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Contact tips reduce downtime for tip changeovers
- Dec 5, 2017
- Consumables
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Tregaskiss has introduced TOUGH LOCK™ HDP contact tips, designed to extend contact tip life in pulsed GMAW applications. Engineered with an alloy that provides high resistance to wear and arc erosion, the contact tips last six to 10 times longer than copper and chrome zirconium tips, according to...
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SMS to supply production planning system to Nucor Steel Gallatin
- Dec 5, 2017
- Shop Management
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SMS group has announced that Nucor Steel Gallatin, Ghent, Ky., has commissioned the company to supply an X-Pact® MES 4.0 production planning system for the pickling and galvanizing line Nucor ordered recently. The production planning system, which features modular, extendible structures, can be...
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MW Industries launches MW Aerospace Solutions
- Dec 5, 2017
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MW Industries, a provider of highly engineered springs, couplings, specialty fasteners, and machined parts in Rosemont, Ill., has launched MW Aerospace Solutions to help address the specific needs of Tier 1 and OEMs in the aerospace and defense industries. MW Aerospace Solutions designs and...
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Laboratory Testing hires senior fracture mechanics manager
- Dec 5, 2017
- Testing and Measuring
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Laboratory Testing Inc., Hatfield, Pa., has named Dr. Matthew A. Adler as senior fracture mechanics manager. In this role, he oversees the fracture mechanics lab and Fracture Technology Associates (FTA), including FTA fracture mechanics test systems and software. Adler has more than a decade of...
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Fairlead Integrated builds Virginia manufacturing facility
- Dec 5, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
Fairlead Integrated has started construction on a 40,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in Virginia Beach, Va. The company reports the building will increase its manufacturing footprint and allow the firm to prepare for increased demand from military customers for new hardware and software. The new...
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CWA gives $14,000 to Ontario high school for welding/fabricating equipment
- Dec 5, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
The Canadian Welders Association (CWA) has awarded $14,000 to Almaguin Highlands Secondary School in Ontario for the purchase of new equipment for its manufacturing technology program. With the funding, the school has purchased two multipurpose welding machines, a plasma cutter, a box and pan...
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New version of ERP and business software released
- Dec 5, 2017
- Shop Management
- Product Release
Macola Software has introduced Macola 10.6, the newest release of its ERP and business software. Targeted at mobile users, the software offers improved functionality across multiple devices, especially tablets. It is designed to allow users to access key data wherever they work, with real-time...
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AP&T receives award for forming high-strength aluminum
- Dec 5, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- News Release
Sweden-based AP&T, with a U.S. location in Monroe, N.C., has received the 2017 Quality Innovation Award from SIQ — Swedish Institute for Quality for its technology for forming high-strength aluminum. The committee of judges shared the following justification for its decision: “The new...
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Still Building America—Spreading the message about the welding trade
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- Dec 5, 2017
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If you think only men are influenced by their welder fathers to become welders, you’re wrong. Meet Elizabeth Stanton, who was captivated by watching her dad weld and decided to make the trade her career.
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Rockford Systems announces 2018 industrial machine safeguarding seminars
- Dec 5, 2017
- Safety
- News Release
Rockford Systems LLC has released its 2018 machine safeguarding seminar schedule. The 2.5-day seminars, held in Rockford, Ill., and taught by machine safeguarding expert Roger Harrison, focus on interpretation of performance language found in the OSHA 29 CFR and ANSI B-11 standards and cover basic...
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zSpace, Mimbus partner to provide vocational training for welders
- Dec 5, 2017
- Arc Welding
- News Release
Mixed-reality education provider zSpace, Sunnyvale, Calif., has partnered with Mimbus, a provider of vocational training tools, to offer a new welding application and hand-held simulator for welders and boilermakers. Called Wave NG, the application uses zSpace’s mixed-reality environment to give...
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Wildeck receives Most Valuable Supplier Award
- Dec 5, 2017
- Materials Handling
- News Release
Waukesha, Wis.-based material handling equipment and safety products manufacturer Wildeck Inc. has earned the prestigious Most Valuable Supplier Award for 2018 from the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA). According to MHEDA, the award recognizes companies that have...
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Hexagon Mfg. Intelligence to host opening event at California HeSolution Center
- Dec 5, 2017
- Testing and Measuring
- News Release
Hexagon Mfg. Intelligence, North Kingstown, R.I., a provider of metrology and manufacturing systems, will host a grand opening at its new Hexagon HeSolution Center in Irvine, Calif., at 11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2018. The 15,500-sq.-ft. facility is the company's second Solution Center located in...
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Fairmont Supply adds two new companies
- Dec 5, 2017
- Metals/Materials
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Washington, Pa.-based Fairmont Supply Co., a distributor of industrial MRO supplies, has announced that Industrial Pipe & Supply, Omaha, Neb., and Industrial Pipe & Valve, Portland, Ore., have joined the Fairmont Supply family of companies. The two companies supply pipes, valves, and fittings to...
Acromil expands with profiles, boring mills
- Dec 5, 2017
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Acromil Corp., City of Industry, Calif., a primary supplier of complex structural components and assemblies to the aerospace and defense industries, has ordered two Cincinnati wide-range titanium profilers and a Giddings & Lewis horizontal boring mill from Fives as the start of a two-phase...
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