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Fabrication-Tooling Website en Espanol
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wilson Tool International, White bear Lake, MN, provider of tooling for punch presses, press brakes and stamping presses, has launched a Spanish-language version of its website. The new site joins Wilson Tool sites available in English, French, German and Chinese.
New Leader at SME
Monday, January 21, 2013
Dennis Bray, president and CEO of Contour Precision Group, Clover, SC, has been elected 2013 president of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Dearborn, MI. Contour Precision Group includes Huffman, a manufacturer of equipment abrasive-waterjet cutting, super-abrasive grinding and additive laser processing. SME is online at www.sme.org/.
Medical-Device Maker Specs Hydraulic Press to Form Titanium
Friday, January 18, 2013
Greenerd Press & Machine Co., Nashua, NH, has designed and built a 75-ton hydraulic press to form titanium blanks for a medical-device manufacturer. The press boasts a 35-ton cushion cylinder (also used as a knockout) and a secondary ram-mounted 20-ton cushion/eject with proportionally controlled speed for the eject function. Also included is hydraulic clamping, RFID identification of tooling and closed-loop control of the tooling heaters to maintain a drawing temperature of 600 F within plus or minus 1 deg. The main ram features two pressing circuits—one to control speed between 0.2 and 2.0 in./min, the other between 7.2 and 36 in./min. More at www.greenerd.com/.
