Content tagged with "plate-bending"
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September 1, 2009
Unique brake setup streamlines thick plate bending
Figure 1 Thick, high-tensile-strength plate is bent with a specialized tool. The material is bent to no more than a 176-degree inside angle for each bend. The CNC press brake at Peterson Pacific Corp. would make people with bending know-how stop in their tracks. In the brake sits a... Read more...
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August 26, 2008
Ultrafabrication, ultraexpansion
Figure 1 Ultra employs more than 200 welders, all trained for heavy-plate fabrication. That sums up Ultra Machine & Fabrication, a small company just three years ago. Today it employs more than 375, and over the past 24 months, managers sank some serious money into capital equipment: two... Read more...
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May 13, 2008
Diversity a blessing for Blessing
Blessing Industries fabricated many of the components for this vertical drilling machine used by the utility, mining, and construction sectors for highway maintenance and other applications. Filing bankruptcy teaches hard lessons, and managers at one Iowa metal fabricator used those lessons... Read more...
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January 15, 2008
Heavy bending
Figure 1 A double-beam folding machine can bend heavy-gauge material both in the positive and negative directions. A 4- by 4-foot, 1/4-inch-thick plate can weigh more than 113 pounds. Even a 4- by 4-ft., 3/16-in.-thick plate can weigh more than 85 lbs. Such weights can create challenges on... Read more...
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