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Facilities
Dallas Industries Delivers Feed Line to ITW Drawform
Dallas Industries has delivered a new conventional feed line to ITW Drawform, Zeeland, MI, a contract manu- facturer of deep-drawn metal stampings. The line, designed to feed lighter-gauge material, has provisions to avoid marking cosmetic materials. It can handle coil widths to 30 in. with a sheet thickness to 0.050 in. at full width, and is rated for handling coil weights to 20,000 lb.
Included with the line: a coil reel with load car that includes a coil restrictor (holddown) and automated coil guide rolls. Additionally, the reel features a dual brake system, including an Eaton AirFlex brake ideal for use with thin, sensitive materials. Dallas’ SyncLoop technology monitors slack-loop depths and adjusts payout speed based on the line speed average from the feeder. The feed also includes triple-roll (per side) hand-crank-adjusted edge guides with self-centering and independent adjustments for squaring of soft and light-gauge materials. And, the line is built on an Allen- Bradley Ethernet-based control architecture and fea- tures ProfileSelect, a unique feed control system that a cam-motion (sinusoidal) smooth profile.
New thyssenkrupp Materials Service Center Coming to San Luis Potosi
thyssenkrupp Materials Services has announced plans to expand its service center footprint in North America by investing $37 million to build a new facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The new Materials de Mexico service center will support the future viability of the automotive supply industry in Mexico, and create some 65 jobs. The centerpiece of the new location: a Schuler blanking line that will cut aluminum and high-strength-steel blanks.
The new site in San Luis Potosí, scheduled to start operations in mid-2023, will join with the company’s existing service center in Silao, which also fea- tures a Schuler aluminum blanking line, and facilities in Saltillo and Puebla.
Schuler Adds Service Center to its HQ in Germany
Schuler has launched a new service center at its headquarters facility in Göppingen, Germany, featuring a warehouse with more than 10,000 spare parts from which customers receive their order within 24 hr. And, if a desired part or required component is not among them, the firm pledges to provide inhouse production using its extensive machinery and around-the- clock availability.
In addition, the new service center supplies high-precision components for lines from manufacturers other than Schuler. These include pressure points, transfers, drive trains, eccentric wheels, slides, drawing cushions, hydraulic cylinders and control blocks.
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