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American Punch Creates Mobile App to Calculate Tonnage for Punching Steel

The app makes calculations based on user input of punch shape, dimension, and thickness of material being punched. The results of recommended tonnage are then presented for a variety of materials.

Posted: May 11, 2012

The American Punch app for calculating tonnage, the first and only app of its kind, is the easiest and most convenient way to determine the tonnage needed to punch holes in a variety of steel materials. It eliminates awkward and outdated slide charts, complex calculations, variables and multipliers.

The American Punch Company (Cleveland, OH) announces that it has released an app for mobile devices that allow the user to calculate the recommended tonnage needed when punching steel. The app will make calculations based on user input of punch shape and dimension, and thickness of material being punched. The results of recommended tonnage are then presented for a variety of materials.

The American Punch app for calculating tonnage is the first and only app of its kind. It is the easiest and most convenient way to determine the tonnage needed to punch holes in a variety of steel materials. It eliminates awkward and outdated slide charts, complex calculations, variables & multipliers.

The American Punch app for calculating tonnage is a free download available from iTunes or an Android App Store.  The American Punch Company is the leading provider of punches, dies, shear blades and portable punching and drilling machines for the metalworking and fabricating industries. Additionally, its tooling is widely used in the structural steel industry.

Its world-class manufacturing facilities allow American Punch Company to provide customers with manufacturing flexibility to ship stock round and oblong punches and dies, as well as flat bar and angle blades the same day ordered. Non-stock sizes of standard tooling will be shipped within 48 hours. Made-to-order tooling is available manufactured with the same level of dedication to quality and customer service as its in-stock line of products.

www.americanpunchco.com

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