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with additional specialized services in engineering design, CNC machining, milling and turning, electromechanical assembly, paint coatings, and plastic injection molding. BMP offers turnkey solutions for its customers.

BMP Metals Inc. is the manufacturing
arm of the Bempro Global Group of
companies, which includes:
Cable Talk has become synonymous
with excellence and innovation in the
telecom industry. With over 22 years of
experience, Cable Talk works actively with
clients to design and develop customized
data center solutions. Products include
enclosures, modular hot/cold aisle
containment, “flex-top” cabinets, racks,
cable management and power distribution.

Climate Worx International is a supplier in the mission critical, cooling solutions industry, and is an exciting environment to gain insight on the entire process from design to delivery. Climate Worx International prides itself on building innovative, custom solutions to fit every customer’s needs. Climate Worx International offers products ranging from 1-50 tons of cooling, which use cooling options, such as chilled water and refrigeration (DX) in air, water, and glycol, along with combinations for dual and free cooling selections.

Today, BMP has more than 11,613 sq m (125,000 sq ft) of manufacturing capacity spread across two buildings in Brampton, Ontario, with more than 125 employees.

The company services such industries as telecommunications, industrial automation, atomic energy, transportation, medical, aerospace, military, and others.

In order to achieve its goals, BMP has a track record of investing in the latest automated equipment. SMT

Hammond Manufacturing is a Canadian success story. The

100-year-old company based in Guelph, ON, is a global manufacturer of industrial and electrical enclosures, racks and cabinets. It began as a backyard workshop and today is a publicly traded company that employs more than 600 people with multiple locations in Canada, the US, the UK and Taiwan.

Its success is due in large part to the attention to detail and to the quality of its metal fabricated parts. And if you ask Ram Persaud, tool room lead hand, who has been with the company for 24 years, part of that success is due to its relationship with long time press brake tooling supplier Wilson Tool. The company has supplied Hammond with press brake tooling and clamping technology for more than two decades. Persaud works out of the company’s main plant in Guelph, a 17,280 sq m (186,000 sq ft) manufacturing operation.

The company also operates a second, 10,963 sq m (118, 000 sq ft) plant in Guelph.

The most significant metal
fabricating process at the
facility is bending, using more
than 10 press brakes from
different builders, including
several recent Amada press
brakes. Hammond bends
ferrous and non-ferrous metals,
specializing in aluminum,
stainless steel, and mild steel
ranging in lengths from 102
to 3,048 mm ( 4 to 120 in.) and
in thicknesses from 1.2 to 2.59
mm ( 18 to 10 gauge). While the
company uses other bending
tools, its mainstay bend tooling
is Wilson Tool’s European
Precision style and WT style
tooling with Wilson Tool’s Express
clamping technology.

“Compared to other tooling, Wilson Tooling is as accurate as any tooling out there. We purchase our tooling directly from Wilson in the US, but we also do a lot of specialized folding for different products that require custom tooling and Wilson’s Brampton facility is great for that,” explains Persaud.

That’s because Persaud and his
team work directly with people
at the Brampton plant. “We’ve
known the people there for a
long time as we used Exacta
tooling before Wilson purchased
the company. We use quite a
bit of custom tooling and Wilson
is great to work with on this.”
The WT Precision tooling
is precision manufactured
to a tolerance of +/- 0.1 mm
(+/- .0004 in.) on all critical
dimensions. Lengths of 500
mm ( 19. 69 in.) solid and