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High Speed Steel Belt Tumble Blaster
For high speed processing of parts that can be gently tumbled, the 1400S steel flight tumble blaster from Viking hits a sweet spot by balancing size with capability to reduce operating cost and increase serviceability.
Suhner Opens New Tool Repair Center
This new North American center has more workspace with improved training facilities, new repair function areas and new repair equipment.
Air-Cooled Fluid Chillers for Metalworking
The QBE series of air-cooled fluid chillers from Chase Cooling Systems can be customized for resistance welding to lasers to EDM and comes fully packaged with refrigeration system, controls, storage tank, and pump to integrate into existing machinery.
No Drip Atomizing Nozzles Conserve Precious Liquids
No Drip External Mix Atomizing Spray Nozzles from EXAIR eliminate post spray drips that waste precious resources when painting, coating, rinsing, cooling, quenching, wetting, or for dust control and humidification.
Custom Engineered Compressed Air Systems
Complete systems from Kaeser include compressors, blower packages, boosters, vacuum packages, compressed air filters, refrigerated dryers, desiccant dryers, condensate management, piping, and more engineered to each application.
How to Defeat Downtime
No one is happy when a machine goes down because of tooling issues – wasted time that is even more frustrating when it’s avoidable. Arrow Storage Products found a way to significantly reduce their machine downtime and cut their average tooling downtime per week due to tooling by 70 percent.
Keeping it Cool: Why Machines Depend on Chillers, and Chillers Depend on You
Lax water maintenance has a huge potential downside in laser cutting machines: bad water could lead to extreme overheating and complete failure of the laser. Here are some other reasons why keeping cool and remembering to change the chiller water will get the most work out of your machinery at the lowest cost of ownership.
Rocklin Manufacturing Restores Historic Building
After a massive restoration effort with state-of-the-art features, they once again call their original 1912 building home.
Stock Lubricator Delivers Cleaner Floors and Presses, Reduces Lubrication Costs
With improved guarding that helps guide material when loading coil stock or feeding blanks, the updated Uni-Roller stock lubricator from Unist delivers 50 percent or better reduction in lubricant consumption for cleaner floors and press windows.
Coil Lubricating System for Stamping Improves Accuracy and Reduces Costs
The Spra-Rite UltraCoat non-contact spray system from Industrial Innovations is designed for easy coil feed installation and press control communication for reliable, economical application of lubricant to stock prior to stamping to help improve accuracy and reduce overspray and consumption.
Environmentally Safe Cutting Lube Increases Tool Life
Versatile RotaGel Cutting Lube from Hougen increases the tool life of annular cutters, taps, drills, saws, reamers and endmills used on carbon steel, stainless steel, Inconel, Hastelloy, titanium, aluminum and other alloys and exotics.
