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Hydroforming - Page 2
Mills Products adds staff to engineering department
- Oct 31, 2016
- News Release
Athens, Tenn.-based Mills Products Inc., a contract manufacturer producing hydroformed, roll formed, and tube stamped metal parts for OEMs and suppliers in the appliance and automotive industries, has added two employees to its engineering department. Jason Watson joins the company as a quality...
Roof structure system by Vari-Form saves weight on 2016 Nissan Titan
- Aug 8, 2016
- News Release
Vari-Form, Livonia, Mich., has designed and produced a hydroformed steel roof structure for the 2016 Nissan Titan® pickup as part of the company’s Hydroform-Intensive Body Structures (HIBS) strategy. According to Vari-Form, the part helped Nissan meet its targets for roof strength and crash...
Software offers springback compensation in tube hydroforming
- Feb 8, 2016
- Product Release
AutoForm Engineering GmbH offers AutoForm Hydro 2016 software for rapid tool design for tube hydroforming processes and simulation of these processes. It includes new functionalities for springback compensation after bending and hydroforming operations. The bending compensation is achieved...
Mills Products earns Inventor’s Award for hydroformed heavy truck handle
- Jan 6, 2016
- News Release
Metal fabricator Mills Products, Athens, Tenn., has won the 2015 Paccar Inventor’s Award for a hydroformed stainless steel truck handle. The grab handle competed against submissions from Paccar’s global staff of 22,000 in the annual competition to identify the most inventive project of the...
Deep-draw hydroforming presses updated with integrated tool change
- Nov 18, 2015
- Product Release
Beckwood Press Co. has introduced the 20-10-10BD, 25-10-12BD, and 32-10-12BD deep-draw hydroforming presses. Updates to the pressure-containment system have resulted in improved cycle times while maintaining the company’s “infinite life” structural standards. In addition, each deep-draw...
Beckwood to supply deep-draw sheet hydroforming press to LLNL
- Sep 21, 2015
- News Release
Beckwood Press Co., St. Louis, will manufacture a Triform 20-10-10BD deep-draw sheet hydroforming press for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, Calif., an R&D institution for science and technology applied to national security. The press will accommodate a 20-in. maximum...
Vari-Form joins Crowne Group LLC
- Aug 4, 2015
- News Release
Vari-Form, Troy, Mich., a manufacturer of lightweight, hydroformed automotive parts, has announced that the company has been acquired by Cleveland-based Crowne Group LLC. Vari-Form has three manufacturing locations in North America, a technical center in Strathroy, Ont., Canada, and a nonunion...
Deep-draw sheet hydroformer offers cycle times less than 30 sec.
- Jun 25, 2015
- Product Release
Beckwood has introduced the Triform 20-10-10BD, a 10,000-PSI, deep-draw sheet hydroforming press. It features a 20-in.-dia. maximum blank size and 10-in. draw depth capacity. With cycle times of less than 30 sec. and a quick tool change system, the compact press allows manufacturers to form...
Deep-draw sheet hydroforming press handles up to 20-in.-dia. blanks
- Jun 18, 2015
- Product Release
Beckwood has expanded its Triform product line with the addition of a 10,000-PSI deep-draw sheet hydroforming press, featuring a 20-in.-dia. maximum blank size, 10-in. draw depth capacity, and an integrated tool change system for fast changeover. The model 20-10-10BD offers cycle times less than...
Vari-Form named Supply Chain Management Supplier of the Year by FCA US
- Jun 16, 2015
- News Release
Vari-Form, Troy, Mich., has been selected by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) US LLC as 2015 Supply Chain Management Supplier of the Year. Recent projects include an upper cross member for the 2015 Jeep® Cherokee, which employed proprietary pressure-sequence hydroforming technology. The...
Design, prototype, production services offered for hydroformed parts
- May 19, 2015
- Product Release
Excella Technologies provides part and tool design, prototype, and production services for hydroformed and other tubular parts. The company focuses on fluid-carrying and structural parts for such industries as agriculture, construction, commercial truck, and automotive, using stainless, mild, and...
Fluid cell sheet hydroforming press made for low-volume, high-mix applications
- Apr 3, 2015
- Product Release
Beckwood offers the Triform model 2496-5BD fluid cell sheet hydroforming press for forming a variety of part sizes in low-volume, high-mix environments. It offers a maximum of 5,000 PSI of evenly distributed forming pressure. The press comes with a single bed shuttle or dual shuttles with front and...
Vari-Form announces partnerships
- Mar 17, 2015
- News Release
Vari-Form, a provider of pressure-sequence hydroforming in Troy, Mich., has announced several international joint-venture partnerships. In Europe, the company is working with joint-venture partner EMARC SpA of Piemonte, Italy, to design automotive products using EMARC manufacturing facilities in...
Mills Products to provide hydroformed desk legs for Steelcase
- Jan 5, 2015
- News Release
Brentwood, Tenn.-based metal fabricator Mills Products Inc. has been contracted to manufacture hydroformed desk legs for office furniture manufacturer Steelcase, Grand Rapids, Mich. The fixed-height and adjustable L-shaped and post desk legs are part of Steelcase’s modular c:scape office...
Mills Products creates metal track to move Carlex’s automotive glass
- Dec 3, 2014
- News Release
Mills Products Inc., Brentwood, Tenn., has begun manufacturing a glass track for Carlex, a Nashville-based Tier 1 supplier of automotive glass. Carlex marries its glass to Mills Products’ roll formed metal assemblies to create OEM mechanisms that move car windows up and down. Mills Products is...
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