Van Der Zwaag Molds & Dies Inc.

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"I came across VDZ while going from one building to another when I worked for DALSA (Teledyne). I spoke with them about their capabilities and our needs. VDZ was tooled up to fabricate moulds for the Cambridge-Kitchener-Waterloo area including high technology and telecommunications needs. VDZ saw the potential of working for a company like DALSA. We needed quick and very accurate prototype products parts and complex tooling. Designing concepts for very high accuracy applications requires a constant communication between designer and machine shop to ensure manufacturability.

In 1953, the family immigrated to Canada where Roelf quickly found employment in the tool and die shop at the W.C.Wood Company in Guelph. Later moving to Kitchener Waterloo, Roelf worked at Cluthe Mfg. in the mould shop and later at Mitchell Plastics as a Tool Room Foreman building tools supervising other mould makers and estimating work projects. Building on the entrepreneurial spirit sparked in Holland , Roelf started a home-based business serving the plastics and machinery industry. Roelf's son, Ron VanDerZwaag, was trained by his father from the age of 16.

Our unique blend of machine shop equipment allows us to do a wide variety of work in house and totally under our control. We work to a shop standard of +/- 50 microns (0.002”) linear dimensions and holding flatness to 75 micron (0.003”) flatness; starting at these shop tolerances we can get to much tighter tolerances if required. Our new 3D printing capability has positioned us to be a one-stop shop "from Plan to Prototype to Product ". We manufacture parts & components with ultra close tolerances and can produce parts with extremely tight flatness requirements.

After the North American mold industry was beseiged by off-shore mold makers in 2006, the company reinvented itself into the extremely capable versatile machine shop it is today. To reflect the change in direction the company is undergoing a name change to VanDerZwaag Machining and Development . VanDerZwaag Machining and Development provides highly specialized fixtures, prototypes and components. We are set up for a wide range of materials including stainless steels, aluminiums and exotic engineered plastics.

Our unique blend of machine shop equipment allows us to do a wide variety of work in house and totally under our control. We work to a shop standard of +/- 50 microns (0.002”) linear dimensions and holding flatness to 125 micron (0.005”) flatness.

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