METAL MECHANICS:
DECADES OF EXPERIENCE
IN BUILDING HYDRAULIC PRESSES

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Metal Mechanics was established in 1951 as a machining and fabrication shop in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Soon after that, we began building special machines that were urgently needed by Kalamazoo’s many factories. Our ability to build these machines led to the creation of our first press, built in 1971 for a local die caster.

We focus our seven decades of experience and skill solely on hydraulic presses. Hydraulic presses are useful in a variety of industries because they can exert a tremendous amount of force with exact precision. They work on the principle of Pascal's Law, which states that pressure exerted on a fluid is transmitted evenly throughout it. This constant pressure applies a lot of force in a smooth, steady motion.

We manufacture hydraulic presses for several industries, but we’ve become the go-to company for metal trimming presses, especially in the die-cast and metal-casting industries. We’ve built trimming presses for more than 290 die-casting companies.

And that number continues to grow.

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Our Automated Rollover-Bed Trim Presses Performs Everything in One Move

Part-Load, unload, trim, and scrap-dump in one smooth motion

With a focus on producing lean and green press systems, we added automated trim presses to our capabilities. These integrate a robot load station, trim station, part unload mechanism, and scrap dump station into one modular unit. As the press comes down to cut the metal in the trim station, a previously trimmed part is unloaded, a new casting is loaded, and the scrap is dumped. It does this for each cycle, greatly increasing production.

We Built A Larger Facility to Make Even Larger Hydraulic Presses

MM didn’t just want to keep up with that growth; we wanted to get ahead of it. So, in 2017, after more than seven decades in business, we opened a 30,000-square-foot hydraulic press manufacturing facility. With this new facility, MM can manufacture hydraulic presses that weigh over 80,000 pounds, are up to 30 feet tall, and can generate over 200 tons of force. The hydraulic presses don’t have to be that big, but they can be.

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You May Not Need a New Press

In addition to making custom hydraulic presses, we remanufacture and rebuild existing presses. Give us a call or fill out the form below, and we’ll explain your options to you.

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METAL MECHANICS:DECADES OF EXPERIENCEIN BUILDING HYDRAULIC PRESSES

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