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Ace Metal Crafts Moves to New Digs
Friday, August 26, 2011
An 82,000-sq.-ft. plant in Bensenville, IL, is the new home of Ace Metal Crafts, specialists in stainless-steel fabrication. The firm provides laser cutting, forming, welding, sanitary finishes and value engineering. It has stocked the new, larger plant with plenty of new equipment, including a third laser-cutting machine and a nitrogen-generating system to support its laser-processing operations, as well as additional welding equipment that boosts capacity by 30 percent. More at
www.acemetal.com.
Oregon Metal Slitters to Add
Heavy-Gauge CTL Line
Friday, August 26, 2011
Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, IL, will provide a new heavy-gauge cut-to-length line to Oregon Metal Slitters, Portland, OR, with blanking capacity to ½ in. The line will process coils to 50,000 lb. and 72 in. wide, and will include a variable-rake shear, drop stacker, automatically lowering stack table and end-discharge rollouts;
www.redbudindustries.com. More about Oregon Metal Slitters at
www.oregonmetal.com.
Spartanburg Steel Installs Coe Press-Feed Line
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, MI, has shipped a 30-in. by 10,000-lb. coil-feed line to Spartanburg Steel Products, Spartanburg, SC, a manufacturer of metal stampings and welded subassemblies for the automotive, agricultural, lawn-and-garden and heavy-truck industries. The coil line can process steel to ¼ in. thick at 50,000-psi yield strength; its servo roll feed offers a maximum roll speed of 317 ft./min. Included is a power straightener with a 20-hp ac variable-speed drive and digital control, and an alligator-style peeler dekinker station for hands-free threading. More at
www.cpec.com; Spartanburg Steel is online at
www.ssprod.com.
