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Video Demonstrates Creation
of a Complex, 24-Station Prog Die
Friday, August 27, 2010
Accurate Die Design, New Berlin, WI, has created a 59-min. video demonstrating the creation of a 24-station strip layout for a complex box-terminal stamping.
The video, posted to the company’s website, offers instruction on using die-design software for overbend and springback, and relaxed springback. It’s divided into eight smaller videos, each less than 8 min. long.
Georgia Service Center Gains ISO Registration
Friday, August 27, 2010
Direct Metals Co. earned ISO 9001: 2008 registration for its headquarters facility in Kennesaw, GA, and for its sister location in Park City, IL. The registration covers the company’s warehousing, sales, fabrication and distribution services. Direct Metals supplies perforated metal, bar grating, expanded metal, safety grating and other products in stainless and carbon steel, aluminum alloys, galvanized steel and fiberglass;
www.directmetals.com.
AP&T Takes on Press Service in Sweden
Thursday, August 26, 2010
For the first time, Swedish press and automation-equipment builder AP&T (with North American headquarters in Monroe, NC) has taken on all of the service needs for a customer’s mechanical and hydraulic presses. The firm announced its first all-inclusive service agreement with Swenox AB, a Swedish manufacturer of automotive parts. AP&T, which previously had established service agreements for mechanical presses, now has overall responsibility for all of presses at Swenox—10 hydraulic models and 17 mechanical. More at
www.apt-usa.com.
