Metal Forming & Fabricating
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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
What’s Under is What Counts: Press brakes deliver high reliability for 24/7 cell in doubling production of underbody armor kits for combat Humvees.
CUSTOMIZED HEAVY DUTY SHOP PRESS
Phoenix Hydraulic Presses offers a 25 ton heavy duty H-frame shop press to assemble spring loaded cylinders. The press features an easily adjustable hand winch to change the bed height and control the amount of daylight.
SELF-CLINCHING FASTENERS INCORPORATE UNIQUE NYLON LOCKING ELEMENT
PEMHEX® self-clinching fasteners incorporate a unique hexagonal nylon element providing a reusable, non-metallic prevailing torque thread lock. These self-locking fasteners can be installed permanently in steel or aluminum sheets as thin as .060 in/1.52 mm and their locking performance meets the applicable standards of NASM25027.
PRESS BRAKES SPEED PART BENDING WITH
Cincinnati Inc. offers the MAXFORM hydraulic press brake, which combines state-of-the-art forming speeds and part processing productivity with “smart” controls that speed and simplify programming, setup and part-handling.
FORMIDABLE FIREPOWER
Sink or Swim: This advanced tube bender provides versatile on-demand production for submarine building, with fast single-stage fabrication of complex part shapes that suit the dynamic nature of this production environment.
Fasten Your Seat Belts
Crystal Ball: The current state of the equipment finance industry is more volatile and complex than in many years. Here are some predictions to help you manage your financing strategy.
HIDDEN TRAGEDY'
False Sense of Security? A new report from Congress supposedly discovers a startling truth about workers’ compensation and declines in claim frequency.
UNIVERSAL TOOLING SET INCLUDED WITH ANGLE ROLL MODEL
CML USA Ercolina® angle roll model CE50 is capable of bending a wide range of profiles and materials to centerline radius as small as four times the diameter of the work piece.
FULL COURT PRESS
Twice As Nice: A new hydraulic press line and an existing machine retrofit doubled overall performance and provided greater flexibility to this gearbox components manufacturer.
LAYING DOWN THE LAW
Litigation Lunacy: 75 percent of manufacturers faced at least one new lawsuit recently, with 53 percent facing 6 or more new suits. And 25 percent of the manufacturers surveyed reported facing at least one $20 million action.
A DROP IN THE BUCKET
Gough Econ receives an order for three bucket elevators as part of the Royal Australian Mint’s modernization effort
FULLY HYDRAULIC ADJUSTABLE PLATE BENDING ROLLS
Cole-Tuve‘s plate bending rolls that are currently making an impressive market appearance are VIRLI Models 3R-UHS with variable distances between the two lower rolls and a vertically adjustable upper roll. These are fully hydraulic, 3-roll rolls on which each of the two lower rolls is adjustable horizontally and independently.
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