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Bending and Forming - Page 43
- From The Fabricator
What happens when you don’t design for the press brake?
- By Steve Benson
- Apr 23, 2021
- Article
Bending guru Steve Benson shows what can happen when minimum flange lengths aren’t taken into account while designing for a press brake operation.
- From The Fabricator
SAF adds column cover roller machine
- Apr 22, 2021
- News Release
Atlanta-based SAF, a global metals distributor, fabricator, and finisher, is enhancing its column cover fabrication capabilities to produce longer, taller covers. With its recently acquired, custom-made version of the Parmigiani VBH4030/6 roller machine, the company now can produce conical,...
- From The Fabricator
Ford Mustang Mach-E earns Top Safety Pick Award
- Apr 22, 2021
- News Release
The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E has earned a Top Safety Pick Award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety after finishing all six IIHS crashworthiness tests with good ratings—the top possible results in those categories. The six crashworthiness tests are driver- and passenger-side small...
- From The Fabricator
Ask the Stamping Expert: What designs are available for in-die forming?
- By Thomas Vacca
- Apr 22, 2021
- Article
Tom Vacca presents four in-die forming designs for tweaking bends while the tool is in the press.
- From The Fabricator
Coe Press Equipment names director of engineering
- Apr 21, 2021
- News Release
Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, Mich., a provider of coil handling and servo roll feed equipment, has hired Blaine Lingenfelter as its new director of engineering. Lingenfelter has spent nearly 30 years on the engineering side of manufacturing for a variety of Tier 1 global automotive...
- From The Fabricator
Bollinger Shipyards acquires Gulf Island Fabrication’s Shipyard facilities
- Apr 21, 2021
- News Release
Bollinger Shipyards, a designer and builder of steel military and commercial vessels in Lockport, La., has acquired Gulf Island Fabrication Inc.’s Shipyard facilities in Houma, La., expanding Bollinger’s new construction and repair capacity and capabilities and giving it access to a larger...
- From The Fabricator
Kohler Machinery opens in Utah
- Apr 19, 2021
- News Release
Kohler Machinery, the first North American office of Kohler Maschinenbau GmbH, has opened at the Salt Lake City, Utah, location of its parent company, Wintersteiger Inc. Wintersteiger AG acquired majority shares of Kohler Maschinenbau GmbH in 2011. Kohler develops and produces part leveling...
- From The Fabricator
LSP Industries’ B Coater imparts proper amount of lubricant to stamping blanks
- Apr 15, 2021
- Product Release
The B Coater from LSP Industries lubricates blanks for the stamping industry while reducing lubricant consumption by as much as 70% and increasing productivity by as much as 30% over hand lubricating, says the company. The stainless steel unit is available in six sizes to handle blanks from about...
- From The Fabricator
How do titanium, stainless steel grain structures affect part forming?
- By Keith Grayeb
- Apr 15, 2021
- Article
The selection of stainless steel and aluminum alloys often is centered around strength, ductility, elongation, and hardness. These properties indicate how a metal’s building blocks behave in response to an applied load. Benefits can be gained by peering one layer deeper into the grain structure that governs a metal’s mechanical behavior.
- From The Fabricator
Beckwood delivers 400-ton titanium hot-forming press to Midwest aerospace supplier
- Apr 14, 2021
- News Release
Beckwood Press Co., St. Louis, a manufacturer of custom hydraulic and servo-electric presses and automation systems, has delivered a 400-ton hydraulic hot-forming press to a supplier of titanium aerospace structural components in the Midwest. The press features 48- by 96-in. platens capable of...
- From The Fabricator
Multipress names Norcal Machinery as distributor
- Apr 13, 2021
- News Release
Multipress, a Pacific Press Holdings company, has named Norcal Machinery, Oakland, Calif., as an authorized distributor, serving customers primarily in the western U.S.
Multipress, formerly known as Denison, is a provider of bench, C-frame, and four-post hydraulic press equipment.
- From The Fabricator
Panel bending helps open operational bottlenecks in fab shop
- By Jamie Sims
- Apr 13, 2021
- Article
The bending operation typically is a bottleneck in the production process. Panel bending technology can help metal fabricators streamline this process as long as the application and annual usage for the part mix are a good match. The technology can increase manufacturing capacity and velocity because setup time is cut significantly.
- From The Fabricator
Design for stamping manufacturability begins with function
- By Fred Simonson
- Apr 12, 2021
- Article
The process of stamping parts from the initial request for quote (RFQ), through the tooling design/build process, and finally, to the stamping production can be a long and winding road with a large gap between what is designed and what can be manufactured. Knowing a feature’s function during the tool tryout process—or better yet at the time of RFQ—can help a tooling house wring out cost and smooth an operation. Which costly features and dimensional criteria may be unnecessarily complex or overdimensioned?
- From The Fabricator
Electric vehicle market presents opportunities for sheet metal fabricators
- By Bill Frahm
- Apr 8, 2021
- Article
Electric vehicles need improved range to ensure wider acceptance, and one of the biggest influences on range is vehicle weight. Sheet metal suppliers can fill the need for lightweight components.
- From The Fabricator
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