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Bending and Forming - Page 42
- From The Fabricator
Preparing your shop to meet new sheet metal component supply opportunities
- By Bill Frahm
- May 7, 2021
- Blog Post
The Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act will bring increased demand for sheet metal components. Here are the opportunities you can expect—and how to prepare for them.
- From The Fabricator
Simpac, Elm Park Labs partner to create extended reality tool for metal forming
- May 5, 2021
- News Release
Simpac America, the North American subsidiary of South Korean press manufacturer Simpac Inc., has partnered with Elm Park Labs, a Michigan-based, women-owned computer software company, to create an extended reality tool for the metal forming industry
Bending tube without marring the surface
- By Mike Thomas
- May 4, 2021
- Article
Some challenging bending applications can result in marring the tube’s surface. The tooling is metal, the tubing is metal, and in some cases abrasions or scratches are unavoidable. Many such applications are candidates for a tough, durable plastic tooling alternative.
- From The Fabricator
Tapping and trapping institutional knowledge in a fab shop
Experienced personnel help a manufacturing floor run more efficiently. Shop owners and managers need to tap that knowledge before those veteran workers leave.
- From The Fabricator
Die Science: The essential tooling checklist
- By Art Hedrick
- Apr 29, 2021
- Article
Forgetting a few key things when designing or building a stamping die can prove to be disastrous. Using a checklist of items critical in this process can prevent a lot of problems.
- From The Fabricator
ExOne expands into 3D-printed tooling business with acquisition of Freshmade 3D assets
- Apr 28, 2021
- News Release
The ExOne Co., North Huntingdon, Pa., a manufacturer of industrial sand and metal 3D printers using binder jetting technology, has acquired the assets of Freshmade 3D, an Ohio-based startup with a patented method of creating AMClad tooling out of sand forms 3D-printed on ExOne machines. ExOne...
- From The Fabricator
Modernizing a big press brake
- By Justin Atkins and Tony Briner
- Apr 28, 2021
- Article
New controls on old pieces of iron can make older press brakes perform like new models.
- From The Fabricator
Coe Press Equipment adds Liakos Industrial Sales to rep network
- Apr 27, 2021
- News Release
Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, Mich., has announced the addition of Liakos Industrial Sales to its distributor network. Liakos, located in Columbus, Ohio, represents Coe’s coil handling and press feeding equipment throughout Ohio and Kentucky. Liakos is a distributor of new and used...
- From The Fabricator
Servo press puts reverse tonnage in reverse
- By Kate Bachman
- Apr 27, 2021
- Article
Stamping manufacturer Clips & Clamps Industries was forming an extremely hard, "wicked," 1/8-in.-thick, 78 Rockwell hardness stainless steel part and encountered extreme reverse tonnage--100 tons on a 300-ton mechanical press. The press, tooling, and entire system took a beating that even a robust hydraulic dampening system couldn’t completely quell. The company installed a 330-ton servo mechanical press on which to run the part and realized a complete reversal of the reverse tonnage and the problems it created.
- From The Fabricator
What happens when you don’t design for the press brake?
- By Steve Benson
- Apr 23, 2021
- Article
Bending guru Steve Benson shows what can happen when minimum flange lengths aren’t taken into account while designing for a press brake operation.
- From The Fabricator
SAF adds column cover roller machine
- Apr 22, 2021
- News Release
Atlanta-based SAF, a global metals distributor, fabricator, and finisher, is enhancing its column cover fabrication capabilities to produce longer, taller covers. With its recently acquired, custom-made version of the Parmigiani VBH4030/6 roller machine, the company now can produce conical,...
- From The Fabricator
Ford Mustang Mach-E earns Top Safety Pick Award
- Apr 22, 2021
- News Release
The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E has earned a Top Safety Pick Award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety after finishing all six IIHS crashworthiness tests with good ratings—the top possible results in those categories. The six crashworthiness tests are driver- and passenger-side small...
- From The Fabricator
Ask the Stamping Expert: What designs are available for in-die forming?
- By Thomas Vacca
- Apr 22, 2021
- Article
Tom Vacca presents four in-die forming designs for tweaking bends while the tool is in the press.
- From The Fabricator
Coe Press Equipment names director of engineering
- Apr 21, 2021
- News Release
Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, Mich., a provider of coil handling and servo roll feed equipment, has hired Blaine Lingenfelter as its new director of engineering. Lingenfelter has spent nearly 30 years on the engineering side of manufacturing for a variety of Tier 1 global automotive...
- From The Fabricator
Bollinger Shipyards acquires Gulf Island Fabrication’s Shipyard facilities
- Apr 21, 2021
- News Release
Bollinger Shipyards, a designer and builder of steel military and commercial vessels in Lockport, La., has acquired Gulf Island Fabrication Inc.’s Shipyard facilities in Houma, La., expanding Bollinger’s new construction and repair capacity and capabilities and giving it access to a larger...
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