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Articles tagged with "powder coatings"

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	Ask and you shall receive: Job shop tackles inexperience to offer finishing services By: Stephanie Vaughan, Contributing Writer Miller Welding & Machine isn't a typical job shop for a lot of reasons. This family-owned and -operated company, in business since 1963, employs almost everybody in the Miller family -- and tackled its complete inexperience in finishing by investing in a full powder coating and wet paint line in a new facility to serve its customers, who started demanding finishing services five years ago. Publish date: November 8, 2005 Tech cell: Finishing
	Nothing standard about this fab shop: The old approach isn't of interest to the new kid on the block, Seconn Fabrication--The FABRICATOR's 2008 Industry Award winner By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief Rob Marelli left a family-owned metal fabricating company four years ago with the intention of doing things his way. Joined by a loyal group of managers and employees, he's found success at Seconn Fabrication. In the short time the company has been open, it has earned revenues of $9 million. And the company has done this by doing things other metal fabricating competitors aren't. Publish date: February 12, 2008 Tech cell: Fab Stories
	Knockout punch: Hand-in-glove fit between application and process has Sanmina-SCI punching out profits By: Scot Stevens, Contributing Writer The system Sanmina-SCI uses to produce rails for Sun Microsystems' large servers is a key factor in Sanmina-SCI's competitiveness when it comes to processing a large, heavy-gauge, complet part, delivered in large volume on an as-needed basis for computer server systems and other similar applications. Publish date: November 8, 2005 Tech cell: Press Technology
	Imagination fabrication: To be a playground equipment fabricator, you gotta have game By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor BCI Burke, Fond du Lac, Wis., is the oldest playground and park and recreation equipment manufacturer in the country. As the company grew and its product offerings and colors multiplied, it found it needed to address problems with long leadtimes. Burke looked at every possibility for improvement, including processes improvements, inventory organization, manufacturing equipment purchases, and personnel productivity improvements, including crosstraining. Publish date: February 7, 2006 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	When a good tube bends bad: Array By: Tony Granelli Have you ever started with what you thought was a good tube, ended with a bad bend, and wondered where you took a wrong turn? Correcting for defects requires some detective work, and an understanding of the bending process. This article examines tube defects and offers fixes. Publish date: Array Tech cell: Array
	Understanding how rotary tube and pipe cutting works: Why 25-year-old technology is still around By: Joe Mashione Innovations and new developments in rotary tube and pipe cutting, such as high-speed cutting, minimal heat generation, special holding collets, and automatic loading, trim and sorting have reduced or eliminated time required for secondary operation, improved efficiency, and reduced costs. Publish date: March 7, 2006 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	Luminous aluminum makes light work: Meeting challenges unique to fabricating tubes into light posts By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal� Editor Hapco Aluminum Pole Products, Abingdon, Va., fabricates aluminum light posts that must be beautiful while standing up to wind, and the forces of nature. Publish date: October 10, 2006 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	When a good tube bends bad - Part I: How to Prevent Tube From Taking a Bad Turn By: Tony Granelli Have you ever started with what you thought was a good tube, ended with a bad bend, and wondered where you took a wrong turn? Correcting for defects requires some detective work, and an understanding of the bending process. This article examines tube defects and offers fixes. Publish date: March 7, 2006 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	When a good tube bends bad: Array By: Tony Granelli Have you ever started with what you thought was a good tube, ended with a bad bend, and wondered where you took a wrong turn? Correcting for defects requires some detective work, and an understanding of the bending process. This article examines tube defects and offers fixes. Publish date: Array Tech cell: Array
	When a good tube bends bad - Part II: How to prevent tube from taking a bad turn By: Tony Granelli Have you ever started with what you thought was a good tube, ended with a bad bend, and wondered where you took a wrong turn? Correcting for defects requires some detective work, and an understanding of the bending process. This article examines tube defects and offers fixes. Publish date: April 11, 2006 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Production