Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Who are Aldax?

Very much a family affair. There are 4 of us . Joseph, Adam, Joan and Stan. Joseph is the son of Jackie who as all who know the Alderson group of companies has been company secretary and chief financial officer for over 35 years, so Joseph is one of the family.
When we recently sold the Revesby factory premises where we had operated for over 25 years in the hobby ceramic field we moved to Mortdale to enable us to concentrate on our main interest of mouldmaking.
This has been an exciting venture and the company is growing steadily. We have just taken over the SuperMoulds business and web sites of Reece Williams of Southport Qld who is retiring. This will expand our latex moulds range and provide further interest. Adam will be meeting with Reece shortly to carry on the good work that Reece has been doing over the years.
Joseph has just set up a video section on our web site and this will be expanded continuously as videos are proving invaluable in helping to demonstrate how moulds are made and used. Look under the Tech Tips and Info heading on the front page of the web site for the drop down menu that leads to the videos. 4 up so far.
One section we would like to give attenion to is the customer project section. Many of you are doing work that would be of interest to others and we are keen to feature photos and the story behind your work. We intend to help promote any small businesses that use our products so take advatage of this opportunity.
All the best,
Stan Alderson.

Who are Aldax?

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Custom Moulds :3D design work

We had our CNC machine serviced this morning as it has been running hot from producing our mould masters.

I am often asked how we set about making a new mould. We start by going to our customer request list to find a suitable subject that potentially has a sales potential.

After drawing up the design in 2D we scan the drawing into our computers and bring the drawing to life in other computer software. We then drop it into another program and convert the 3D file to machine code and send it out to our CNC machine that carves the master ready for us to vacuum form on another machine.

In quoting for custom mould work we are often unnecessarily feel like apologising for the time and effort involved, which makes it a very expensive business to make a master mould. Custom work is a lot cheaper if we are given a job starting from an original sculpture. However not everyone is talented enough to sculpt to the standerd that the market demands.

Most of our new range of concrete moulds are being made direct from natural materials. Rock moulds will make concrete reproductions that will look like real rock. We hope this will result in more bush rock being left where it belongs unspoiled in the bush.

Stan