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Wed, 1 May 2013 00:00:00 EST

Pacific Press Technologies, Mr. Carmel, IL, has launched a redesigned website boasting quicker and easier navigation, additional content and more interactivity relevant to the metalforming industry. Peruse the photo- and video-loaded site for details and demonstrations of the firm’s presses, press brakes and shears. Included on the website is an interactive dictionary of industry terminology; www.pacific-press.com.

Servo-Electric Pump Drive Optimizes Hydraulic

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST

German hydraulic-press builder Lasco Umformtechnik GmbH introduces a hydraulic pump directly coupled with a servomotor as an energy-efficient solution to “provide substantial energy savings for companies operating our presses,” says Harald Barnickel, the firm’s head of electrical engineering. At the core of the drive package is a Simotics 1PH8 servomotor from Siemens, which directly drives the hydraulic pump. With a response time of 250 µs, up to 256 axes can be synchronized and precise axis motion and curve profiles executed.

Servo-Drive Flying Cutoff Press

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST

Airam Press Co. Ltd., Covington, OH, has developed a pneumatic flying cutoff press with a servo drive that provides the flexibility to perform stamping and rollforming operations, as well as extrusion applications. Use the press to stamp, punch, cut or pierce, as part of a stamping work cell or as the anchor of a rollforming line.

Success Boils Over When Deep Drawing Replaces Hydroforming

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST

Until mid-2011, All-Clad had outsourced to a hydroforming shop 25 percent of the pots and pans it makes. Much of the outsourced metalforming comprised five of the firm’s biggest hitters, which exceeded the company’s inhouse capabilities based either on blank size or tonnage. After a concerted and highly successful effort made by the company’s manufacturing operations in Canonsburg, PA, to move from batch manufacturing to one-piece flow, completed in 2010, the firm set its sights on bringing production of the hydroformed products inhouse. But rather than stick with hydroforming the large blanks—as large as 24.25-in. dia. used to make a 12-quart stock pot—the firm turned to deep drawing in a hydraulic press.

Baird is Manufacturing Fourslides and Transfer Presses

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST

Baird Machinery Corp. announced that it now is building the new Nilson Model 1-FB fourslide at its plant in Thomaston, CT, in the 700L, 751, 2-F and 3-FB models. It’s also building new U.S. Baird transfer presses in models 2-19, 3-25, 3L-25, 3L-37, 3L-45, 4-44,4-56, 5-51, 5-60 and 5L-51.