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AEM expands campus, adds automated bending cell
- Jun 17, 2024
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- By Tim Heston
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- Jun 17, 2024
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- By Michael Cowden
- Jun 17, 2024
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The majority of the steel distributors and buyers believe that the current slide in steel prices might be seasonal.
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- By Tim Heston
- Jun 17, 2024
- Shop Management
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More companies on the FAB 40 are touting not just their use of robotics and automation, but also of software and data. More leaders in metal fabrication now see the connected factory as an ideal worth striving for.
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- By Steve Benson
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When a meta fabrication shop switches from a press brake to a panel bender, parts do tend to elongate differently when bent. Those differences need to be accounted for.
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Looking at OSHA as a partner, not an adversary
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Craig Kennedy takes on interesting, unique car restoration projects at his one-man shop, Colorado-based Kennedy Coachworks.
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- By Dan Davis
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- Jun 13, 2024
- Shop Management
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Laurel Machine & Foundry is expanding its manufacturing services with the construction of a 20,000-sq.-ft. machining facility and a 7,500-sq.-ft. warehouse in Laurel, Miss.
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Tab Industries adds laser welding capabilities
- Jun 13, 2024
- Laser Welding
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Metalworking manufacturer Tab Industries LLC has added a Bescutter 3,000-W fiber laser welding machine to its 44,000-sq.-ft. Reading, Pa., facility.
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- Jun 13, 2024
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Solar Atmospheres’ newest acquisition, El Cajon, Calif.-based Solar Atmospheres of San Diego, has hired Chris Constable as vice president of operations.
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TMCO expands contract manufacturing capabilities in Nebraska
- Jun 13, 2024
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TMCO Inc. has leased 54,000 sq. ft. of industrial space in Lincoln, Neb., to expand its contract metal manufacturing capabilities. The company employs more than 230 people at its existing facility. Production at the new facility is expected to begin in July 2024. The new space will feature...
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- Jun 13, 2024
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When you discipline yourself to detach from emotion, you can think clearly and make better decisions than the one a certain editor made recently.
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Customer communication drives growth for contract fabricator
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 13, 2024
- Shop Management
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Earlier this year, the Lou-Rich's sales and technical team spent an entire day with a major customer, talking about design basics for sheet metal fabrication and machining. Such communication is more important now than ever for the Minnesota contract fabricator, which lands No. 24 on the 2024 FAB 40.
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