{"id":10822,"date":"2026-02-13T04:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/?p=10822"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:12:14","slug":"lost-die-casting-tooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/lost-die-casting-tooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Die Casting Tooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fblike_button\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kineticdiecasting.com%2Fkdc%2Flost-die-casting-tooling%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=verdana&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:23px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Twice in the last two weeks, Kinetic Die Casting Company was contacted to see if a lost die casting tool was in our inventory.  Two die casting companies closed and the customer did not get their die casting tooling before the die casting company disappeared. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/cox-die-casting-company\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cox Die Casting Company, Gardena, California<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>and\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/american-aluminum-casting-co-irvington-nj\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Aluminum Casting Co. Irvington, New Jersey<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In each case, the customer needed 100 to 150 die casting parts but did not have the die cast tool.  In both cases, we had to price a new 12&#215;15 Unit Die Casting Tool for $17,000 and the die casting parts for around $10 each.  That would cost the customer about $123 each for 150 die casting parts.  That is a crazy price for a lost die casting tool. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kinetic Die Casting Company<\/a>, Inc.<br \/>\n6918 Beck Avenue, North Hollywood, California USA 91605<br \/>\nE-mail <a href=\"mailto:sales@kineticdiecasting.com\" target=\"_blank\">sales@kineticdiecasting.com<\/a><br \/>\n(818) 982-9200<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cropped-kinetic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Kinetic Die Casting<\/p>\n<p>Permalink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/lost-die-casting-tooling\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/lost-die-casting-tooling\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice in the last two weeks, Kinetic Die Casting Company was contacted to see if a lost die casting tool was in our inventory. Two die casting companies closed and the customer did not get their die casting tooling before &hellip;<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/lost-die-casting-tooling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tooling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10827,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822\/revisions\/10827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}