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Lease Your Next Lubrication System
Friday, April 12, 2002
A-S Mfg., Inc., Cleveland, OH, provider of die/stock lubrication technology, has introduced an equipment-leasing program for its TeK-Spray and Polaras stock-lubrication systems. For details, call (800) 659-1540.
Heavy-Duty Shearwelder Goes in at Maverick Tube
Friday, April 12, 2002
Guild International, Inc., Bedford, OH, has completed startup of its heavy-duty Model DMI 650-52 Shearwelder at Maverick Tube LLC, Blythville, AK. The unit is installed on a 16-in.-diameter pipe mill that can handle strip up to 0.650-in. thick at up to 100,000 PSI yield strength. The shearwelder comprises entry and exit passline rolls, heavy-duty entry and exit side guides, a hydraulic shear rated to 145 tons, and weld clamps mounted on an indexing platen to allow for automatic strip fitup. A pair of gas-metal-arc-welding stations weld in the center of the strip and on the front edge of the strip simultaneously, to minimize weld time. Learn more at
www.guildint.com.
Tariff-Free European Steel?
Friday, April 12, 2002
News today out of the UK has it that U.S. treasury secretary Paul O'Neill has vowed that many of the 1000 applications made by EU steel manufacturers for exemption from the U.S. steel tariffs would be "favourably decided." O'Neill is in Britain for talks with chancellor Gordon Brown about terrorism.
