Metal Forming & Fabricating
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Cabinet Oven for Heating Tubular Aluminum Parts
The No. 890 from Grieve is a 350 deg F electrically heated cabinet oven with a motor operated vertical lift door.
AIDA de México Expands Facility
The Querétaro service facility also increased staff support for metal stamping, installing presses and supplying parts.
Don’t Play with Fire: Preventative Maintenance on Roll Formers Saves Money and Time
If you run your roll former 24/7 without maintenance, you’re playing with fire. Every maintenance program is a little bit different, but this general outline is useful for any metal roll forming machine. It includes some points of emphasis to consider, and some things that may get overlooked.
Petersen Aluminum Orders Light Gage Slitting Line
This new line from Red Bud Industries will be used to manufacture PAC-CLAD metal roof and wall products.
AIDA-America Hires New Project Manager
Mason Round joins their degreed engineer Project Management Team.
The Next Generation of Power Generation
The glut of natural gas now being pumped from U.S. shale fields is fueling a gas power plant construction boom and replacing conventional coal-fired generation systems with cleaner, sustainable gas-fired technology that complements advances in wind, hydroelectric and solar power generation. That’s good news for fabricators who supply parts and assemblies used in power plant construction and repair.
Hypertherm Accepts Educational Grant Applications
Their Spark Something Great program enters its fourth year in supporting the next generation of welders and metal fabricators in plasma cutting.
How to Put Seeming Waste to Good Use
Coal-fired power plants are turning to ash removal conveyors that eliminate the need and use of ash ponds and support EPA regulations on the safe disposal of coal ash in landfills and surface impoundments. This job shop fabricated five of these large, sophisticated submerged scrapper conveyor systems, which one power plant now uses to recycle coal ash, conserve natural resources and save energy.
Burning Beams in No Time
For some insights into remaining successful and competitive, take a closer look at how this fabrication shop won more structural business by investing in an automated beam line that transformed their entire operation into becoming more efficient and competitive.
U. S. Steel Names Interim Leader of Tubular Segment
Douglas R. Matthews assumes day-to-day responsibilities from David J. Rintoul, who is retiring.
Portable All-Electric Press Brake for Versatile Forming of Basic and Complex Shapes
The versatile all-electric GOFORM 40 ton press brake from Cincinnati Incorporated is perfect for small parts up to 0.25 in thick and less than 50 lb, but also has a 10 in stroke and 17 in open height for jobs requiring tall tools and adapters.
