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HOW CONDUCTIVITY CAN AFFECT YOUR WELDING OPERATION
Do you know how easy it is for electrical circuit disruptions to interfere with productivity, weld quality and equipment service life? Follow these tips to prevent built-up resistance from causing undue equipment and rework costs.
MATTERS OF SPATTER
Weld spatter used to be an inevitable problem that you just had to deal with ? but with new technological processes being developed, this may not necessarily be the case.
Robotic Pipe Welding of Steel, Stainless and Nickel Alloys, and Aluminum
Special pipe materials that improve the mechanical properties of pipe at elevated temperatures are more difficult and expensive to weld when compared to carbon and austenitic stainless steel process pipe. Robotic pipe welding is ideal for this growing sector of the pipe fabrication market.
Simple Ways Filler Metal Packaging Can Yield Cost and Time Savings
How can you reasonably “cut corners” in your welding operation and still maintain a high-level of productivity, quality and profitability? Try these solutions.
MORE POWER TO YOU: SURFACE PREPARATION OF PIPES IN NUCLEAR PLANTS
Pulverizing the radioactive oxide layer in nuclear water plant pipes with ball-style hones from Brush Research Manufacturing makes short work of pipe decontamination and dramatically reduces radioactive exposure and waste.
BOUND ONLY BY IMAGINATION (Part Three)
Our series concludes with landscape design fabricator Kris Kesler of Bobé Water & Fire Features moves to fabrication, where fittings are machined, materials are cut using both CNC Plasma and water jets, and the silicon bronze and stainless steel piece is fully TIG welded.
OPPORTUNITIES IN WORKHOLDING
This showcase of new workholding devices displays the latest advancements that could make your operations more competitive.
Machine Safeguarding: An Investment and Cost-Cutting Measure
John Peabody of Omron Scientific Technologies explains why the cost of not having machine safeguards far outweighs the cost of designing these safety measures into our plant operations.
Bannon Automotive Constructs $30 Million Electric Car Plant in New York
Bannon Automotive, LLC, (Long Island, NY), in a joint venture with REVA Electric Car Company (Bangalore, India), is moving forward in constructing a $30 million electric-car manufacturing plant in Clay, NY. Bannon received a state package of grants and tax…
Commercial Metals Company Exits Joist and Deck Business
Commercial Metals Company (CMC; Irving, TX) has decided to exit the joist and deck business by way of sale and/or closure of those facilities. Since April 2007, the company has manufactured the United Steel Deck brand of metal roof deck,…
Crucible Industries and Latrobe Specialty Steel Distribution Announce Partnership
Crucible Industries, LLC, (Syracuse, NY) announced its partnership with Latrobe Steel Distribution (Latrobe, PA) for the sales and marketing of Crucible Particle Metallurgy® (CPM). Supported by more than 30 years of investment in research and development, Crucible's CPM is a…
Contract Fabricator Promotes Careers in Manufacturing
Michael Dougherty, president of D&S Manufacturing (Black River Falls, WI), recently announced the company?s involvement in Max and Ben?s Manufacturing Adventures, a collection of videos developed by Western Technical College (La Crosse, WI) to introduce middle school children to the…