Innovative solutions. Design to production. From engineering and design to product development and manufacturing — MVC is a full-service supplier that can take on every stage of your project. Our people develop and use innovative processes to meet our customers’ fast-changing needs. We maintain industry leading quality ratings with an average ppm (parts per million) score of 15 ppm — well below the industry benchmark of 50 ppm. As a result, we’ve won numerous quality awards and maintain TS 16949 and ISO 14001 certifications.
CAD-based Tooling Design
- Advanced technologies
- Meeting customer tooling requirements
- Programmable 3-D CNC based machining and Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM)
Component Assembly
- Assemble large truck grilles to allow for direct shipment to final assembly plant and reduce transportation costs.
- Decorative and small component assembly operation.
- Assemble highly visible components such as body side moldings and lamp assemblies.
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Nicholasville, Kentucky
Chrome Plating
Chrome Plating on Plastic Surfaces (POP)
- Tanks are designed to accommodate many types of products, from small decorative trim parts to full-size truck grilles
- Auxiliary anode capability supports plating of deeply recessed product designs
- Plating line can accommodate Micro porous, Micro Crack, Bright and Satin Chrome, with auxiliary anodes
- Features high performance chemical filtration systems to ensure process stability
- Designed and built by ATOTECH
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Nicholasville, Kentucky
Hot Stamp and Pad Printing
- Single and multiple station systems
- Press side or stand-alone operations
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Newberry, South Carolina
Machining
- Features high speed CNC lathes (7) for precision “class A” finishing
- Incorporates vacuum assisted part nesting to ensure process stability and repeatability
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Newberry, South Carolina
Rack Fabrication
- Plating rack design and fabrication
- Burn-off oven and Plastisol coating capability
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Newberry, South Carolina
Vacuum Metalizing
- 1st and 2nd surface acrylic capability
- Multiple surface colors
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Newberry, South Carolina
Wire Bending Operation
- Part of vertical integration strategy to internally build retention wires for wheel trim
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Newberry, South Carolina
Injection Molding
The following capabilities are available at the Nicholasville, Kentucky location.
- Specialized equipment for decorative “class-A” surfaces
- Utilizing engineering grade thermoplastics required for exterior applications
- Automated part removal systems to ensure quality
- Supported by secondary CNC machining and press operations
The following capabilities are available at the Newberry, South Carolina location.
- 160 to 300 ton injection molding machines
- Multiple resin drying and feed capability
- Infrastructure to support twenty or more machines
Painting
Painting – Overhead Line
- High volume wheel cover finishing (3,000 parts/hour)
- Incorporates 5-stage pre-wash system
- Utilizes prime / base / clear exterior paint system to achieve visual and performance requirements
- Features HVLP reciprocating paint guns
- Employs on-line masking system for secondary color application when specified
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Nicholasville, Kentucky
Painting – Chain on Edge Line
- Designed for high volume center cap finishing
- Incorporates product pre-wash system
- Utilizes prime / base / clear exterior paint system to achieve visual and performance requirements
These capabilities are available at the following MVC facilities:
Nicholasville, Kentucky
Tooling and Engineering
MVC Tooling & Engineering is a leading manufacturer of medium to high-complexity plastic injection molds and related tooling. Our customers serve the automotive, government, medical, recreational and consumer goods markets.
We offer CAD-based tool design plus programmable 3-D CNC-based machining and electrical discharge machining – advanced technologies to meet your complete tooling requirements.
We bring mold design, manufacturing and mold trial capabilities together in a 36,000 sq. ft. facility. We have state of the art molding controls for tool try outs. Our in-house capabilities include injection presses from 90 to 700 tons to sample and qualify tools or to provide short-run production support.
Facilities
- CAD/CAM
- Unigraphics NX software
- NC CAD/CAM
- Solidworks CAD
- Beaumont Technologies for mold flow simulations
- DFX drawings
- IGES, STEP models
- Mold building expertise
- Multi-Shot
- Hot runner/cold runner
- Thermoplastic, thermoset & blow molding plastic
- High cavitation, high production, single cavity & prototype
- Design & Manufacture of Zinc Die-cast Tooling
- Precision Machining
- Recently purchased a new Haas VF7/50 VMC, which provides high speed machining capability
- Horizontal machining center with 5000 lb. workload capacity
- Multiple vertical machining centers, 3500-6000 lb. workload capacity
- Graphite vertical machining center with automated tool changer
- Multiple manual milling and grinding work stations
- Electrical Discharge Machining
- 2 Makino Vertical EDM cells
- 2 Wire EDM Machining center
- Injection Presses
- 700-ton Cincinnati Milicron
- 375-ton Cincinnati Milicron
- 90-ton Mitsubishi
Equipment
- CNC EDM (Sinker)
- Makino EDNC 65 (tank size 43X29X17)
- Makino EDNC 43
- Sodick Moldmaker III
- Sodick A3C-R
- Sodick A3R
- CNC Wire EDM
- Charmilles 510
- Sodick A-500-H
- Surface Grinders
- 12 X 24 Automatic Okomoto grinder
- 16 X 32 Okomoto grinder
- 10 X 15 Gardner manual grinders (3)
- 8 X 18 Mitsui manual
- 6 X 12 Mitsui grinders (6)
- OD & Jig Grinders (3)
- Bridgeports
- EZ-Trak Plus 9 X 48 table size (2)
- Bridgeport 2J 9 X 42 (3)
- Bridgeport I-2HP 9 X 42 (2)
- CNC Milling
- Haas VF7/50 VMC provides high speed machining capability
- Cincinnati Magnum 800 horizontal mill
- Makino SNC 64 high speed graphite mill
- Haas VF-3
- Leblond Makino FNC 128 CNC mill
- Nakamura Slant 1 Lathe
- Hurco Hawk 30
- Injection Presses
- Mitsubishi 80 MSP-5 hydraulic; clamp tonnage 90
- Cincinnati 375-45 hydraulic; clamp tonnage 375; 48 oz. shot capacity
- Cincinnati H700 hydraulic; clamp tonnage 700; 70 oz. shot capacity
Wheel Assembly
- Features 2 RTV and 3 urethane foam, fully automated wheel clad assembly lines
- Supported by Fanuc robotics
- Process includes adhesive-metering controls, comprehensive data gathering and high-resolution vision systems
These capabilities are available at the Nicholasville, Kentucky MVC facility.