Fabreeka International, Inc., Stoughton, MA, announces a newly redesigned website, www.fabreeka.com, filled with application case histories, product specs and helpful information for anyone wanting to learn more about products...
Despite increases in monthly shipments, the trend continues to point downward for the North American steel tubular industry, according to statistics supplied by the Steel Tube Institute of North America. Shipments of mechanical tube rose 10-12 percent in October as compared to September numbers...
Fagor Arrasate, based in Spain with U.S. offices in Bensenville, IL, has opened a new plant in Markina, Spain. The 22,000-sq.-ft. plant will produce mechanical presses in capacities to 10,000 kN. To aid manufacture, the plant will employ two 220,000-lb.-capacity overhead cranes and a press-...
Rheem Manufacturing has chosen Lightning Time Savers, Inc., Nicholasville, KY, to provide a turnkey quick-die-change (QDC) system for seven presses at a new Rheem facility in Mexicalli, Mexico. Lightning will provide QDC engineering services and hardware including Optima hydraulic clamps and...
Bystronic, Hauppauge, NY, has begun construction of a new office, showroom and training center to serve as its North American headquarters. The 66,000-sq.-ft. three-story facility will offer demonstrations of laser-cutting equipment, state-of-the-art classrooms with computers and audio-visual...
Delcam, a leading UK-based CAD-CAM software developer, has agreed to begin selling, worldwide, wire-erosion software called PEPS Wire EDM, from UK-based Camtek. Using the software allows offline programming of wire-EDM machines from Agie, Charmilles, Hitachi and others. Camtek has U.S....
NKK Corp. has announced plans to enter the automotive-components business, beginning with production of gearboxes, suspensions and other parts as early as next autumn. NKK has expertise in new types of strong, lightweight steel and in precision production using hydroforming technology.
Flat-rolled steel-service center Oregon Metal Slitters has fired up its new 90,000-square-efoot temperature-controlled processing and distribution facility in north Portland, OR. The plant features a Demag 10-ton overhead crane, and operates 24 hours a day with leading-edge processing equipment...
The Automotive Group of United States Steel has launched a new website, www.ussautomotive.com, designed to be an important steel-technology resource for the automotive industry. The site contains information on steel...
Cargill Steel has placed an order with Pro-Eco Ltd., Oakville, Ontario, Canada, for modernization of a Cargill push-pull pickling line in Nashville, TN. New machinery such as a recoiler, roll-type oiler and a Nelson Steel spray-type rinse system will allow Cargill to process material from 0.05...
