MCG is a family-owned private company located in Portugal that was founded in 1978. It has four business units and produces metal components, tooling and dies for the automotive, solar, and other industries. Over the decades, MCG has expanded its facilities and invested in new technology and management systems. It currently has four plants across 72,000 square meters and 327 employees. MCG partners with universities on research projects and has invested in new equipment like a laser cutting machine and simulation software to support its operations.

1. Company Presentation

2. Background
MCG was founded as a private company on January 1978,
as a continuation of the activity started by Mr. Manuel
Conceição Graça, over 40 years before.
The main activity used to be the refurbishing of vehicles and,
afterwards, the production of chassis and cabins for trucks
(Scania).
The construction of current facilities (Unit 1 parts
production) on 1978 has allowed the extension of the
activity towards the metal components for the automotive
industry. The production of tools and dies as well as the
vehicle assembling was maintained in the old facilities.
Later in 1999 the tooling production was finally transferred
to Unit 2 – tooling production, close to Unit 1.
Over the last decades major investments have been made on
both tooling construction and parts production plants, not
only in terms of technology but also on management and
information systems, which have definitely pushed the
company into a higher global level.

3. Family Owned Private Company
Located in Carregado, PORTUGAL
Over 60 years experience
Steel parts and assemblies, tool an die development and manufacturing
MCG mind for metal
Manuel Conceição Graça, Lda.

4. Metal 1| Stamping, assembling, surface treatment
Metal 2| Tool shop
Metal 3| Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing
Metal 4| Stamping (new press 2013)
Total Area: 72.000 m2 (covered 22.000 m2)
PLANTS

5. MCG’s sales stands on four different
business units:
MCG automotive - parts and assemblies for
the automotive industry
MCG tooling - tool and die design and
manufacturing
MCG laser - prototyping and rapid
manufacturing, small batches and flexible
production
MCG solar – solar thermal collector

6. CLIENTS

7. TURNOVER
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43% direct export | 100% direct/indirect export

9. HUMAN RESOURCES
Main engineering degrees:
 Mechanical
 Aerospace
 Materials
 Environmental
 and Computer Engineering
Metal 1+4 – 63%
Metal 2 – 12%
Metal 3 – 10%
Adm. – 15%
327workers
415 w/ temporary work force

10. Recent Projects Developed

11. CMF1 – seat structure
- Upper Crossmember
- 2.500.000 parts/year
- Presstable size:4,5m
- Vehicle:NissanQascai &Renault
Laguna, VWPolo
- BackrestSidemember
- 2.500.000 parts/year
- Presstable size:6,5m
- Vehicle:NissanQascai &Renault
Laguna, VWPolo
- LowerCrossmember
- 1.500.000 parts/year
- Presstable size:6,5m
- Vehicle:NissanQascai &Renault
Laguna
- Front Crossmember
- 3.500.000 parts/year
- Presstable size: 4,5m
- Vehicle:NissanQascai &Renault
Laguna, VWPolo

12. 9’’ Drum Break Product Dev & Tooling

13. ATM Machine

14. WASTE BINS

15. PELLET STOVES

16. EMBRAER KC 390 Tooling

17. R&D Partners & Projects

18. Partnership MCG - IST
http://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/
Since its creation in 1911, Instituto
Superior Técnico is the largest and
most reputed school of Engineering,
Science and Technology and
Architecture in Portugal.
It has three campi, all located in the
Greater Lisbon area (Alameda in Lisbon,
Taguspark in Oeiras and Tecnológico e
Nuclear Campus in Loures),

19. Partnership MCG - IST
MCG sponsors manufacturing labs at IST (NOF)

20. Partnership MCG - IST
MCG works in cooperation with IST and PhD
Paulo Martins on several projects that lead to
several paper publications (that we can share
and discuss) and magazine covers

21. R&D Projects (concluded) – MouldCork
Optimize thermal,
acoustic and damping
characteristics on
structural metal
components

22. R&D Projects (concluded) – Mould Cork
Challenge:
Optimize thermal, acoustic and damping
characteristics on structural metal components
Conventional approach
Use of insulators and damping materials
applied after assembling operations
MCG Approach:
Optimize a composite cork base polymer
for conventional stamping process, taking
advantage of three characteristics
associated with cork:
Low weight
High acoustic and damping performance
High thermal performance

23. R&D Projects (concluded) – Tube Forming
Challenge:
To replace the welding
connections by others with the
same mechanical characteristics
Conventional approach
Conventional welding
MCG Approach:
Replacing conventional welding
by mechanical connection based
on tube forming operations
*Patent pending

24. R&D Projects (concluded) – SPIF
Challenge:
Produce functional prototypes without tooling investment.
Conventional approach
Production of conventional tools for prototypes
production.
MCG Approach:
Depending on part geometry we have the two options:
SPIF and laser-cut
SPIF, laser cutting and conventional stamping tools.

25. R&D Projects (concluded) – Max Nesting
Challenge:
Reduce raw material consumption to
the theoretical minimum with no
additional blanking operation.
Conventional approach
Reduce raw material consumption
with blanking operation
MCG Approach:
MCG MaxNesting synthesizes
blanking + stamping in one
operation

26. R&D Projects (concluded) – OMNIDEA
Following the collaboration with aeronautics company Omnidea, MCG mind for
metal as his partner was represented at the 50th Le Bourget Salon Avionics
held between 17 and 23 June 2013 in Paris.
Goal: the production of pressure vessels in high performance aluminum
(aeronautical use), with subsequent filament winding of composite fibers in
order to withstand the very high pressures required. According to the current
project plan, these reservoirs will be qualified for use in space propulsion
systems ion the new generation of satellites and Space Vehicles.

27. R&D Projects (on going) – REELCOOP
http://www.reelcoop.com/partners
REELCOOP (REnewable ELectricity COOPeration)
is a EU/FP7 funded project aiming to develop
renewable electricity generation technologies and
promoting cooperation between EU Partner
Countries and Mediterranean Partner Countries,
which started in 1 September 2013, with a
duration of 4 years.
What is REELCOOP (in a nutshell)
• development, construction and testing of a building
integrated PV system (with ventilated facades), a
hybrid (solar/biomass) micro-cogeneration ORC
system, and a hybrid concentrating solar / biomass
mini-power plant
• organisation of Workshops on Renewable
Electricity technologies (4, one every year) open to
junior researchers and outside public
• technology transfer and dissemination regarding
the developed technologies

28. R&D Projects (on going) – LATCH
LIGHTWEIGHT THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES
Non Disclosed Information
Partnership with MOLIPOREX and INEGI
Objective: To develop and integrate new materials unidirectional
thermoplastic matrix and its associated technologies
Materialize the construction of a prototype of an automobile structural
member
The consortium will test new materials and processes with a view to
their suitability and application component to develop in order to match
their capabilities mechanical performance with a significant reduction of
actual weight

29. New Investments @ MCG

30. New investments
new laser cutting machine on Metal 3
TRUMPF | TruLaser 1030

31. 2,7m spherical working volume
Accuracy ±0,041mm
Software: Cam 2, Polyworks Inspector,
Geomatic, Geomatic (reverse engineering)
Smart Sensor Technology: Sensors warn
against factors that compromise
performance
Internal Counterbalance: Provides
comfortable, stress-free usage
Temperature Sensors: Allow the Arm to
react to thermal variations for maximum
portability and accuracy
New investments
Scan Arm
Faro Edge

32. New investments
Simulation Software
AutoForm

33. NEW PLANT - PRESS SHOP
3.300 ton Transfer Press
Project: 27072
“Sistema de Incentivos à Inovação“
Eligible investment: 4.639.936,52 €
Repayable incentive: 2.477.042,15 €