Martinrea

Martinrea International Inc. is a Canadian auto parts manufacturer based in Vaughan, Ontario, with an Engineering and Program Management office in Troy, Michigan. It manufactures metal parts, assemblies and modules, as well as fluid management systems, for the automotive industry and other industrial sectors, and has operations in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe. The company reported over $1.4B USD in sales last year.

Martinrea was formed in April 2002, with the combination of Royal Laser Tech, and Rea International. Later 2002, Martinrea bought Pilot Industries Inc., a company based in Dexter, Michigan.^[2][3] In 2005, it purchased some assets of Oxford Automotive, in Corydon Indiana, a facility that became known as ICON Metalforming, LLC. It also purchased some assets off of a bankrupt Canadian supplier, Depco International, and renamed this facility Rollstar Metalforming. In December 2006, Martinrea purchased Budd Company from ThyssenKrupp and Fabco, which brought 15 facilities and an additional $800M in turnover to the group. In 2009, Martinrea added the bankrupt SKD Automotive group to its protfolio and integrated the work into its existing facilities in Canada, as well as bringing in a new facility in Jonesville, Michigan and another near Mexico City, Mexico. Along the way, Martinrea opened new facilities in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, Hermosillo, and Tilsonburg, Ontario. Due to the expiration of some contracts with customers due to low body-on-frame sport utility demand, Martinrea closed its Kitchener, Ontario facility in 2008, and later its Windsor, Ontario facility as well.

Its industrial group has also expanded to include 5 facilities, including the original MJ Manufacturing location in Mississauga, Ontario, as well as Steelmatic Wire in the US and Canada, and now MJ Manufacturing in Michigan, as well as Ramos Arizpe, Mexico

Recently Martinrea announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase the assets of Honsel AG, which brings aluminum casting experience in many fields. This will bring accretive revenue of almost $800M to the group. All told Martinrea should have a turnover of $2.4B with the combined entities.

Martinrea Fabco Hot Stampings, Inc.

This plant is in Detroit Michigan on the north side of Interstate 696. It was originally established as Milford Fabricating, a company that made automobile body prototypes.

The hot stamping process involves heating steel blanks in ovens and then, stamping the hot blanks in a stamping press. The stamped parts are held under tonnage until partially cooled. The temperature the blanks are heated to, the amount of time they are heated, the time it takes to get the blanks into the stamping die, and the time the parts are held under tonnage, are all key process parameters. Water circulates through the dies to cool the stampings.

MFHS Line 1 includes a gas fired tunnel oven followed by a stamping press made by the Indian company ISGEC. Robots remove blanks from a pallet and deposit them on a table. The walking beam raises the blanks off the table and moves them forward. The hydraulically actuated walking beam advances the parts thorugh the oven. At the press end of the oven, the walking beam lowers the parts onto a table. The table moves the blanks under the press. An unloader picks the parts off the table and holds them while the table retracts back under the oven. The unloader lowers the blanks into the lower die halves, retracts, and the blanks are stamped.

MFHS Line 2 includes an electric oven, a 500 ton Verson hydraulic press, two date stamper frames, a pallet rack, and three robots. In operation, one robot uses suction cups to remove blanks from a palletized stack. Each blank is moved to the date stamper and a date stamped into it. The blank is then placed on a table that centers it. The second robot picks the blank from the crowder table and places it into the oven. After the blank is heated the right amount, it is removed and placed in the press in the lower die. The press closes on the still orange blank and forms it. The press remains closed while cooling water flows through the die. After the press opens the third robot uses magnets to remove the part and drop it on a conveyor.

http://www.martinrea.com/Public/Detroit

References

External links

• Official website
• 43°46′39″N 79°32′45″W / 43.777476°N 79.545744°W / 43.777476; -79.545744Coordinates: 43°46′39″N 79°32′45″W / 43.777476°N 79.545744°W / 43.777476; -79.545744

Martinrea Fabco Hot Stamping is a Detroit Michigan based manufacturing location.