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QUALITY IS STILL KING: RUNOUT AND CONCENTRICITY INSPECTION SYSTEM
Time Is Money: In GD&T, concentricity is a complex tolerance used to establish a tolerance zone for the median points of a cylindrical or spherical part feature. To reduce the time involved in this measurement, a new affordably priced runout and concentricity inspection system verifies cylindrical runout or concentricity in both part specific and universal applications.
QUALITY IS STILL KING: FIRST OFF THE BLOCK
Carbon Fibers Hit The Road: Talk about advanced quality ? check out how the breathtaking speeds in Formula One are achieved with the help of advanced tooling block technology.
Miyachi Unitek Opens Laser Applications Lab In The Midwest
Miyachi Unitek (Monrovia, CA) recently opened a new Midwest Laser Applications Lab to work with customers and prospects to conduct sample evaluations and produce applications reports outlining results attained utilizing its range of Nd:YAG and Fiber laser welders and markers….
Wilson Tool Opens South Africa Office
Wilson Tool International (White Bear Lake, MN), the world?s largest independent manufacturer of tooling systems for punch presses, press brakes and punch and die components for the stamping industry, recently opened a new office in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new…
New Faces on Board of LZH
The board of the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH; Hannover, Germany) was recently restructured. Professor Dr. Wolfgang Ertmer was appointed as the new head of the board of directors, following his predecessor Professor Dr. Uwe Morgner. Professsor Dr.-Ing. Berend Denkena…
Airtronics Awarded Contract to Manufacture Special Steel System
With the current economic downturn, the number of abandoned and foreclosed properties is rapidly increasing, and so is the demand for board-up services to protect those properties from vandalism. Finding plywood ineffective at preventing break-ins, city officials in such major…
Red Bud Celebrates 50 Years
Most people have heard the classic story of business success. An ambitious young individual, filled with ideas but lacking resources, sells his prized possession to start the company of his dreams. From humble beginnings, the small company grows bit by…
BOC India to Install Air Separator Unit at Jindal Steel Plant in Orissa
BOC India Limited (Kolkata, West Bengal), a subsidiary of Linde AG (Munich, Germany), entered into a long-term agreement with Jindal Stainless Limited (New Delhi) for the installation of an air separation unit (ASU) at the latter's integrated steel plant located…
SIAG Schaaf Industrie AG Acquires Chattanooga Plant for Wind Towers
SIAG Schaaf Industrie Aktiengesellschaft (Dernbach, Germany) recently took over a tubular-steel plant in Chattanooga, TN from Aerisyn that produces wind turbine towers for the North-American market. Production at full capacity is almost 100 segments, or 250 towers, which shall be…
Wisconsin Loses 31,000 Manufacturing Jobs
Industrial employment in Wisconsin fell 5 percent over the past twelve months, according to the 2010 Wisconsin Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc. (MNI; Evanston, IL). Wisconsin has 12,026 manufacturers and 1,637 industrial distributors, but…
Half of All Solar Panels Will Not Sell in 2009
Half of all solar panels manufactured this year will not be sold, resulting in a massive oversupply that will take until at least 2012 to sort out. According to a report from Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX), the conclusion…
U.S. Steel Exports Increase 12.4 percent from May to June
In a recently published report, the American Institute of International Steel (AIIS) (McLean, Virginia) indicated that in June, steel exports from the U.S. increased 12.4 percent from exports in May. Steel exports in May and June stood at 628,000 tons…
