{"id":1776,"date":"2010-10-13T01:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T08:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2013-12-31T18:12:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T01:12:59","slug":"why-die-casting-parts-cost-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/why-die-casting-parts-cost-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Die Casting Parts Cost So Much"},"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%2Fwhy-die-casting-parts-cost-so-much%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>Thank you Mr. Die Casting Parts Buyer for placing your $133.65 Purchase Order for 135 aluminum die casting parts, for $0.99 each part.  <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I need to increase the price for the parts before I can accept the Purchase Order you sent to my company.  You might ask, <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/why-die-casting-parts-cost-so-much\/\">Why Do Die Casting Parts Cost So Much?<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You previous supplier, &#8220;The Small Die Casting Company&#8221; went out of business, because the company owner ran out of money.  Most people do not know what it takes to make a die casting part.  I don&#8217;t usually give this much boring details about why die casting parts cost what they do.  Let me explain a little about the cost of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/manufacturing.html\">die casting manufacturing<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The $.99 part cost Small Die Casting Company charged would cover the cost of the metal in the part, but does not cover these additional manufacturing costs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> One &#8211; two hours labor fitting your insert tool into our mold base.<\/li>\n<li> Two &#8211; three hours labor setting the mold into the die casting machine.\n<li> Gas and electricity cost of four hours breaking down aluminum in a furnace operating at 1,500,000 BTUs.\n<li> Labor and electricity cost producing parts for  two hours in a die casing machine using a 50 hp motor.\n<li> Labor cost for two hours of two people filing the excess material from the casting.\n<li> Labor cost of an inspector to verify the parts are produced correctly.\n<li> Labor and materials cost to package the parts for shipment.\n<li> Labor necessary to complete the required inspection and certifications paperwork.\n<li> Additional overhead costs like supervision, health insurance, office staff, vacation, holidays, workers compensation insurance, safety supplies and rent.\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Small Die Casting Company<\/strong> did not have a parts inspector, or any supervisors or a toolmaker.  The company owner did everything himself and he still ran out of money.  I am surprised he was able to stay in business and hang in there trying, as long as he did! <\/p>\n<p>I hope this detailed explanation does not seem harsh to you.  Thank you for providing another obvious example of why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/profile.html\">Small Die Casting Company<\/a> went out of business.  He went out of business because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/\">aluminum die casting parts<\/a> cost more than the price of metal to produce good die casting parts.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Thomas, President<br \/>\nKinetic Die Casting Company<br \/>\n800-524-8083<\/p>\n<p>Kinetic Die Casting manufactures products like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/bracket.html\" title=\"aluminum hardware\">aluminum hardware<\/a>, and aluminum boxes.  If you would like more information on Kinetic Die Casting, please visit our website:<a href=\"kineticdiecasting.com\" title=\"Kinetic Die Casting Company\">Kinetic Die Casting Company<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Mr. Die Casting Parts Buyer for placing your $133.65 Purchase Order for 135 aluminum die casting parts, for $0.99 each part. Unfortunately, I need to increase the price for the parts before I can accept the Purchase Order &hellip;<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/why-die-casting-parts-cost-so-much\/\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97],"tags":[170,52,35,174,180,37],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-die-casting-parts","tag-aluminum-die-casting","tag-aluminum-parts","tag-american-business","tag-die-casting-company","tag-kinetic-die-casting-company","tag-manufacturing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}