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Aluminum Wheel Plant Expands And Creates New Jobs In South Carolina
With its recent multi-million dollar investment in new equipment to expand internal production capabilities, Forgitron Technologies LLC (Camden, SC) is on schedule to complete Phase Two of the company's long-term growth strategy this year. "As we continue to introduce new…
Ohio Cold Rolling Mill Returns to Operation
The Yorkville, OH, cold rolling mill of Severstal Wheeling, Inc. (Wheeling, WV) resumes operations on December 13 to provide additional cold rolling capacity to Severstal North America. Yorkville, idled since June 2009, will finish sheet steel made at Severstal Sparrows…
Teens Turn Thumbs Down on Manufacturing Career
Despite assertions from manufacturers that they will need a new breed of highly skilled workers in the years ahead and job opportunities will abound for today's youth, U.S. teenagers in large numbers want to wear white collars, not blue, when…
Britain's Lost Engineers
Oxford Intelligence Research (London, England) shows more than half of UK workers with advanced engineering skills have been lost to the industry. 58 per cent of the UK's most highly-trained and experienced engineers are not using their specialist skills at…
ESAB Recognized as Best Partner for Welding and Cutting Systems in Energy Generation
Frost & Sullivan (Palo Alto, CA) presented The 2009 Global Best Partners Welding & Cutting Systems for Energy Generation Award to ESAB (Florence, SC), which has emerged as the leading manufacturer of welding and cutting systems for energy generation industries…
Advanced High-Strength Steel Technologies Featured on Motor Trend Car of the Year
The North American steel industry and the AISI Steel Market Development Institute have a reason to celebrate, as the 2010 Ford Fusion and Fusion hybrid, which feature a number of advanced high-strength steel technologies, were selected as Motor Trend Car…
India's CII-Steel Summit Vows to Up Production to 200 Million Tons by 2020
According to recent reports from Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX), A Sai Pratap, Indian minister of state for steel, has urged steel producers in the country to play a vital role in reducing energy consumption in the steel-making process…
TIER 3-CERTIFIED 36,000 PSI 280 HP WATERJET INTENSIFIER PUMP
The iP36-280DS from Jet Edge, Inc. is ideal for use in remote and/or mobile locations where electricity is scarce.
ARTICULATED CUTTING HEAD FOR CUTTING COMPLEX PARTS
The A-Jet from Omax cuts accurate beveled edges on complex parts at angles determined by the machine operator or part program.
SMALLEST LASER SYSTEM FOR STANDARD SHEET METAL SIZES
The ByVention compact cutting system from Bystronic Inc. uses either 2.2 kW or 4.4 kW of laser power to process steel, stainless steel and aluminum sheets with a thickness of between 3/16 in to 1/2 in.
UNATTENDED MAINTENANCE: WATERJET CLEANING SYSTEM
The Waterjet Cyclone abrasive removal system from Chukar Waterjet, Inc. removes ten pounds of garnet abrasive per minute.
CUT MORE PARTS WITH LESS POWER IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME
The TruLaser 3030 NEW system from Trumpf Inc. uses a single cutting head strategy equipped with a 5 kW CO2 laser standard to increase productivity and flexibility when cutting sheet thicknesses up to 1 in.
