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For the moment, announced price hikes on flat-rolled steel have stopped the recent slide in prices.
Orders are being taken for two new 3D printers from FELIXprinters, the Pro L and Pro XL. The large-area additive manufacturing systems were designed with build volumes of up to 144 liters. The Pro L builds parts measuring 300 by 400 by 600 mm, and the XL’s build chamber measures 600 by 400 by...
Alsip, Ill.-based Admiral Steel celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2019. The company offers a variety of high-carbon, alloy, and specialty steels that meet quality standards such as aircraft-quality and AMS specs. The firm also offers processing services to create steel products to customer...
Pittsburgh-based United States Steel Corp. has announced the restart of construction on an electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking facility at its Tubular Operations in Fairfield, Ala. U. S. Steel previously initiated construction of the EAF in March 2015 and suspended construction in December 2015...
The Metal Powder Industries Federation’s (MPIF) Awards Committee has announced the recipients of the 2019 MPIF Distinguished Service to Powder Metallurgy (PM) Award that recognizes individuals who have actively served the North American PM industry for at least 25 years and, in the minds of their...
Orbex has introduced an orbital launch vehicle designed to deliver small satellites into Earth’s orbit. According to the Forres, Scotland, company, its Prime launcher will be powered by the world’s largest 3D-printed monolithic rocket engine. The engine was printed on an SLM®800 powder-bed...
President Donald Trump uses an executive order to try and get governmental agencies to boost purchasing of domestic metals for federally funded projects.
An Indiana machine builder helped a boat company simplify and speed the process of producing the tooling used to make a fiberglass-boat mold. Typically, a tool─referred to as a plug─is fabricated from one of a variety of materials, glassed over, faired, and mirror-finished. White River Marine...
Schmolz + Bickenbach has expanded its presence in the South American market with a new site in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offering long steel products. The company already has offices, warehouses, and services centers in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. Tool steel, stainless steel, and engineering steel...
Cortec® Corp. has introduced VpCI®-329 D ES, a ready-to-use spray providing rust prevention for metals in indoor and outdoor sheltered conditions, including coils, gears, spindles, and any metal parts that require a light coat of oil for further processing and shipment. The spray contains Vapor...
The speed, geometry, and surface-quality limitations of additive manufacturing processes are linked to their reliance on material layering, say researchers at UC Berkeley who’ve developed a new method for 3D-printing parts. Instead of building layer upon layer, the Berkeley AM method concurrently...
Fort Worth, Texas-based AZZ Inc., a provider of metal coating services, welding systems, specialty electrical equipment, and highly engineered services, has reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Tennessee Galvanizing Inc., a metal coatings company in Jasper, Tenn. Tennessee Galvanizing has...
Alro Steel, a provider of cut-to-size metals and plastics, has purchased certain assets of Riverfront Steel, a metal distributor in Cincinnati.
Alro Steel will operate from Riverfront’s 115,000-sq.-ft. facility.
To help drive adoption of 3D printing beyond prototyping, Henkel and Origin have signed an agreement to combine Henkel´s materials expertise with Origin´s printer and software know-how. The two companies will focus on additive mass production for medical, automotive, and other industrial...
January’s jobs report released on Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that U.S. companies added around 304,000 jobs last month with manufacturing creating 13,000 jobs. This coincided with positive numbers from January's ISM report, which registered a 56.6 percent PMI. Metal-working sectors benefited from manufacturing expansion, including those in fabricated metal products and primary metals.
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
start your free subscriptionIn this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
The Association of Metal Processors and Distributors (AMPD) serves the needs of professionals in the steel distribution industry.
Follow the link below to find an AMPD member steel supplier near you.