Wednesday, 29 January 2014 11:25
New Malleable Cast Iron Clamping Squares for use with BuildPro Modular Welding Tables!
January 2014 Strong Hand Tools®, manufacturer of innovative Strong Hand Tools® Welding Clamps, Magnets, Pliers and BuildPro™ Welding Tables, is proud to introduce the New BuildPro Malleable Cast Iron Clamping Squares. The 4-face Heavy Duty Clamping Squares feature a total…
Wednesday, 29 January 2014 11:11
SigmaTUBE® for Tube and Pipe Cutting
SigmaTEK Systems, LLC, the world’s leading authority on CAD/CAM nesting and manufacturing process automation, announces the release of SigmaTUBE. A complete tube and pipe cutting software, SigmaTUBE supports round, square, rectangular, or triangular tube/pipe. In addition structural material such as…
Friday, 13 December 2013 10:17
HotPurge™ Pipe Purging Systems for pre-heated Pipe Welding
Thick wall chrome steel pipe joints, as used in the power industry for high pressure high strength pipe work, need to be pre-heated for welding and probably need a post weld heat treatment too. Weld joints of this nature need…
Monday, 02 December 2013 22:51
Return on Investment with the QuickPurge® II
For a stainless steel pipe welding job with just under 17,000 joints from 6 – 36” diameter, it was found that a gas savings of almost 7 million litres of Argon were made, when comparing old fashioned weld purging…
Monday, 21 October 2013 10:30
BENTELER enters the North American Seamless Tube Market
In the course of implementing their growth strategy BENTELER STAHL/ROHR (BSR) situated in Paderborn/Germany concluded a contract with DANIELI & C., Buttrio/ Italy for a new turnkey 4 ½" seamless tube mill in the USA. The mill will be built…
Tuesday, 01 October 2013 17:36
Agellis receives first Scandinavian order for unique furnace measurement system.
AGELLIS Group, which develops and sells products and solutions to the global metals industry, has received an order totaling 660 KSEK for a new measurement system to be installed at Ovako Hofors Sweden. The order relates to a system EMLI-FBL…
Sunday, 29 September 2013 08:33
Unique robotic tube bending system can dramatically speed production
A unique robot-based CNC tube bending machine that provides metal fabricators with unprecedented flexibility for manufacturing complex preassembled tubular parts is now available from Unison. Known as the 'Twister', the machine combines a high performance multi-axis industrial robot with an…
Sunday, 29 September 2013 08:29
Advanced 3D simulator speeds development of tube bending programs
Unison has launched an advanced three-dimensional simulator to help metal fabricators accelerate the development of control programs for all-electric tube bending machines. Using artificial intelligence techniques, the simulator provides powerful program analysis and optimisation facilities, together with realistic real-time visualisation…
Wednesday, 04 September 2013 21:02
Cast-Iron Future - South East Metal firms join forces to plug skills gap
Apprentices are being sought to follow a career in industry through a unique partnership to capitalise on the resurgence in engineering and advanced manufacturing. Skills body Semta has joined forces with the Institute of Cast Metal Engineers to develop advanced…
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Monday, 02 September 2013 15:42
Automated Robot Bending Drilling Cell
LEADING AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT SUPPLIER AUTOMATICALLY CHOOSES ADDISONMCKEE. Global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of the world's finest tube bending and endforming technologies, AddisonMckee of Lebanon, USA; Brantford, Canada and Bamber Bridge, UK has recently installed an automated cell…
Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:49
Dos and Don’ts When Buying a Second-Hand Machine
So Your Second-Hand Machine Does Not Become a “Failure” Lower investment volume, adequate production capacity – the arguments for buying a second-hand machine are obvious. Is it that simple though? Particularly in the case of complex tube bending machines, there…
Tuesday, 20 August 2013 12:58
Björn Roodzant appointed Vice President Marketing and Communication at Sandvik Coromant
Björn Roodzant has been appointed Vice President Marketing and Communication at Sandvik Coromant. He takes over from Jessica Alm who recently became Executive Vice President and Head of Group Communications at the Sandvik Group. “I am confident that Björn will…
Tuesday, 16 July 2013 09:23
Midlands metal pressings company secures £1m Jaguar Land Rover contract
West Bromwich based Berck Ltd, leading manufacturers of quality metal pressings and metal and plastic subassemblies, have won an impressive £1m contract with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). Having previously worked as a second tier supplier for JLR, the new order…