MetalForming magazine
September 2004

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FEATURES

Florida Precision Sheetmetal Shop Ready to Celebrate (pdf 171k)

A family-owned stamper-fabricator-metal finisher finds and refines a vertical-integration formula for surviving challenging times, and looks ahead to celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Customer Demands Require Fabrication Flexibility (pdf 181k)

Peerless Electric custom-builds about 60 percent of its lighting products. A newly installed turret punch press and shear combo, along with automated complex-bending capability, reduces the time needed to make these tricky parts by 60 percent.

Press Automation
Show in Print
(pdf 195k)

Come on in and take a look at the latest, greatest automation products for metalformers. Technology on display divides into five pavilions: Transfer Systems/Transfer Presses, Press Automation Controls, Die-Handling/Quick-Die-Change Equipment, Conveyors, and Press Load/Unload Systems. Follow the link above to make your way to the show-hall entrance, where you can access the individual pavilions. View the Exhibitors List...

Resistance Welding? Keep It Safe
(pdf 225k)

If you target resistance welding as a way to boost profits, make sure you practice the value-added operation safely.

TOOLING TECHNOLOGY

Die-Grinder Reminder
(pdf 184k)

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