Dynacast Lake Forest is strategically located in Southern California’s beautiful Orange County. Nestled in the Saddleback Mountain foothills between Los Angeles and San Diego, Dynacast Lake Forest is equally adept serving technology driven companies as well as a multitude of high-volume manufacturers located throughout the Western US, Mexico Border and Asia. Dynacast Lake Forest has among the most extensive offerings within the Dynacast network and is an industry leader in multi-slide and conventional zinc die casting, as well as precision aluminum die casting. Additional value-added services include; DFM, prototyping, process simulation, tool design and build, machining, finishing, assembly and packaging.
The wide variety of markets served includes automotive, lock & hardware, electronics, computer, consumer electronics, sporting goods and medical. Dynacast Lake Forest produces many technically challenging die cast components including safety critical automotive parts, thin-wall, tight tolerance castings and parts with various decorative finishes. Our up-front engineering support includes: DFM to ensure parts can be die cast consistently in high volumes, numerous prototyping solutions, process simulation including die casting flow and air entrapment and parametric 3D tool design. We then build the finest quality tools with only the best tool steel – our tools are so good we guarantee them for the life of customer’s production.
A robust Program Management System which includes both cross-functional Tooling and Process Advanced Quality Planning Teams ensures new programs are launched on-time and with no surprises. Our multi-cultural team, which serves customers in the US, Mexico, Asia and Europe, has managed numerous programs sourced from multiple Dynacast locations (i.e. Lake Forest and Shanghai). Experience the Dynacast Lake Forest Advantage!
- 31 Dynacast Multi-Slide Zinc die casting machines ranging from 4 to 28 tons.
- 5 Conventional Zinc die casting machines ranging from 50 to 200 tons.
- 15 Aluminum die casting machines from 150 to 520 tons.
- DFM design, part modeling and prototype services.
- Tool design, process simulation including die casting flow and air entrapment and tool build.
- Tumbling, polishing and shot blasting finishing.
- De-ionized washing to ensure cleanliness of electronic housings.
- Tapping, drilling, reaming, CNC machining, custom machining centers.
- Hardware installation and assembly.
- Vision Systems.
- Custom packaging.
- Turn-key management of outside services including plating, painting and thermal deburring.