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Custom-made presses offered
- Apr 13, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Product Release
Litostroj Ravne d.o.o. offers custom-made Ravne hydraulic, mechanical, and servo presses with 10 to 40,000 kN of nominal force. With table lengths up to 26 ft., the presses are suitable for sheet cold metal forming, hot forming, compressing powdered material, and forming polymer material. The...
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Cordless battery for power tools cools while recharging
- Apr 12, 2017
- Power Tools
- Product Release
Festool offers Airstream battery technology, which it says can reduce charging times by up to 60 percent. The charging system pulls cooled air through the air intakes of the battery pack and channels airflow through the cells and into the charger, while heat from both the battery and charger are...
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Camfil APC waives fee for comprehensive dust collection training program
- Apr 12, 2017
- Safety
- News Release
Jonesboro, Ark.-based Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC), a manufacturer of dust, mist and fume collection equipment, will waive the $1,195 fee for its training programs scheduled for June 6-7 and Sept. 12-13 as part of its commitment to industrial safety. The two-day training sessions include...
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Ace Industries appoints new VPs
- Apr 12, 2017
- Materials Handling
- News Release
Material handling equipment provider Ace Industries Inc., Atlanta, has announced the appointment of two vice presidents. Claude Owens II has been named vice president of operations. In this role, he is responsible for global services, manufacturing, quality, engineering, safety, and technical...
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Manufacturing dashboards help fabricators visualize data on shop floor
- Apr 12, 2017
- Shop Management
- Product Release
Global Shop Solutions has developed new manufacturing dashboards that help manufacturers visualize their data anywhere on the shop floor and throughout the business. The line includes more than a dozen dashboards that organize and display data from open sales and work orders to shipping schedules,...
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Burtek Enterprises to auction equipment April 26-27
- Apr 12, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
Burtek Enterprises Inc. will sell the manufacturing equipment at its Chesterfield, Mich., operations by auction on April 26-27, 2017. Included in the auction will be CNC vertical machining centers, Haas CNC boring mills, CNC press brakes, FANUC welding robots, laser trackers, 3-D printer, Cummins...
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Discovering your real key performance indicators
- By Bill Frahm
- Apr 12, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Looking for outside expertise to help shape shop performance metrics can be a good idea, but a manufacturer needs to ask the right questions before committing to a consultant.
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Shimco wins Cambridge Chamber of Commerce 2016 Business Excellence Award
- Apr 12, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
Cambridge, Ont.-based Shimco, a manufacturer of precision parts and gap-management products, has been named New Venture of the Year in the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce 2016 Business Excellence Awards. The awards recognize businesses and individuals that have demonstrated a significant and...
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Virtual reality technology helps improve end effector production accuracy
- Apr 12, 2017
- Shop Management
- Product Release
DESTACO has introduced its new Accelerate® Vision virtual reality digital design solutions tool. It is designed to work in the production of the company’s Accelerate® Collection end effector components, which can be assembled into custom systems for most pressroom stamping applications. By...
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Wall Colmonoy names operations director, European headquarters
- Apr 12, 2017
- Consumables
- News Release
Wall Colmonoy, a manufacturer of surfacing and brazing products, castings, and engineered components in Madison Heights, Mich., has appointed Robert Davies as operations director for its European headquarters in Pontardawe, Swansea, Wales. Davies joined the company in March 2015 with 14 years of...
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System prevents lift operation by unauthorized personnel
- Apr 12, 2017
- Materials Handling
- Product Release
Wildeck Inc. has introduced a new LiftLok™ VRC safety system to prevent lift operation by untrained or unauthorized personnel. A basic key switch or a 10-key push-button digital keypad can be added to any of the manufacturer’s mechanical or hydraulically operated vertical reciprocating...
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Heidenhain helps sponsor Diabetic Alert Dog from Ron Santo Foundation
- Apr 11, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
When Johnathon Wojciechowski of Bensenville, Ill., was seven years old, he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Having recently started high school at Fenton, he has received a highly trained Diabetic Alert Dog (D.A.D.) from the Ron & Vicki Santo Diabetic Alert Dog Foundation, with partial...
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Circular saw offers servo cutting, servo feeding
- Apr 11, 2017
- Sawing
- Product Release
Beka-Mak Makine Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. offers the BMDO 80 CS circular saw. It features a one-piece, high-strength steel blade; servo cutting; and servo feeding.
The blade, which is thinner than a carbide blade, can be sharpened about 25 times.
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Anvil Intl. acquires AFCON
- Apr 11, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
Anvil® Intl., a manufacturer of pipe fittings, pipe hangers, and piping support systems in Exeter, N.H., has acquired AFCON®, a provider of patented fire protection pipe hangers and seismic bracing products in S. El Monte, Calif. "As a brand of Anvil, the AFCON product will reach a worldwide...
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Sandvik Materials Technology to supply tubes for Leviathan gas field
- Apr 11, 2017
- Metals/Materials
- News Release
Sandvik Materials Technology, Stockholm, a developer and producer of advanced stainless steels and other high-performance materials, has secured the contract to be the sole provider of stainless steel umbilical tubes for the Leviathan gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel. The order,...
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