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Bending and Forming - Page 80
- From The Fabricator
Prima Power forms agreement with Gasparini
- May 10, 2019
- News Release
Prima Power has signed an agreement with Gasparini for the distribution of products in the Gasparini range with the Prima Power brand and colors. With this collaboration, Prima Power expands the range of its press brakes, combining the models of the servo-electric eP series, produced in the Prima...
- From The Fabricator
GM announces new manufacturing jobs coming to Ohio
- May 9, 2019
- News Release
General Motors Co. has announced it is creating more than 450 manufacturing jobs in three Ohio cities. The automaker also said it is in discussions with an Ohio-based company that could bring significant production and electric vehicle assembly jobs to the Lordstown Complex. Manufacturing...
- From The Fabricator
Toyotetsu goes live with Plex Systems in North America
- May 7, 2019
- News Release
Toyotetsu America Inc. (TTAI), Somerset, Ky., a metal stamping supplier to Toyota, Subaru, Nissan, and Mazda, now is running two North American facilities on the Plex Manufacturing Cloud® from Plex Systems®, a provider of cloud ERP and MES for manufacturing. Six more TTAI facilities will go live...
- From The Fabricator
SEYI Mexico hires sales manager
- May 7, 2019
- News Release
SEYI America Inc., a press manufacturer based in Tullahoma, Tenn., and Irvine, Calif., has announced the appointment of Bernardo Serna as sales manager in the SEYI Mexico office in Monterrey, Mexico. Serna is responsible for sales in several areas of Mexico, including the northeastern and...
- From The Fabricator
The rules of press brake tool selection
- By Paul LeTang
- May 2, 2019
- Article
In a perfect world, a press brake operator would choose a V-die opening that’s eight times the material thickness. But the world isn’t perfect.
- From The Fabricator
Royal Power Solutions opens assembly plant in Mexico
- May 2, 2019
- News Release
Carol Stream, Ill.-based Royal Power Solutions, a supplier of electrical power and signal distribution components for global vehicle and industrial applications, has opened an assembly plant in Querétaro, Mexico. The facility currently assembles automotive battery terminal systems, molded plastic...
- From The Fabricator
Majestic Industries announces production stamping capability
- May 1, 2019
- News Release
Macomb, Mich.-based Majestic Industries, a designer and builder of progressive stamping dies, has announced its ability to run production stampings for emergency offload, as well as short-term and long-term requirements for dies from 48 to 280 in. The company has seven stamping presses from 500 to...
- From The Fabricator
Hey, I’m only 2 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon
- By Kate Bachman
- May 1, 2019
- Blog Post
A photographer I hired recently met actor Kevin Bacon a couple of years ago--proving, once again, that we are all no more than 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.
- From The Fabricator
Schuler presents new blanking press at TechDay
- Apr 30, 2019
- News Release
At its headquarters in Göppingen, Germany, Schuler recently presented its new high-speed blanking press Smartline EV 3.8 for the production of interlocked motor cores, which will be delivered to the German company Waasner, and other systems for the era of e-mobility. More than 50 people took part...
- From The Fabricator
Trade war, tariffs ironies hit home with FCA layoffs
- By Kate Bachman
- Apr 29, 2019
- Blog Post
Sales of the Jeep Cherokee were up in the U.S. 41 percent in 2018 over 2017. Yet,the entire third shift at the Belvidere FCA plant where the vehicle is manufactured—comprising 1,400 people—will cease production May 1. Considering that the Jeep Cherokee is selling so well, why would the automaker cut production at the plant? China, again ...
- From The Fabricator
Achieving bending efficiencies with panel benders
Datum Storage Solutions Inc., Emigsville, Pa., and NSA Industries, St. Johnsbury, Vt., believe that panel bending has made a positive impact on their shop floor operations.
- From The Fabricator
Tooling Tech Group names CEO
- Apr 25, 2019
- News Release
Tooling Tech Group (TTG), Macomb, Mich., a provider of tools and assembly equipment, has named Lee Childers as CEO. He joined the company in 2018 as COO. Childers has 33 years of experience in developing business plans and growth strategies and leading operations for Tier 1 suppliers, most recently...
- From The Fabricator
Phoenix Specialty Mfg. names CEO
- Apr 24, 2019
- News Release
Phoenix Specialty Mfg. Co., Bamberg, S.C., a contract manufacturer of small stamped sheet metal parts such as shims, seals, gaskets, spacers, and washers, has appointed Russell Hurst III as CEO. With this appointment, the family-owned firm is now operating in its fourth generation. Hurst holds a...
- From The Additive Report
Two additive manufacturing companies separate themselves from the pack
- By Don Nelson
- Apr 19, 2019
- Blog Post
Spring has sprung. That means longer, warmer days. Green and scarlet buds. Rain. Songbirds. Wet songbirds. And the Spring 2019 edition of The Additive Report. Included in the issue is an article I wrote on the long-awaited Production System from Desktop Metal. DM launched the metal 3D printer to...
- From The Fabricator
Sherrill Mfg. wins 2019 National Metalworking Reshoring Award
- Apr 16, 2019
- News Release
Sherrill Mfg., Sherrill, N.Y., has received the 2019 National Metalworking Reshoring Award in recognition of its success in bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. The award, given by the Reshoring Initiative, the Precision Metalforming Association, The Association For Manufacturing Technology, and...
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