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When Borla Performance Industries, a leading manufacturer of aftermarket automotive products, switched from machining to plasma cutting, the company’s productivity improved in several ways—programming, cutting, and downstream operations.
Piqua, Ohio-based Tailwind Technologies’ sister operating companies, AMI-AWI, have acquired the assets of Dawley Aviation and Dawley Mfg., both of which serve the general aviation market. AMI-AWI are providers of aviation and tubular components, exhaust systems, thin-wall welding, and precision...
A new AI vision system from Novarc Technologies aims to automate pipe welding further.
Joining tubes at right angles to make a manifold is never an easy process. Fabricators spend a lot of time marking, cutting, coping, and aligning everything. The staff at distillery fabricator Hillbilly Stills found that pulling collars with a T-Drill unit eased the entire burden.
Sending out an RFQ for a vast turnkey manufacturing system can be the way to go for big OEMs. But all of the hardware, software, sensor, and control technologies are also available to small equipment builders. Regardless of fabrication needs, shops can probably find an automated machine or system within budget.
The Hollow Structural Sections Committee of the Steel Tube Institute has introduced an updated technical guide, “Methods to Check Dimensional Tolerances on Hollow Structural Sections,” to help fabricators and service centers. Available on the STI website, it discusses and illustrates the latest...
Axxair USA Inc., a subsidiary of Axxair, a France-based manufacturer of orbital GTAW, orbital cutting, tube facing, and pipe beveling tools, has moved to a new location near Houston. The Alvin, Texas, facility features a showroom, a larger service department, and larger offices. Offering new...
Innovative Engineered Solutions Inc. (iES) has introduced a new line of electric upcut tube saws in two standard models. The eRB80 TS can cut tubes up to 90 mm dia., and the eRB150 TS can saw tubes up to 150 mm dia. The saws are controlled with a standard Allen-Bradley or optional Siemens PLC/HMI...
Like most service centers founded decades ago, Wisconsin Steel & Tube Corp. did a brisk business using the transaction business model, but change is inevitable. In 2010 the company sought to provide machining services and founded a separate metal fabrication.
HGG Profiling Equipment offers the small-footprint ProCutter900 RB for cutting precision profiles from 2- to 36-in.-dia. pipe up to 42 ft. The machine integrates a totally automated material handling system on a small footprint. With the infeed conveyor, raw material is fed continuously into the...
Think metal fabrication has boundaries and restrictions? Think again. It’s always growing, whether it’s used in a profession, vocation, or hobby. An emerging use: vintage minibike restoration.
Esco Tool has introduced the COHOG clamshell split-frame machine for beveling and end prepping tube and pipe. It features an indexable module that mounts to the tool slide and holds a pre-angled bit of 30 degrees or 37-1/2 degrees. Custom angles also are available that use double-edge insert bits....
Koike Aronson Ransome offers two new welding packages—one for pipe welding and the other for SAW. The pipe welding package incorporates the new Cricket-I welding manipulator and the company’s standard Wel-Handy Multi Next and WU-3 weaver mounted on the end of the boom. This package is...
Medina, Ohio-based HGG Profiling Equipment has appointed Todd Wellens as area sales manager, serving eastern and midwestern U.S. and Canada. He has 27 years of experience in metal fabricating machine tool sales. The company is a supplier of pipe cutting machines, robotic profile cutting lines, and...
BGS Group held its 2020 Transportation Oil and Gas Congress as a two-day online event, Nov. 16-17. It included more than 400 participants involved in oil and gas; pipeline operation; and engineering, procurement, and construction. BGS Group created the online platform to give congress participants...
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
start your free subscriptionIn this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
The Tube and Pipe Association focuses on the unique needs of tube and pipe producing and fabricating professionals.
Follow the link below to find a TPA member supplier near you.