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Engineering Specialties redesigns website
- Jan 28, 2016
- Shop Management
- News Release
Engineering Specialties Inc. (ESI) has launched its redesigned company website at www.esict.com. The company offers custom stamping, machining, and assembly. The website highlights details about the company’s technology and capabilities. New website features include a blog, streamlined...
- From The Fabricator
3D MakerJet R&D prototypes powderless wire-feed metal 3-D printer
- Jan 28, 2016
- Shop Management
- News Release
3D MakerJet Inc., Orlando, Fla., in partnership with Chinese developer ZBOT/Guangzhou DNSPOWER Design Co., has been working toward powderless wire-feed additive manufacturing. After 1.5 years in R&D, functioning prototypes using metal alloy filaments, including copper, have been reviewed and...
- From The Welder
Have you thanked your welding instructor today?
- By Amanda Carlson
- Jan 28, 2016
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
A simple expression of appreciation can go a long way.
- From The Fabricator
Coolant-through drill’s flute geometry breaks down chips
- Jan 28, 2016
- Punching and Other Holemaking
- Product Release
Dormer Pramet offers the MP-X 8xD coolant-through drill. It features fast chip evacuation, microgram carbide material, and multilayer titanium aluminum nitride coating. The CTW™ (continually thinned web) flute geometry optimizes flute volume and breaks the chips into small, manageable pieces....
- From The Fabricator
Two-wheel hand truck lifts 200-lb. loads up to 37 in.
- Jan 28, 2016
- Shop Management
- Product Release
The LNB-2 from Lift’n Buddy is a powered, elevating, two-wheel hand truck that offers the vertical lifting capability of a small powered stacker. The adjustable-height platform positions loads at the touch of a button to help eliminate operator bending and stretching during loading,...
- From The Fabricator
Coldwater-built panel lines help Whirlpool earn Platinum TPM certification
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- News Release
Coldwater Machine Co. has announced that Whirlpool’s Findlay, Ohio, plant has achieved Platinum-level certification in total productivity maintenance (TPM) for its Dishwasher Front Panel Line 4 and Line 5, both designed and built by Coldwater. The main focus for achieving this status includes...
- From The Fabricator
Induction dryer heats steel strip at 722 FPM
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- Product Release
Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic® has shipped a 1,900-kW, 100,000-Hz induction heating dryer system to a steel strip galvanizing producer for drying coatings including passivation, with and without chrome products, and organics. The induction dryer is designed to heat steel strip 0.02 to 0.10 in. thick...
- From The Fabricator
Welding gas/shielding gas market to be worth $9.46 billion by 2020
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- News Release
"Welding Gas/Shielding Gas Market by End-Use Industry (Metal Manufacturing & fabrication, Construction), Storage, Distribution & Transportation (Cylinder & packaged gas, Merchant liquid), Type (Oxygen), Application (Shielded metal arc welding) & Region - Global Forecast to 2020,” a report...
- From The Fabricator
Uniweld founder David Pearl Sr. dies
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- News Release
David Pearl Sr., founder of Uniweld Products Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died Dec. 20, 2015, at age 97. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he founded Uniweld Products Inc. in 1949, a company that continues to manufacture welding and refrigeration equipment. To supply his growing demand for some...
- From The Fabricator
PVS Metals adds steel leveling machines
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- News Release
PVS Metals, a division of Owen Industries Inc. in Carter Lake, Iowa, has completed the installation of what it says is one of the world’s largest steel leveling machines equipped with stretcher/leveler technology. With the leveler working in tandem with a fully automated fiber laser tower,...
- From The Fabricator
System allows remote monitoring of tube and pipe welding
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- Product Release
Xiris Automation Inc. offers a new weld monitoring system that allows tube and pipe fabricators to monitor live GTAW, plasma welding, and laser welding processes remotely. The system includes a high-dynamic-range camera that can see simultaneously all features of the torch tip and weld arc, its...
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Using 3-D geometry for more than creating 2-D drawings
- By Gerald Davis
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis demonstrates file linking between 3-D CAD and published literature. Some published formats are easier to produce with postprocessing software.
- From The Fabricator
Industrial gases market for metals, metal fabrication to reach $47.06 billion by 2020
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- News Release
India-based MarketsandMarkets has published "Industrial Gases—Metals & Metal Fabrication Market by Type (Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Others), Function (Metal Manufacturing, Fabrication), Storage (Cylinder, Merchant Liquid, Tonnage), End-use (Metal, Automotive, Aerospace, Others) - Forecast to...
Industry 4.0 arrives in Düsseldorf and in the manufacturing sector
- By Eric Lundin
- Jan 27, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
The term Industry 4.0 has been a frequently used buzzword for several years, but these days it’s more than a buzzword: It’s a reality, and it has begun to make inroads in the tube and pipe industry.
Cutting processes displayed and debuted at FABTECH®
- By Eric Lundin
- Jan 27, 2016
- Cutting and Weld Prep
- Article
A tour of FABTECH revealed that many changes are afoot regarding cutting, especially among laser manufacturers. Editor Eric Lundin provides an overview of some of the technologies that were display at the 2015 expo.
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