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Schnitzer named to World’s Most Ethical Company list
- Mar 13, 2017
- Metals/Materials
- News Release
Portland, Ore.-based metals recycler Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as a 2017 World’s Most Ethical Company®. This is the third consecutive year the firm has been recognized. Since 2007 Ethisphere has recognized those companies that influence and...
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Zirconia-alumina abrasive disc delivers long tool life
- Mar 13, 2017
- Finishing
- Product Release
Pferd Inc. has introduced the POLIFAN® Z SG-Power flap disc. It features product enhancements that deliver up to 236 percent longer tool life than conventional flap discs, states the company. The zirconia-alumina abrasive delivers optimum stock removal on high-powered angle grinders at high...
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Woven Metal Products celebrates 50th anniversary
- Mar 13, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
Woven Metal Products, a fabrication facility in Alvin, Texas, marks 50 years in business in 2017. Richard Hillenburg established the company in 1967 as a manufacturer of wire mesh internals for Dow Chemical worldwide. As Dow’s products changed over the next 13 years, WMP began manufacturing...
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USITC votes to extend trade orders on aluminum extrusions from China
- Mar 13, 2017
- Metals/Materials
- News Release
U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), Washington, D.C., has voted unanimously to extend the existing antidumping and countervailing duties orders on aluminum extrusions from China. With the affirmative vote in the Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, the commission recognized that the orders have...
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SMS group to deliver extrusion press to UACJ Automotive Whitehall
- Mar 13, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
Düsseldorf, Germany-based SMS group has received an order to supply a HybrEx®25 extrusion press to UACJ Automotive Whitehall Industries, Ludington, Mich. The press is the first machine in the series to be delivered to North America. The press’s hybrid drive technology reduces energy consumption...
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MultiCam launches iPlasmaCNC brand
- Mar 13, 2017
- Plasma Cutting
- News Release
MultiCam has launched a new family brand called iPlasmaCNC, which manufactures mechanized CNC plasma cutting systems in Texas. Designed for entry-level to midsize metal fabrication shops, the systems employ hand-held ExtraTech CNCs, a Windows®-based PC, and the Hypertherm Powermax plasma series....
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New plasma class cuts mild steel, stainless, aluminum
- Mar 13, 2017
- Plasma Cutting
- Product Release
Hypertherm has introduced a new class of plasma called X-Definition™. It is available for the first time in a 300-amp plasma system called the XPR300™ for high-definition cutting of mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum. Laboratory testing shows ISO-9013 Range 2 cut quality on thin mild...
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Kloeckner Metals to install new PVD processing equipment
- Mar 13, 2017
- Metals/Materials
- News Release
Metals distributor and processor Kloeckner Metals will install new physical vapor deposition (PVD) processing equipment at its Cincinnati site that will enable the coloring of stainless steel and certain aluminum materials domestically. The equipment will handle stainless sheets up to 60 in. wide...
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McArthur Sheet Metal Works completes expansion
- Mar 13, 2017
- Shop Management
- News Release
McArthur Sheet Metal Works, a fourth-generation family-owned custom steel fabrication shop, has completed a $1.2 million expansion of its facility in South Sioux City, Neb. The company expects to increase its staff from 10 to 13 as a result of the expansion. The 6,000-sq.-ft. addition, which houses...
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Mitutoyo America announces organizational changes
- Mar 13, 2017
- Testing and Measuring
- News Release
Mitutoyo America Corp. (MAC), a provider of measurement and inspection systems in Aurora, Ill., has promoted Matt Dye to president and Doug Adkins to executive vice president. Shigeyuki Sasaki, who over the past 10 years has served as vice president, executive vice president, and most recently...
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Conveyor offers accuracy for automation applications
- Mar 13, 2017
- Materials Handling
- Product Release
Dorner has introduced the redesigned 2200 series Precision Move conveyor, designed for movement of product at specific times, distances, and intervals that are critical for components in the manufacturing and packaging of small to medium-sized parts. According to the company, the conveyor offers...
Roll benders can produce pipes more than 59 ft. long
- Mar 13, 2017
- Tube and Pipe Production
- Product Release
Faccin SpA offers the HAV-2P series of NC pipe mill bending rolls for pipe production. The machines are constructed with sturdy electrowelded structures and fitted with three rolls in thermally treated steel alloys. The rolls are moved independently—the top roll moves vertically, the lower rolls...
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Die Science: Finding the true cause of poor-quality parts
- By Art Hedrick
- Mar 13, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Article
As a professional consultant, I find it both amusing and frustrating how many times dies are accused of being “bad.” Certainly, poor-quality dies exist. In my career I’ve seen dies that are well-engineered, precision tools, and I’ve seen dies that might as well have been made from sawdust...
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Mill/turn control offers probing cycle option for 3-D shapes
- Mar 10, 2017
- Machining
- Product Release
Heidenhain’s TNC 640 mill/turn control is available with the Cycle 444 3-D probing cycle for inspecting free-form surfaces that pose measurement challenges. The cycle checks one point on the surface of each workpiece. The contact point is determined by a vector that is normal to the 3-D surface....
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MSCI supports aluminum industry’s dumping action against China
- Mar 10, 2017
- Metals/Materials
- News Release
M. Robert Weidner III, president/CEO of the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), Rolling Meadows, Ill., has reacted to the Aluminum Association’s antidumping and countervailing duty petition regarding imports of certain aluminum foil from China. “The Metals Service Center Institute and its...
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