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🎞 History of Fineblanking:
✔ 1964: Schmid exhibits the FineBlanking Press at the Hannover Trade Fair. Feintool exhibits Fineblanking press at the 2nd Tokyo Machine Tool Fair.
✔ 1965: Feintool- Development of the hydraulic fineblanking press in partnership with SMG Schuler.
✔ 1966: Aida Iron Works Co., Ltd. (now Aida Engineering Ltd.) develops the first domestically produced 50T horizontal FB press.
Suzuki Motor Corporation installs a Schmid 250T FB press and begins FB processing of motorcycle sprockets.
✔ 1968: Lorentz develops hydraulic horizontal FB press. Suzuki Motor Corporation and Professor Kazuyoshi Kondo of Shizuoka University have jointly developed the opposed die shear method, which has been patented in Japan and in nine European and American countries.
✔ 1969: Apollo11-Hasselblad cameras, featuring components manufactured in Schiess AG using fineblanking technology, made history on the moon.
Schmid, Hydrel, Feintool and Lorentz exhibited FB presses at the Paris International Fair.
✔ 1970: Suzuki Motor Corporation enters into a technical partnership with Kamitaki Pressure Machinery Co., Ltd. (now Kotaki Co., Ltd.) and begins manufacturing opposed die presses.
✔ 1972: Feintool publishes the Fineblanking Practical Handbook.
✔ 1973: Feintool embarked on a phase of international growth. The company established subsidiaries in England ,France and Japan marking the beginning of its global expansion.
- Lorenz outsources sales of FB presses to Feintool and then completely withdraws from FB press manufacturing.
- Suzuki Motor Corporation established Japan Opposed Dies Co., Ltd., a manufacturer specializing in precision shearing (FB and opposed die processing), with joint investment from Kamitaki Pressure Machinery Co., Ltd.
✔ 1974: The Feintool System Parts Ettlingen production plant was established in Germany under the name Promera.
In India- Originally known as Indian Fine Blanks Limited, IFB was established in collaboration with Heinrich Schmid AG of Switzerland.
✔ 1976: Japan Opposed Dies Co., Ltd. was dissolved due to the partnership breakup between Suzuki and Kamitaki. Only 10 opposed die presses were produced, with 4 sold and 6 kept for internal use.
✔ 1977: Feintool established a technology center in the USA. The 1000th Feintool fineblanking press was delivered to a new customer in Milwaukee (USA).
✔ 1978: Suzuki partnered with Kawasaki and revived Japan Opposed Dies Co., Ltd. Feintool opened a production plant in Cincinnati, USA
✔ 1980: The Association of German Engineers publishes the industrial guideline "VDI3345"- Fineblanking
✔ 1982: Mori Iron Works, with Hirata Press Kogyo, developed the 160T FB press using government funding. They also formed Fine Mechanical Enterprise Co., Ltd. to sell these presses.
- Osterwalder, a manufacturer of mechanically driven FB presses, has released a hydraulic 250T FB press.
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