Custom Fabrication, a Storm Copper Specialty

Storm Copper Components is one of the largest fabricators of copper busbars, laminated busbars and copper ground busbars in the United States. Literally tons of finished copper products for all types of electrical applications are in their warehouse, but Storm also has the equipment and highly skilled technicians to custom fabricate copper based on a customer’s individual needs, large or small.

		Storm’s custom fabricating capabilities fall into several categories, listed below. And sometimes a job may require several of these processes for the same piece. When the process goes from simple to complex, that’s were Storm’s exceptional tooling skills and specialty equipment give them a leg up.

With the advantage of Flex-Tooling equipment, Storm can produce specialty items that would normally require lengthy and expensive hard-die tooling, in a fraction of the time and cost as some competitive copper suppliers. And, unless there is a very unusual template involved, customers will never be charged a hard-die setup charge, because they don’t need them.

Storm’s materials, processes, and finished components are engineered to meet, as needed, standards required by ASME, UL, CSA, Bellcore, and other testing/standards bodies. Storm's highly skilled technicians and craftsmen create custom orders to exacting specifications. Since virtually every part made is custom to a particular manufacturer or application, Storm has created a number of new cost effective techniques of producing connectors in both low and high volume production runs.

Punching

This type of copper fabricating is done CNC punches. These punches have multiple tool holders and have the tonnage to punch up to .500" thick copper bar and plate. The tolerance with this particular copper fabricating equipment is +/- .020".

Stamping

This method of copper fabricating is performed with high tonnage presses. Even so, the maximum thickness copper typically stamped is .250". The tolerance on this method of copper fabricating varies depending on the tooling employed.

Turret Punching

This piece of equipment performs punching and cutting the outside perimeter of the copper part. This is the primary method of producing parts with odd shapes, tabs or fingers. Generally, the thickness of the copper is .250" and less. Tolerances associated with this particular process is +/- .005".

Machining

This method of fabricating copper, also known as milling, has the greatest versatility and can produce an almost endless array of copper fabrications. Moreover, tolerances as close as .001" can be achieved with this equipment. Unfortunately, it is also a relatively higher cost method of production because of the significant set-up and tooling costs.

Forming

This is a secondary step in the copper fabricating process and is performed after the part has been cut to length and punched or milled. During this process the part is bent or formed to the specifications of the print.

Plating

This is normally the final step in the copper fabricating process. Storm can electroplate tin, lead, numerous tin/lead alloys, silver and nickel. It is worth noting that the copper parts are deburred prior the electroplating operation.

So, no matter how much punching, stamping, machining, forming or plating your project requires, Storm can do the job better, faster, and more economically.

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