA 2025-2026 Directory
ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITY in North American Die Casters Association Chapter 30 and American Foundry Society California are the two largest metal casting chapters in California and are combining their biennial 100-page publication for 2025-2026 Directory. Your advertisement will be on the desk of over 400 metal casting companies! The directory release date is January 2025.
To NADCA (North American Die Casters Association) and AFS (American Foundry Society) Supporters:
The early-bird pricing deadline to advertise in the AFS/NADCA Directory is this Thursday, October 31, 2024 (10/31/24).
SAVE 50% on Advertising in the directory: CLICK HERE https://californiametalscoalition.formstack.com/forms/directory to secure your ad space. Purchase before November 1st and receive 50% off!
ADVERTISE: California’s two largest metal casting chapters, AFS California and NADCA Chapter 30, are once again coming together to publish the industry directory. This 100+ page book reaches over 500 desks in California alone! NADCA Chapter 30 reaches beyond California. The directory is distributed at all events for two years, as well as mailed to metal casters. Ad space is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Reserve your space today!
WEB BANNERS: Advertising in the directory is also the only way to get a banner on the websites of the two chapters:
American Foundry Society—California Chapter (Nor Cal + So Cal) https://www.afssocal.org/
NADCA Chapter 30—West Coast https://www.nadca30.org/
The 5.5” x 8.5” spiral bound publication includes a roster of chapter individuals, member companies, alloy data tables, advertisements, and more.
If you want more information on this ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITY in the 2025-2026 Directory, contact:
Laura Adams Hoppe
NADCA Chapter 30
2971 Warren Lane
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
916-933-3062
Permalink: https://www.kineticdiecasting.com/kdc/nadca-2025-2026-directory/
Cast-Rite Die Casting Company Closed
Another manufacturing company closure and equipment auction. Recently, CastRite Die Casting Company closed and had an equipment auction for the die casting and machining equipment they had left in the company. The address was Cast-Rite Corporation, 515 East Airline Way, Gardena, CA 90248.
We will miss Cast-Rite as a good die casting company competitor. Here are the die casting equipment auction details:
Die Casting
1000 Ton LK DCC1000 Cold Chamber die casting machine.
630 Ton LK Impress-U DCC 630U Cold Chamber die casting machine.
(2) 630 Ton LK DCC 630 U Cold Chamber die casting machine.
(2) 400 Ton LK ImpressU DCC400U Cold Chamber die casting machine.
160 Ton LK ImpressU DCC160 Cold Chamber die casting machine.
1300 Ton IDRA OL-1300DG Cold Chamber die casting machine.
225 Ton Birch Machinery Hot Chamber die casting machine.
400 Ton LK Avis-II DC400 Hot Chamber die casting machine.
400 Ton Birch Hot Chamber die casting machine.
Die Casting Support
(20) Hydraulic Trim Presses
Rayteq DC1000 & DC500 Crucible Furnaces
Pyro Systems 900ACF Crucible Furnace, New 2018
Die Cast support equipment – ladles, sprayers, robots, etc
Permalink: https://www.kineticdiecasting.com/kdc/cast-rite-die-casting-company-closed/
If you were a former Cast-Rite Die Casting Company customer and you need a new source for your die casting parts, please call us at
Kinetic Die Casting Company. Inc.
6918 Beck Avenue, North Hollywood,
California 91605, United States of America
E-mail sales@kineticdc.com
USA Toll Free: (800) 524-8083 Local: (818) 982-9200
To get prices for Die Casting Tooling Molds or Parts:
Die Casting Part Prices: (https://www.kineticdiecasting.com/replyform.html)
“The Parts We Make Today, We Ship Today”
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California List of Closed Die Casting Companies 2024
Recently, someone asked me to send them my list of closed Southern California die casting companies. This year, we lost another very good die casting company, Cast-Rite Corporation.
I have been reporting the decline in the number of die casting companies in Southern California for several years. I posted my latest list in 2016. These companies have either merged with another company, or left California or closed down completely.
Sorted alphabetically, here is my current list of the 45 competing California die casting companies that have closed since we founded in 1994.
List of closed die casting companies:
1 Alcastco Die Casting Company, Sun Valley
2 AQ Die Casting, Chatsworth
3 Arrow Die Casting Company, Los Angeles
4 Art Mold Die Casting Company, Sun Valley
5 Barron Die Casting Company, Irvine
6 Ben Phillips Nameplates, Los Angeles
7 Bucy Die Casting Company, Burbank
8 C&D Die Casting Company, Chatsworth
9 Cascade W.L. Chapman, City of Industry
10 Cast Engineering Products, Gardena
11 Cast-Rite Die Casting Company, Gardena
12 Century Die Casting Company, Long Beach
13 CEP Cast Engineered Products, Los Angeles
14 Chapman Die Casting Company, City of Industry
15 Coast Die Casting Company, Gardena
16 Commercial Die Casting Company, Vernon
17 Compu Die Casting Company, Compton
18 Cox Die Casting Company, Gardena
19 Crager Industries, Compton, CA
20 Del Mar Die Casting Company, Gardena
21 Die Cast Manufacturing Company, Bloomington
22 Die Cast Products, Los Angeles
23 Drumheller Die Casting Company, Sun Valley
24 El Monte Tool and Die Casting, El Monte
25 International Die Casting, Gardena
26 Interstate Die Casting Company, Anaheim
27 Kim Lighting, Ontario, CA
28 Lansco Die Casting Company, City of Industry
29 LJ Die Casting Company, Sun Valley, CA
30 Los Angeles Die Casting Company, City of Commerce
31 Modern Die Casting Company, Paramount
32 Modern Faucet Manufacturing, Los Angeles, CA
33 Orange County Die Casting Company, Santa Ana, CA
34 Peet Manufacturing Die Casting
35 Pioneer Die Casting Company, Los Angeles
36 Pomona Die Casting Company, Pomona
37 Primcast, Riverside
38 Price Pfister Corporation, Pacoima, CA
39 Rangers Die Casting Company, Lynwood, CA
40 Robinson Die Casting Company, Huntington Beach, CA
41 Royal Diecasting Company, Burbank
42 Spencer Die Casting Company, Vernon
43 Stephens Manufacturing Company, Cudahy, CA
44 Sunny Die Casting Company, Paramount, CA
45 Universal Die Casting Company, Los Angeles, CA
Please let me know if I missed anyone from this list of die casting company closures since 1994.
The good news for Kinetic Die Casting Company customers is that we are growing stronger financially and with greater capacity. Our customers receive the best quality die casting parts and fastest delivery of of parts of any die casting company.
Contact Kinetic Die Casting Company, we just north of Los Angeles in the city of North Hollywood, California. Call Kinetic Die Casting Company Inc. for your Aluminum part or Zinc part needs 818-982-9200 or sales@kineticdc.com. We produce die casting tooling for aluminum die casting or zinc die casting parts for several industries.
This year, we added new die casting equipment. We are growing while other companies are declining. Our customers like our pricing, our quality and our on time delivery. To all our customers, thank you for trusting Kinetic Die Casting Company, Inc.
Permalink: https://www.kineticdiecasting.com/kdc/california-list-of-closed-die-casting-companies-2024/
Harvil Die Casting Machine for Sale
I recently purchased new LK Die Casting Machines. I have two Harvill Die Casting machines that need to be removed to make room for my new equipment. One is a 450 ton harvil the other is a 600 ton harvil. I will using the the 400 ton this week and next week. The 600 ton needs repairs before it can be used to make die casting parts. These machine are not worth a lot of money but some die casters in California have a soft spot in their heart for the Harvil brand die casting machines.
A scrap guy offered to pay me $1,500 each to cut them up and take them out. If anyone wants these machines and is willing to match that $1,500 price. Contact me, these machines can be yours. The machines need to be removed by August 2, 2024.
Kinetic Die Casting Company
6918 Beck Avenue, North Hollywood, CA
818-982-9200
sales@kineticdc.com
https://www.kineticdiecasting.com/kdc/harvil-die-casting-machine-for-sale/
Ray Fish Electro Adapter My Obituary
I always found Ray to be very intelligent, and a shrewd business man. He would be 90 years old, if he were alive today. I met Ray Fish of AQ Die Casting/Electro Adaptor on 12/11/03 when my maintenance manager, Victor Ortega, gave me his name telling me that Ray had two Toshiba die casting machines for sale, a 350ton and a 400ton with ladlers prints and manuals. The machines did not work so Ray wanted $5,000 for both die casting machines. AQ Die Casting Electro-Adaptor (https://www.electro-adapter.com/)
In 09/15/12, Ray Fish contacted me to say that he was closing down AQ Die Casting but keeping Electro Adapter. Ray sent me several dies and tooling for several customers. Since then, Ray was on my cookie and almond roca list.
On 11/11/21, I received this email from Ray regarding my Christmas almond roca update. “Thank you for the thought I lost my sweetheart and best friend 2 weeks ago to the virus 69 years of bliss. God Bless her for being there for me as always. My holidays will be memories Be Safe & Be Well, Ray”
In 1969, Ray Fish founded AQ Die Casting/Electro Adapter. Ray was involved with die castings since the 1950s. He took over operations from Barron Die Casting in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
In 1979, ten years later, he moved operations to a 54,000 square foot facility in Chatsworth, California. The Chatsworth facility, completed in 1979, is devoted to the design, development, production and qualification of connector accessories.
Electro Adapter, Inc. manufactures and supplies connector accessories, conduit assemblies, and accessory banding systems for aerospace, military, marine, railroad, and industrial automation markets. It specializes in thin-wall aluminum and zinc castings. The company offers die-castings, bulkhead adapters, extenders, connector savers, protective covers, shorting cans, banding tools, and composites; and accessories for D-sub, micro-D, circular, and ARINC rectangular connectors. It also provides casting, machining, trimming, de-burring, plating, inspection, and metal finishing services for commercial and mil spec applications; and tool and mold design and fabrication, surface treatment, painting, and assembly services. The company is based in Chatsworth, California.
Ray Fredrick Fish Obituary (2022) – FUNERAL HOME – Crawford Lorenzen Mortuary – 8717 Tampa Ave Northridge, California published on Legacy.com by Crawford Lorenzen Mortuary – Northridge on Dec. 22, 2022. (https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/ray-fish-obituary?id=38449425) Comments left on the funeral home website: January 23, 2023 and September 14, 2023
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