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Southern California Die Casting Companies
Not to many years ago, there were over 70 die casting companies in the Southern California area. In 2010, I posted a list of
When I posted the list, (Thursday, December 30th, 2010), there were 26 die casting companies remaining in Southern California. Two (2) years later, five (5) more die casting companies have closed or were taken over. Now, as of December 27, 2012, there are 21 die casting companies remaining in Southern California.
Here is the 2012 Southern California Die Casting Company List:
- Alcastco Die Casting Company
- Alloy Die Casting Company
- Aluminum Die Casting Company
- Ambritt Die Casting Company
- American Die Casting Company
- Arrow Die Casting Company
- Art Mold Die Casting Company
- Bucy Die Casting Company
- California Die Casting Company
- Cast Engineered Products Company
- Cast-Rite Die Casting Company
- Cox Die Casting Company
- Die Cast of America Company
- Dynacast Company
- Hyatt Die Casting Company
- International Die Casting Company
- Kenwalt Die Casting Company
- Kinetic Die Casting Company
- Pacific Die Casting Company
- Pioneer Die Casting Company
- Rangers Die Casting Company
Kinetic Die Casting Company is doing very well. A few other of these die casting companies are doing well, but some of these companies are nearly out of business.
If you are a buyer of die casting parts in Southern California, consider this:
- If the die casting parts you are buying are “cheap” or more expensive everywhere else you look, your die casting supplier is hurting and may go out of business.
- If your die casting supplier does go out of business, how do you get your die casting tooling?
Kinetic Die Casting Company:
The good news for you and our Kinetic Die Casting Company customers, is that we finished the 2012 year very strong.
We have a full work backlog for January 2013 and we look forward to obtaining greater goals in future years.
You should consider moving your die casting part requirements to Kinetic Die Casting Company if you are unsure of your present die casting parts supplier.
Our Motto:
Kinetic Die Casting is an aluminum and zinc die casting company. If you would like to know more information, please call us or visit our website:
Kinetic Die Casting Company
https://www.kineticdiecasting.com
(800) 524-8083
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Los Angeles Die Casting Companies
The need for a Los Angeles Die Casting Company has dwindled significantly. Los Angeles area had 78 die casting companies in 1960’s. Currently there are only about 26 die casting companies remaining in southern California. In the last 10 years, more than a dozen LA Die Casting Companies have closed. These companies either sold or closed due to financial problems.
The list includes:
1. Die Cast Manufacturing Company, Bloomington, CA
2. Modern Die Casting Company, Paramount California.
3. Lansco Die Casting Company, City of Industry, CA
4. Pomona Die Casting Company, Pomona California.
5. C&D Die Casting Company, Chatsworth, California.
6. Chapman Die Casting Company, City of Industry California.
7. Spencer Die Casting Company, Vernon, CA
8. Coast Die Casting Company, Gardena, CA
9. Compu Die Casting Company Compton California.
10. Universal Die Casting Company, Los Angeles, CA
11. Del Mar Die Casting Company, Gardena, CA
12. Los Angeles Die Casting Company, Commerce California.
13. Primcast, Riverside, CA.
14. Royal Diecasting Company, Burbank, CA
The good news for you is that Kinetic Die Casting Company is growing stronger financially and with greater capacity. 2010 was the best year for us in the last 10 years. Our customers receive the best quality and fastest delivery 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 or fax 818-982-0877. We produce die casting tooling for aluminum die casting or zinc die casting parts for several industries.
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Die Casting Companies Remaining in 2010
Not to many years ago, there were over 70 die casting companies in the southern California area. Now, there are only 26 die casting companies remaining in southern California. Here is that list:
- Alcastco
- Alloy Die Casting Company
- Aluminum Die Casting Company
- Ambritt Die Casting Company
- American Die Casting Company
- AQ Die Casting Company
- Arrow Die Casting Company
- Artmold Die Casting Company
- Bucy Die Casting Company
- California Die Casting Company
- Cast Engineered Products Company
- Cast-Rite Die Casting Company
- Commercial Die Casting Company
- Cox Die Casting Company
- Die Cast of America Company
- Drumheller Industries
- Dynacast Company
- Hyatt Die Casting Company
- International Die Casting Company
- Jeff Courts Company
- Kenwalt Die Casting Company
- Kim Lighting Die Casting Company
- Kinetic Die Casting Company
- Pacific Die Casting Company
- Pioneer Die Casting Company
- Rangers Die Casting Company
Kinetic Die Casting Company is doing very well. A few other of these die casting companies are doing well but many of these companies are nearly out of business. Two “die casting companies” on this list are down to a “one man operation” while a some others only have a few employees that are called in to work when a new purchase order arrives. A few of these companies are barely making the monthly payroll and utilities expenses. In fact, one of these companies will produce parts in exchange for metal, because they are COD with their metal supplier and they do not have the cash to buy materials to supply their other customers with parts.
If you are a buyer of die casting parts, consider this:
- If the die cast parts you are buying are more expensive everywhere else you look, your die casting supplier is hurting and may go out of business.
- If your die casting supplier does go out of business, how do you get your die cast tooling?
Kinetic Die Casting Company:
The good news for Kinetic Die Casting Company customers is that we finished the 2010 year very strong.
We have a full work backlog for January 2011 and we look forward to obtaining greater goals in future years.
You should consider moving your die casting part requirements to Kinetic Die Casting Company if you are unsure of your present die casting parts supplier.
Kinetic Die Casting is a aluminum and zinc die casting company. If you would like to know more information, please visit our website:Kinetic Die Casting Company
Why Did These California Die Casting Companies Close
I was thinking of my recent discovery of the closure of Die Cast Manufacturing Company in Bloomington California. The other casualties in the California die casting industry came to my mind:
- Die Cast Manufacturing Company, Bloomington California.
- Modern Die Casting Company, Paramount California.
- Lansco Die Casting Company, City of Industry California.
- Pomona Die Casting Company, Pomona California.
- C&D Die Casting Company, Chatsworth California.
- Chapman Die Casting Company, City of Industry California.
- Spencer Die Casting Company, Vernon California.
- Coast Die Casting Company, Gardena California.
- Compu Die Casting Company Compton California.
- Universal Die Casting Company, Los Angeles California.
- Del Mar Die Casting Company, Gardena California.
- Los Angeles Die Casting Company, Commerce California.
These companies either closed or were sold to competitors. My company, Kinetic Die Casting Company, purchased two die casting companies from the above list. Why did the companies that closed, close? That question comes to my mind frequently. These companies are all recent casualties, 10 years or less. There is a much longer list of closed die casting companies from over the last 30 years.
Some of my remaining competitors are still doing poorly. Three or four of these remaining California Die Casting companies are actively trying to sell their operations before they have to close. The ones that I cannot make an agreement with, I hope will be purchased by another competitor, or I hope they can hang in there until California can get “economic recovery”. Good luck to all of us California Manufacturers.
2010 Best Year in Last 10 Years
Kinetic Die Casting Company is doing very well. We are ending the best year we have had in over the last 10 years. We are starting 2011 with a full backlog. Our delivery and quality records with our customers are the best they have ever been. We are financially stable and we are growing rapidly. Thank you for reading our blog.
Kinetic Die Casting manufactures aluminum die castings creating aluminum die casting boxes, aluminum handle hardware, and aerospace die casting. If you would like to get a quote, please visit our website: Kinetic Die Casting Company
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Manufacturing Returning From China to California
CP Lab Safety was worried about escalating product costs. So it decided to move its manufacturing overseas — to California.
After more than seven years of using a contract manufacturer in China’s Guangdong province, the Novato company this spring shifted production of its Eco Funnel and some 80 other products in its portfolio to Wright Engineered Plastics in Santa Rosa.
It was a no-brainer for CP Lab Safety CEO Kelly Farhangi: “In the U.S., you can manufacture on a cost comparable to China.”
Companies are “reshoring” manufacturing — even to California and the Bay Area — for reasons that vary as widely as the types of goods returning to American factory floors.
Four Northern California companies in the past five months have reshored products from China to Wright Engineered Plastics, said President and CEO Barbara Roberts. Their reasons range from costs to vicinity to market and from quality to finance.
Chinese manufacturers, for example, won’t ship until a product is completely paid for, Roberts said, and then transportation could add another 30 days or more.
“That’s a double-whammy,” she said.
This is not your granddaddy’s smoke-belching, middle-class-securing manufacturing, but domestic manufacturing advocates say it represents an opportunity for jobs in a down economy.
“At the end of the day, everything else being equal, it’s always best to manufacture near your markets,” said Ken DeWoskin, a senior adviser at Deloitte in China. “But everything being equal has a lot of questions.”
Those swirl around a host of global economic factors like labor quality, cost and overall productivity as well as an unfolding regionalism — shaped by free-trade agreements and common currencies — that puts more emphasis on the proximity of supply chains.
“With the U.S., Mexico, into Central America and South America, you can integrate supply chains even more and at the expense of China-U.S. trade,” DeWoskin said.
Even then, whether it makes sense to reshore manufacturing depends on the product, he said. The supply chain for consumer electronics, for example, is well established in China.
It may make sense, however, to get components from other markets and site final assembly closer to a company’s market, DeWoskin said.
That’s precisely what Tesla Motors looked at when the San Carlos electric car maker opted to ship assembly of its battery packs from a pilot plant in Thailand to California. Those nearly 7,000 lithium-ion cells continue to be made in Japan and Korea, but it didn’t make sense for the assembled packs to sit on a ship for 10 to 15 days, said Diarmuid O’Connell, Tesla’s vice president of business development.
“Is it more expensive in some respects — in real estate and labor — to assemble battery packs in the U.S. compared to some other overseas markets? Yes,” O’Connell said.
But moving assembly close to Tesla’s R&D operations “makes a lot of sense,” O’Connell said, as the company continues to develop and make changes in its technology.
That plays into the thinking of much smaller companies, like Farhangi’s CP Lab Safety, as well. Although it continues to make the molds for its products in China, where Farhangi said there are significant engineering cost savings, the company can make production changes quickly by using a domestic manufacturer.
Whether more companies reshore manufacturing in California — as opposed to another state, Mexico or South America — is largely in the hands of policy makers, said Gino DeCaro of the California Manufacturers & Technology Association.
“California needs to show a deep understanding of manufacturing. We need an analysis of what policies will do to the manufacturing community in the state,” DeCaro said. “That would be a big signal to companies that have looked to California in the past and seen uncertainty.”
Why manufacture in China?
* Shipping costs are at a three- to four-year low.
* Integration of supply chain, especially for products like consumer electronics.
* Labor costs remain cheaper than in the United States.
Why manufacture in the Americas?
* Closer to American markets.
* Integration of supply chain, potentially for things like auto assembly.
* Ease of making changes to orders.
* Time. Products don’t sit on boats for weeks or months.
* Cash use. Chinese manufacturers can require full payment before shipment.
* Strength of currency. As the dollar weakens, the underlying cost advantage of China may dissipate.
Email Ron Leuty at rleuty@bizjournals.com / (415) 288-4939
Kinetic Die Casting manufactures die cast parts for their customers. If you would like to know more about what is die casting or if you would like a quote, please visit our website:Kinetic Die Casting Company
