Kurz-Kasch Core Competencies

The Company’s manufacturing capabilities are organized around its five core competencies: molding, winding, terminating, overmolding and machining. Each of the Company’s facilities is dedicated to a particular core competency set with support provided from the other facilities based on a specific product’s requirements. The following table illustrates the Company’s five key core competencies.

Core Competency	Description
PRECISION MOLDING	With molding press capacities ranging from 30 to 1,500 tons, Kurz-Kasch has the capability to mold nearly any part required by any industry. With over 90 years of experience in molding involving compression, compress-injection, injection and transfer processes, Kurz-Kasch can mold parts ranging in size from whole door panels and automotive body panels to precision automotive (under-the-hood), aerospace and electrical components.
WINDING	With the inclusion of electric motor components to the wide variety of coil and coil-based products produced by Kurz-Kasch, the Company now has the widest possible range of standard and unique coil winding and forming capabilities. With a long history of high speed bobbin wound coil manufacturing and complimentary electric motor stator coil winding and form methods developed, Kurz-Kasch has a unique capability in nonstandard coil manufacturing. The Company’s winding equipment includes multi-head bobbin coil winding machines to unique, custom designed coil winding and forming equipment.
TERMINATION TECHNOLOGY	Kurz-Kasch has many years of experience in the termination of magnets and lead in coil, stator, solenoid and specialty electrical product applications. These termination processes include crimping, heat soldering, reflow soldering, flame soldering, resistance welding, plasma arc welding, brazing, insulation displacement and wire bonding and others. Kurz-Kasch has also developed specialty control techniques for these termination methods to permit them to be automated and to provide rigorous joint integrity monitoring, allowing for further quality assurance.
MACHINING	Through its work with stators over the last two decades Kurz-Kasch has developed significant expertise in machining to fine finishes, often within tolerances of 3 to 5 microns. For its products, Kurz-Kasch must often machine several dissimilar materials simultaneously, requiring a unique knowledge and experience.
OVERMOLDING	Kurz-Kasch has developed unique capabilities in the overmolding of electrical and mechanical assemblies and components. The Company’s overmolding applications include electrical coils, stators, solenoids, electric motor components and valve assemblies. Kurz-Kasch can overmold with both thermosets and thermoplastics, using traditional methods or proprietary Kurz-Kasch processes. The Company has also developed a proprietary specialty thermoplastic material with unique thermal management and dielectric properties.