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Bending and Forming - Page 65
Schwarze-Robitec delivers tube bending machine to ELB-Form
- Feb 28, 2020
- News Release
Schwarze-Robitec has delivered a fully electric, multiradius CNC 80 E TB MR tube bending machine to Vandans, Austria-based ELB-Form for cold and hot tube forming. The company forms to extremely tight tolerances, even with complex tube geometries for confined spaces, for the production of exhaust...
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Equipment investment provides long-term payoff for metal fabricator
- Feb 28, 2020
- News Release
SituationWhen Chris Curtis took over Elkhart, Ind.-based RC Industries in 1994, the company was in disarray. Fresh off an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he immediately identified a few reasons for the company’s stagnation: no capital investment; poor, unmotivated...
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Larson Tool & Stamping receives Workforce Training Fund grant
- Feb 20, 2020
- News Release
Larson Tool & Stamping Co., a supplier of precision metal stamping parts and components in Attleboro, Mass., has received $171,500 from the state’s Workforce Training Fund to train 61 workers, and it expects to create five additional jobs by 2021. The company will focus on lean and leadership...
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Die Science: Recognizing the need for tooling changes
- By Art Hedrick
- Feb 19, 2020
- Article
Whether caused by process failure or die design error, stamping problems often require tooling changes, but they must make financial sense.
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Trump expands tariffs on steel and aluminum products
- By Stephen Barlas
- Feb 17, 2020
- Blog Post
President Donald Trump recently extended tariffs to not just imported steel and aluminum, but also certain products made from those imported materials, such as automotive stampings, further complicating the metalworking supply chains.
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Ask the Stamping Expert: Helpful tips for tool and die apprentices
- By Thomas Vacca
- Feb 13, 2020
- Article
Newcomers and trainees in the tooling industry only know what they know, and that can cause many problems, including wasted time, damaged equipment and workpieces, and even injury to themselves and others. Thomas Vacca offers safety tips and practical advice for beginners.
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Bunting names industry manager, master rep
- Feb 12, 2020
- News Release
Bunting, a designer and manufacturer of magnetic separation, metal detection, and conveying equipment, has appointed Josh Ewertz as industry manager for its metal stamping and metalworking division. The company also has named Chris Heming, co-owner of the Canadian Copacking Group/CPG Automation and...
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Ermaksan delivers three servo electric press brakes
- Feb 11, 2020
- News Release
Ermaksan, Des Plaines, Ill., has installed three new FX series servo electric press brakes at a factory in Milwaukee. The environmentally friendly bending machines offer low energy consumption while maintaining high precision and speed, the company reports. Their belt system technology eliminates...
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SEYI launches customer testimonial videos
- Feb 11, 2020
- News Release
Press manufacturer SEYI America Inc. has launched several videos on its YouTube channel. The video clips show the challenges that manufacturers had and the results they experienced once they implemented SEYI...
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HPA-P manual press brake from Kaast offers numerous options
- Feb 11, 2020
- Product Release
Kaast Machine Tools offers the HPA-P hydraulic workshop press brake. With a footprint of 7 by 4 ft., the machine is suitable for small bending jobs; straightening of beams, shafts, axles, and profiles; removal and replacement of bearings, pins, and bushings; and load tests. The press brake offers...
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The press brake questions keep coming
- By Steve Benson
- Feb 11, 2020
- Article
Press brake guru Steve Benson answers a list of reader questions regarding bend functions, equipment, tooling, and calculating the inside bend radius.
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AIDA-America announces staff additions, promotions
- Feb 7, 2020
- News Release
AIDA-America, a metal stamping press manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio, has announced several staffing changes. Dale Harshman, who joined the company’s mechanical assembly team in March 2016, has been promoted to team leader, mechanical assembly. Gustavo Canchola has been hired as the AIDA de Mexico...
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HS MetalWorks expands production capacity with addition of Arkansas plant
- Feb 7, 2020
- News Release
HS Mfg. LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hickory Springs Mfg. Co., Hickory, N.C., has shifted the reporting structure of its Fort Smith, Ark., plant to its expanding HS MetalWorks division to broaden its capabilities. The plant will continue to serve the transportation industry, and the additional...
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Adient to expand in Tennessee
- Feb 5, 2020
- News Release
Plymouth, Mich.-based Adient, a manufacturer of automotive seating, has announced plans to expand its plant in Lexington, Tenn. The $23.5 million expansion is expected to create 330 jobs. The company has 220 manufacturing and assembly plants...
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Shiloh Industries to power five facilities with 100% renewable energy
- Feb 5, 2020
- News Release
Shiloh Industries, an environmentally focused global automotive supplier, has joined DTE Energy’s MIGreenPower program, committing to power three Michigan facilities with 100% Michigan-made clean energy. The move will offset the equivalent of nearly 4,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions. Through the...
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In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
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