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Tube-Bending Machine Maker Expanding Operations

AddisonMcKee Inc., Wilmington, OH, a manufacturer of tube-bending and end-forming equipment, has opened a new manufacturing facility in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The facility should be operational some time this spring, to serve that market and to develop a new product line for making mufflers and other custom engineered equipment. It appointed Jim Sabine general manager of the Canadian operation and Doug DeVouge vice president of sales and development—muffler technology. Learn more at www.addisonmckee.com.

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The Southeast Welcomes a New Steel Processor

MISA Metal Fabricating, the joint-venture company that combines Marubeni and Itochu, two large Japanese steel companies, has opened a new steel-processing and fabrication center in Covington, GA, near Atlanta. It will serve the southern United States with an additional capacity of 3000-metric-tons of steel per month. It joins the original U.S. MISA facility in Louisville, KY, with similar capacity. The firm supplies tubing, unexposed automotive structural components, and a variety of stamped, drawn and rollformed parts, to manufacturers of forklifts, construction-machinery and agricultural equipment. Learn more at www.misteel.com.

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Stamper Adds Space-Saving Servo Feed

ODM Tool & Manufacturing, McCook, IL, has taken delivery of a new Space-Saver servo-feed system from Dallas Industries, Troy, MI, which, it says, takes up half to two-thirds the amount of floor space of a conventional feed system. The feed can handle coils to 30,000 lb., 48 in. wide, 72-in. dia. It can feed ½-in.-thick stock to 48 in. wide. Included with the setup is motorized 14-in. passline-height adjustment; hydraulic press-attachment clamps; a 5-in.-dia. piloting straightener mounted on the entry end; and a combination coil restrictor, peeler, threader and debender. Learn more at www.dallasindustries.com.

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