C & R MOLDS, INC.
2737 PALMA DRIVE
VENTURA, CA 93003
(805) 658-7093 : (805) 650-9249 Fax

C&R Molds, Ventura, CA., is a custom mold specialist "from Concept to Production" producing molds mostly for plastic part manufacture in the plumbing fittings field, aerospace and medical grade parts. Customers range from Southern California to New Jersey and Arkansas. In business 10 years, the company's reputation in its marketplace has brought steady growth in work, in equipment, in know-how. Starting out sharing 1000 sq. ft. with another company, presently their facility in Ventura boasts 12,500 sq. ft. on two floors. "Generally we just build custom molds but we do some job shop work running production jobs occasionally," says Randal Ohnemus, V.P. And beyond moldmaking, C&R Molds uses 10 injection molding machines to provide customers with finished products, mostly plastic parts in quantity runs. About 20% of its jobs are for medical products, made in a clean room with two molding machines for producing medical and dental parts. C&R Molds uses aluminum plus a lot of 420 stainless, particularly for its plumbing equipment customers where corrosion is a factor. It specializes in conventional, hot runner, stack and automatic unwinding molds. The injection molders housed in a separate plant area run from 40 and 50 ton machines to 200 and 400 ton machines. C&R also offers full hydraulic and pneumatic core pulls and unwinding.

With a complete design and engineering department, the company offers CAD programming using MasterCAM software and disks for the CNC vertical machining centers one OOYA, Model RE-1M, the other a Cummings VMC 1200. These mills have 24 tool ATCs and Dapra ball nose milling cutters are featured. The Ooya CNC mill on which the Dapra tooling is used is the RE-1M with Fanuc System 6M control, while the other mill, the Cummings VMC 1200, has a Delta CNC Dynapath control. The Sharp knee mills are equipped with Mitutoyo X-Y DRO's. Variety of Dapra ball nose mills insert are used for profiling at C & R Molds. Three of four sizes used are shown on machine table and in toolholder on Ooya machining center.