Plant & Equipment
Helm Tool Company's 30 employees work in a 25,500 square foot manufacturing area with over 70 of the world's finest tools. Helm Tool handles all key
manufacturing steps to make precision tools in house. We can handle up to 750 ton molding press and stack molds up to 16,000 pounds. We offer full 3-D
modeling and engineering for our customers. This is a short list of some of our machines:
Tool Building Machinery
Computer Software
- Solidworks Solid Modeling Program
- Powermill by Delcam for part programming
- Additional software by Anvil and Teksoft
High Speed Machining Centers
- Seven - high speed mills (Makino, Roeders) with up to 42,000 RPM spindles
- Ability to work on hardened steel up to 60 Rockwell
CNC Work Centers
- 2 - 5 axis DMG machining centers, 1 with a 70 x 78" working envelope, 1 with a 5 pallet system and 120 position tool changer
- 5 - CNC vertical mills various sizes with tool changers
Die Sinkers
- EDM die sinkers (Charmilles, Agie/Elox)
- CNC EDM hole drilling machine (Current EDM)
Wire EDM
- Two - Wire EDM machines (Charmilles)
Water Jet Cutting
- Water Jet Machining Center 50HP (Flow)
- 4' x 8' cutting capacity 6" thick
Grinding Equipment
- Hydraulic Surface Grinders (Danobat, Elb, Mitsui, Okamato/Mitsui)
- Rotary Grinding Table
- Dead True Grinding Machine
Miscellaneous Equipment
- Gun Drilling Machine (Eldorado-Miroku)
- Tool room mills with power feed and readouts
- Box truck
- Various other equipment
- Turning Equipment
Molding
Molding Equipment
- Molding presses (Krauss Maffei): 90 to 350 metric tons
- Storage silo approximately 67,000 pounds
- Central material handling system with drying and color blending facilities
- Auxiliary equipment