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ALL-IN-ONE 50-TON IRONWORKER
This five-station adjustable stroke ironworker from Scotchman Industries not only shears, notches and punches up to ¾ in thick material, but also performs press brake, pipe notcher, tube shear, rod shear and picket tool operations.
ADVANCED COIL HANDLING EQUIPMENT FOR THE PRESSROOM
Machinery from COE Press Equipment includes stand-alone roll feeds, straighteners, reels, cradles and air feeds to complete integrated feed line systems, including the heaviest and widest coil feeding systems available for metal stamping.
LASER CUT LARGE SHEET METAL ECONOMICALLY
The 6 kW ByStar L 4025 laser cutting system from Bystronic can economically process large 8 ft x 39 ft format sheets with exceptional cutting precision by using a short beam delivery system and autofocus for accuracy and beam stability across the entire cutting table.
CARBON FIBER TOOLING FOR ROBOT MATERIAL HANDLING
This much lighter, fire resistant, tough tooling alternative from Bilsing Automation is ideal for crossbar beams, loading and unloading beams, destacking beams, panel loading T-booms, and tooling supports for bodyshop, pressroom, injection molding and other robot tending operations.
FLEXIBLE WORKHOLDER FOR AUTOMATED TOOL AND CUTTER GRINDING
Ideal for automated tool and cutter grinding of small batch sizes of all cutting tool types, the PRISMO workholder from Schunk clamps diameters between five mm and 20 mm without additional components or time-consuming changeovers, at high repeat accuracies of less than 0.005 mm.
HANDLE HEAVY LOADS WITH “BIONIC STRENGTH” MANIPULATOR
The fully-counterbalanced Famatec Friendly ergonomic manipulator from Haeco eliminates back strain and repetitive motion injury and is ideal for stress-free maneuvering and orienting of heavy loads up to 880 lb, almost any object or flat material, smooth or rough, from metal plate to drums. Fully counterbalanced load.
New Class of Hardness Testers for Quality Control
With an intuitive user interface, custom designed optics, USB data communication, LED illumination, six turret positions and integrated digital camera, these MicroMet 6000 Series of instruments from Buehler establish a new class of dead-weight micro-indentation Vickers/Knoop hardness testers.
ALL PURPOSE INDUSTRIAL VACUUM DOES IT ALL
The compressed-air 110 gal Reversible Drum Vac™ from EXAIR Corporation handles coolant, hydraulic oils, spills, sludge, tramp oil and waste water. Coolant sumps are easily refilled, floor spills vacuumed, or contaminated liquids transferred to filtration tanks in minutes.
ANNEALING OVEN PRODUCES SAFER ALUMINUM BASEBALL BATS
This Aluminum Tube Annealing Oven from Lanly can process aluminum tubes up to 20 ft long that are used in manufacturing collegiate and high school baseball bats with newer thin-walled designs that limit the trampoline effect and keep them closer to performing like traditional wooden bats.
NEXT GENERATION SLAT CLEANER FOR LASER CUTTING SYSTEMS
Until a few years ago cleaning slats required hammers and chisels, and many man-hours to complete. In fact, heavily slagged slats were often replaced at a very high expense. But not any more. The new TruTool TSC 100 slat cleaner from Trumpf makes all of that a thing of the past.
Chuck for Clamping Large Thin-Walled Parts
The ROTA NCR precision 6-jaw compensation chuck from Schunk is ideal for clamping thin-walled components and for virtually any turning application on large lathes.
ECONOMICAL REGRINDING OF CUTTING TOOLS
FC-200D and FC-500D Polycrystalline Tool Grinders from Rush Machinery are ideal for economically manufacturing and regrinding of PCD, CVD, PCBN, carbide and HSS tools. They grind angles and radii on turning and milling inserts, boring tools, milling cutters, grooving tools, reamers and special tools.
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