INSTRUMENT COMPANY
111 East 'A' Street
Butner, NC 27509-2426
Phone: 919 575-6426
Fax: 919 575-4708
THE COMPANY

Since 1949, we have worked very hard at providing quality products and services at fair prices, in a people-oriented environment. We invite you to investigate www.enewton.com to find out more about Newton and what the company and our people have to offer to you.

With over 53 years of experience, we know what it takes to engineer quality products. Newton offers a complete range of services for turnkey product development, including engineering, prototyping, production and finishing.

Newton Instrument’s focus is to provide you with consistent quality in all phases of the turnkey product development process. We build products using state of the art technology operated by a flexible and highly skilled ISO 9001 workforce that averages 7 years of service with Newton.  Each employee is trained in ISO 9001 processes covering operational and performance team skills. This organization values People, Partners and Success; we are eager to demonstrate the success we can provide to you as a partner.

 

•CAPABILITIES

Newton’s facilities in central North Carolina includes an extensive, state-of-the-art array of Metal Fabrication Equipment.

 

•FACILITIES

Manufacturing, Engineering & Warehouse

  • 400,000 square feet of Warehouse space for shipping and storage
  • 150,000 square feet of Manufacturing space
  • 5,000 sqare feet of Engineering space

•HEAVY / SHEET METAL FABRICATION

Machining/Drilling & Tapping

  • 1-Haas Machining Centers
    84” bed travel
    Precision +/- .003

  • 2-Haas Machining Centers
    54” bed travel
    Precision +/- .003

  • 10-Single Head Drill Presses and Tappers
    Drilling, tapping, countersink
    Steel, aluminum and copper
  • 1-Moline Drill and tap
    up to 7’ lengths
    200 spindles
    Horizontal drilling

  • 1-16 Spindle Drill Press
    Drill and tap up to 14’ lengths
    Capacity: up to 3 x 3 angle,
    ½ x 3 flat bar,
    3 x 4.1 structural channel

  • 6-Flexarm Tapping Units
    tapping holes up ½” dia.

  • 3-Multi Spindle tapping machines

Stamping
  • 1-Bliss Punch
    60 tons of punching capacity
    Precision +/- .005
  • 2-Pacific Punch
    150 tons of punching capacity
    Precision +/- .005

Shearing & Cutting
  • 1-Amada 12’ shear
    Handle Ό” x 12’ material
    Precision +/- .005

  • 1-Peddinghaus Iron Worker
    Shear, notch, and punch single holes in up to 3/8 steel
  • 1-Hem Saw
    Band Saw with twin column style
    Good for cutting structural bundles of material
    Precision +/- 1/32

  • 1-Eisley Cold Cut Saw
    16 foot DRO
    Precision +/- .005

Punching
  • 5-Trumpf TC500
    Auto sheet loading/unloading of material up to 48” X 120”
    Precision +/- .003

  • 1-Trumpf TC500
    Stand Alone
    Allows repositioning of material up to 60” X 144”
    Precision +/- .003
  • 1-Amada Punch
    40 tool turret punch equipped with heavy style tooling
    Punch up to 3/16 material.
    Precision +/- .005

Forming
  • 3-V130 Trumpf Press Brake
    8-10 axis capability
    10’ Bending Length
    143 Bending US Tons

  • 2-V50 Trumpf Press Brake
    8 axis capability
    4’ Bending Length
    55 Bending US Tons

  • 2-V170 Trumpf Press Brake
    8 axis capability
    13’ Bending Length
    187 Bending US Tons

  • 1-V230 Trumpf Press Brake
    8 axis capability
    10’ Bending Length
    253 Bending US Tons
  • 1-LVD Press Brake
    8’ Bending Length
    110 Bending US Tons

  • 2-Wysong Press Brake
    6’-8’ Bending Length
    110-140 Bending US Tons

  • 1-Hiem Press Brake
    6’ Bending Length
    30 Bending US Tons

  • 1-Pacific Press Brake
    10’ Bending Length
    110 Bending US Tons

Robotic Welding
  • 1-ABB Robotic Welder
    6 axis positioning
    Shuttle with fixture size 36” x 48”
    Precision +/- .003

  • 1-ABB Robotic Welder, Large
    6 axis positioning
    Dual Head orbital positioner
    Capacity: 12’ length
    Precision +/- .003

  • 1-ABB Robotic Welder, Large
    6 axis positioning
    Single head orbital positioner
    Capacity: 7’ length
    Precision +/- .003

  • 1-ABB Robotic Welder, small parts
    6 axis positioning
    Manual load and unload
    Capacity: 2’ length
    Precision +/- .003
  • 2-ABB Robotic Welder
    6 axis positioning
    Shuttle with fixture size 40” x 144”
    Dual head
    Precision +/- .003

  • 1-ABB Robotic Welder
    6 axis positioning
    Shuttle with fixture size 40” x 120”
    Dual head
    Precision +/- .003

  • 1-ABB Robotic Welder
    6 axis positioning
    Shuttle with fixture size 40” x 120”
    Single head
    Precision +/- .003

Manual Welding
  • 17-Miller MIG and TIG Welder

  • 1-Miller Aluminum MIG Welder
  • 3-Spot Welders
    Capacity: Ό” thick aluminum 3/8” thick steel
    Size: 50 KVA, 100 KVA, 200 KVA

Assembly
  • Heager Insertion Presses
    Pem installers
    Ability to install various Pem Hardware.
    Capacity: 8 Ton/ 24” Throat Depth
  

•FINISHING

Painting

  • 1-Manual Paint Booth

  • 1-Manual Bake Oven
    Capable of painting and baking parts up to 20 ft in length

  • 2-Burn off Ovens
    Cleans powder paint off hooks and painting fixtures
  • 2-Automated Paint lines
    State of the art
    All Powder Runs at average of 10 ft/min
    2-1/2’ x 5’ x 12’ parts or 3’ x 4’ x 12’ parts
    5 stage Spray washes
    4-Nordson Automatic booths for ease of color change
    2-Nordson Manual booths.


Plating
  • 12’ long rack line for plating
    Zinc chloride and gold chromate

  • Barrel line for smaller parts
    Zinc chloride and gold chromate
 Cleaning and Deburr
  • 2-Sweco Vibratory finishes that can handle up to 36” parts

  • 1-Barrel Tumbler

  • 1-Timesaver sander: straight grains/flat parts

•ENGINEERING

  • Newton’s engineering staff has 120 years of combined experience at Newton Instrument Company

  • Degreed mechanical and manufacturing engineers, which includes certified North Carolina Professional and Robotic engineers

  • Pro/ENGINEER v.2001 (with Pro/SHEETMETAL module) and Pro/INTRALINK v.3.3 engineering design data management software.

  • TOPS and MerryMech Software for CNC programming

  • Newton’s engineering staff is Pro/E and Pro/I certified.

  • Projects tracked through in-house, online Engineering Work Order (EWO) system

  • Quantity-based fast and accurate quoting process

  • Prototyping capabilities through software design tools and flexible in-house machining centers

  • Certified Robotic Engineer on staff

  • Compatible file extensions and formats:
    • All Pro/ENGINEER file formats (including Pro/E v.2001)
    • DWG (AutoCAD)
    • DXF (AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format)
    • IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification)
    • STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product model data)
    • CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
    • PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document Format)

•CERTIFICATIONS

  • 18-Certified North Carolina AWS Welders

  • 2-North Carolina Professional Engineers

  • 1-Certified Robotic Engineer

  • 1- Certified Master Craftsman

•CONTACTS

CEO
Walter Newton
phone: 919-575-6426
fax: 919-575-4708

 Engineering
Bryan Caudill
phone: 919-575-5535
fax: 919-575-4708
Contract Sales
Patrick Patton
phone: 919-575-5573
fax: 919-575-4708		 Operations
Mark Zimmerman
phone: 919-575-5592
fax: 919-575-4708