At MDL, we’ve developed a proven approach that has been honed across thousands of successful projects and began by taking time to clearly understand what Thomas Dudley was looking to achieve.

Mark Fisher, MD at MDL explained “marking the 100^th year in business is a major achievement for any organisation. As such, we were delighted when Thomas Dudley asked us to get involved. Once we’d agreed on objectives, our in-house design team modelled up 7 miniature landmarks and an accompanying commemorative coin”.

“We’re vastly experienced in manufacturing highly detailed zinc die castings and were able to quickly configure designs that optimised quality and minimised unit costs. In just one week, these designs had been presented and approved. We then produced tooling and off tool samples”.

“By the fourth week, we had produced over 1,000 sets of miniature icons, sourced a bespoke presentation box and assembled and packed them ready for delivery to Thomas Dudley. The presentation boxes were then given to everyone who attended the celebration customer event”.

The project included:

• Modelling up the selected landmark miniatures using SolidWorks CAD/CAM software
• Cutting new tooling in-house. This contained interchangeable inserts to mould all 8 icons via single shots on our high-pressure zinc diecasting machines
• Tooling was highly polished to eliminate the need for additional machining or finishing
• The icons could then be immediately plated in a hard-wearing decorative finish
• Finally, our bespoke product assembly capabilities were called upon to pack the icon sets into the custom presentation boxes