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principals guide our assembly busi- ness,” Fritz says. “The progressive dies we produce here require very close tol- erances, so the machining work we did with those fell right in line with close- tolerance work required for precision contract machining. And, tooling pro- duction is a low-volume business, and what we machine to produce that tool- ing also is low volume, so that gave us expertise in machining of low-volume production parts.”
Cleanroom Capability Brings Business
It was the precision machining of medical parts that led directly to Reich Tool’s expansion into higher-level assemblies and the formation of Trinity Biomedical, as the medical machining customers began asking Reich Tool to produce intricate assemblies by adding nonmetal components or performing all-metal assemblies, according to Fritz.
To meet strict cleanliness standards demanded by medical customers for
their assemblies, in 2008 Reich Tool built a 2500-sq.-ft. Class 10,000 clean- room to house the newly formed Trinity Biomedical. Also added: an ultrasonic wash line, primarily for cleaning stain- less-steel and titanium parts.
“Then we just kept growing the busi- ness,” says Fritz.
Today, Trinity Biomedical mainly contracts manufacturing and assembly of products to support the medical-
Reich Tool, with its stable of high-tech equipment and expertise in die build and repair, has leveraged all of it to success- fully build its precision contract-machin- ing business, producing parts such as these for aerospace, medical and other customers.
device industry. These include respi- ration and ventilation products, a com- bination of metallic and plastic parts assembled into chest tubes and similar items, as well as orthopedic-related assemblies used in surgical applica- tions. The company also performs con- tract washing for local stampers that require specific particulate levels on their components. In addition, the cleanroom houses laser-marking and packaging capability. Should expansion be necessary, Reich Tool’s grinding room is set up with pressure and ven- tilation control infrastructure for sim- plified conversion into a cleanroom, with a new grinding room built to maintain current capabilities.
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