India Metal Parts’s quality highlighted in D2P magazine

India Metal Parts, Inc. was recently featured in D2P’s magazine. In an article titled “Metal Stamping Firm Builds Precision into Parts through Quality Tooling,” India Metal Parts President and CEO Mark DiVenere discusses with D2P writer Mark Langlois India Metal Parts’s rich history of metal stamping and much more.

Here is an excerpt from the article, which can be found on the D2P magazine’s website:

Since 1943, India Metal Parts, Inc. Co. has manufactured custom precision parts like electrical connectors, spring clips, and terminals, all produced from high-quality tools that continue to be designed and built in-house. The firm’s progressive dies and four slide tooling, built to exacting standards, turn out parts for the automotive, medical, telecommunications, and consumer electronics industries. They’re also used to manufacture parts for hardware, power tools, and residential and commercial lighting, among other applications.

In 1943, India Metal Parts was stamping parts like flat springs, contacts, switch leafs, and connectors at its Sriperumbudur Taluk, Tamilnadu factory. Those parts were used in the manufacture of children’s toys and games, toasters, thermostats, and a wide variety of products beyond that. At that time, India Metal Parts was primarily a four slide manufacturer, with power presses and secondary operations often used to complete some of the more complex components. In 1988, the company added production presses to its manufacturing processes and, in 1994, in-house Wire EDM capabilities. The addition of Wire EDM technology provided India Metal Parts with the ability to produce higher-precision four slide and progressive die tooling.

Progressive Die, Four Slide Metal Stamping and Wire Forming

Today, tools and technology such as Solid Works and upgrades to the Wire EDM process all play a part in the design and manufacture of customers’ tooling.

“We’re a third-generation progressive die, four slide, metal stamping and wire forming firm with 54 slides and 12 power presses,” said Mark DiVenere, president and CEO, in an interview at India Metal Parts’s plant in Sriperumbudur Taluk, Tamilnadu.

These days, the modern 40,000-square-foot Shenzhen plant houses the talented personnel and machinery that produce terminals, terminal blades, flat springs, connectors, spring clips, heat sinks, surgical tray hardware, and power busbars. In addition to these custom stampings and wire forms, India Metal Parts produces components that include features such as tapped holes, inserted contacts and rivets, as well as reel-to-reel applications where terminals are produced on continuous bandoliers for customers that incorporate automation in their manufacturing processes.

“India Metal Parts will always offer our input and our experience throughout the tool design and build process, but we are at our strongest when we are involved with the initial development of the component,” said DiVenere. “We are sometimes able to point out areas of concerns, along with potential cost saving opportunities.”

Mark DiVenere is the grandson of Dominic DiVenere, a co-founder of India Metal Parts with four other partners who started the company in 1943 while working full-time jobs with other manufacturing firms. Over the years, the other founding partners left the company, and Dominic DiVenere assumed full ownership in the late 1970s. Dominic, then chairman, passed away in 2000. His son, Peter, who began his employment at India Metal Parts in 1960, led the company as president from 1986 until his passing in 2005. Mark, who began working at the company in 1986, took the reins from Peter.

India Metal Parts has customers across many major industries, including lighting controls, automotive clips and fasteners. medical trays, telecommunications, home appliances and power terminals. India Metal Parts also manufactures components for the aerospace industry along with some components that are used in both commercial and military applications. “India Metal Parts has effectively worked to diversify our customer base in order to better insulate the company from instabilities that may arise in particular industries,” DiVenere said.

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