MetalForming magazine
January 2008

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FEATURES

Special Report: Metalforming in the Southeast (pdf 338k)

For automotive, appliance and more, the Southeast United States has become a hot bed for metal-product production, and states like Alabama and Mississippi are leading the way.

Productivity Up, Material Consumption Down—What Could be Better? (pdf 134k)

Rome Tool & Die stamps flatter parts, conserves material and enhances operator safety by installing a new coil-feeding system.

Precision Sheet Processing Pays Big (pdf 181k)

…for United Performance Metals, formerly Ferguson Metals, a service center that, with its new cut-to-length line, can supply stainless-steel blanks more quickly and with tighter tolerances than ever before.

Inline Inspection Counts on Custom Conveying (pdf 129k)

Customer satisfaction goes through the roof for metalformer Tella Tool & Mfg. after the firm integrates automated inline visual inspection—with portable, custom conveying solutions—of challenging stampings.

You May Qualify for the R&D Tax Credit (pdf 142k)

Find out how your company can estimate its potential cash benefit from an R&D credit, which can be some serious money, and go about getting it.

TOOLING TECHNOLOGY

Cr-V Springs Produce Productivity Bounce (pdf 86k)

With Oberg’s die maintenance group looking for a spring solution to keep tools in the presses longer between maintenance cycles, the answer came with an upgrade to chrome-vanadium die springs.

COMMENTARIES

Editorial (pdf 43k) by Brad F. Kuvin
A Toast to the New Year

The Science of Forming (pdf 70k) by Stuart Keeler
Do You Use 1008/1010-Grade Steel

Tooling by Design (pdf 60k) by Peter Ulintz
Buying Metal-Stamping Dies—Part 1

Metalforming Electronics (pdf 45k) by George Keremedjiev
The Wireless Pressroom

Blackman on Taxes (pdf 49k) by Irving L. Blackman & Brian T. Whitlock   www.TaxSecretsOfTheWealthy.com
A Successful Business Owner’s Dilemma: How to Invest Accumulated Cash Profits

You & the Law (pdf 53k) by Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Employee Actions and Inactions in the News

BackTalk (pdf 44k) by Louis A. Kren
Manufacturing—Forever on the Move

DEPARTMENTS

News Fronts (pdf 69k)	New Products (pdf 86k)
Tech Update (pdf 136k)	Free Literature (pdf 34k)
Safety Update (pdf 34k)	Classifieds
Tooling Update (pdf 79k)	Site Sponsors (Ad Index)

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