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October Industry Watch: People
People making recent headlines in the business of metalworking and fabricating.
INSERTION TOOL AUTOMATES BRAILLE SIGN-MAKING
Used on any CNC router, this insertion tool from Techno CNC Routers is the easiest way to automate any Braille sign-making business and make it more competitive.
HIGH RPM AND HIGH FEED RATE FINISHING WORK ON EXOTIC METALS
Primary Cutter offers seven-flute SUPERMILL high-performance carbide endmills for finishing work, peripheral cuts in titanium, high-temperature alloys, harder stainless steels and heat-treated materials.
Artist Evan Hoffman teams with Nex Solutions for ArtPrize 2010
Nex Solutions performed the high-definition plasma cutting, welding and powder coating for Evan’s 3D steel creation: Deux Vagues Etreints (Two Waves Embrace).
IMPROVED MICRO-IMPLANTS THROUGH LASER SINTERING
The goal of a new research project is to produce a porous structure on chosen areas of an implant surface to improve attachment to the surrounding tissue provide a surface for medication to be deposited.
MOBILE WATERJET COLD CUTTING APPLICATIONS
Jet Edge‘s 80 hp, 60,000 psi iP60-80DS diesel-powered water jet intensifier pump is capable of producing up to 1.35 gpm (5.1 l/m) of ultra-high pressure water for mobile water jet cutting applications.
CUSTOM ELECTRIC TOP-LOADING INDUSTRIAL OVEN
The No. 882 specially designed 500-deg F electric top-loading oven from Grieve is being used for testing down-hole oil field equipment. Nichrome wire elements heat the workspace, while a 600 cfm horizontal front-to-rear airflow is provided by two 3 hp recirculating blowers.
TURNING TO CONDITION MONITORING FOR WIND TURBINES
Wind turbine manufacturing has created many opportunities for fabricators. Wind turbine service is well on its way to becoming a considerable source for renewable business profits for repair and maintenance providers, too. Greg Ziegler of SKF USA explains how.
Linde Awarded Major Contract to Supply REBOX HLL Oxy-Fuel System to SSAB
The installation will represent the world’s largest oxy-fuel combustion system in a reheat furnace.
DRIVE TECHNOLOGIES (Part Two): WINDING TECHNOLOGY . . . NOW DIRECTLY IN THE DRIVE
In the second part of this two-part series, Alexander Schaedlich of Siemens AG and William Gilbert of Siemens Industry explore how simply setting parameters, rather than configuring and programming, is the essential advantage of a new standard “winder” application that can be directly integrated into today’s drive systems.
MORRIS MATERIAL HANDLING CHILE LTDA IS RE-CERTIFIED
The ISO 9001:2008 certification includes the selling and distribution of spare parts, selling and servicing of installation, inspections, maintenance, and repairs of overhead cranes and hoists, selling and distribution of hoist and overhead crane components, selling, design, project management, and assembly of overhead cranes.
SHOWTIME: FABTECH 2010
The largest annual metal forming, fabricating, finishing and welding event in North America returns to the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on November 2-4, 2010. Come join 22,000 visitors and over 1,000 exhibiting companies that will cover more than 350,000 net sq ft of floor space. Don’t miss it.
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