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Ontario, Canada; Ada Stampings in Ada, OH; Ten- nessee Stampings in Port- land and Pulaski, TN; and Troquelados Queretaro S. de R.L. de C.V. in Quere- taro, Mexico.
Facilities
The Steel Shop Reengineers a Plant for Press Installation
When metalforming com- pany E & E Manufacturing, Plymouth, MI, recently had to clear an 80- by 120-ft. area of its 250,000-sq.-ft. shop to make room for installation of a press, it called on turnkey design and build company The Steel Shop, Chesterfield, MI, to manage the project.
The Steel Shop’s crafts- men removed an existing building column and rein- forced the roof to make way for the equipment needed to construct the press pit and install the press. They also designed, fabricated and installed a mezzanine for the press controls and electrical service lines.
Belgian Service Center Adds Blanking Line with Stretcher Leveler
To meet customer demands for laser-quality low-stress material, Coil Pro, in Gent Zwijnaarde, Belgium, installed an 84-in.-wide blanking line with a stretcher leveler, from Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, IL. The line, with maximum weight capacity of 80,000 lb., includes a coil stage and load system, uncoiler, peeler breaker,
crop shear, dust collector, edge-trim system, stretcher leveler, inkjet-marking sys- tem, heavy-gauge grip feed, variable-rake shear, and drop stacker with end-dis- charge rollouts.
Chicago Stamper Relocates to Larger Wheeling Facility
Wood Brothers Steel Stamping relocated from Chicago to a recently acquired 30,300-sq.-ft. facility in Wheeling, IL, tak- ing advantage of improved shipping and receiving capabilities and Cook Coun- ty’s tax-reduction program.
Bosch Rexroth
Opens Regional
Service Center in Dallas
Manufacturers in need of repair, upgrade and mainte- nance of Rexroth hydraulic products—warranty services, repairs and conversions— now can add a new 14,000- sq.-ft. regional service cen- ter in Dallas, TX, to their list of resources. The serv- ice center will support cus- tomers in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ala- bama and parts of Florida. It features new hydraulics test stands and will service Rexroth motors and pumps, as well as proportional and servo valves.
BMW Installs Schuler Servo-Press Lines
The Schuler Group has installed two new stamping- press lines at the BMW Group’s facilities in Leipzig and Regensburg, Germany. The lines feature Schuler’s ServoDirect technology,
AP&T Automates Mechanical Presses Stand Alone Presses
Tandem Lines
Transfer Presses
Versatility
– Loading/Unloading – Front/Rear Transfer
– Traditional Side windows Transfer – From either
Blanks or Coil
blank
loaders,
crossbar-
feeder
automation and end-of-line
automation. BMW
will install a third
Schuler line at its Munich plant in 2011.
The line in Leipzig, launched on September 9, 2009, will produce more than 40 parts for the BMW 1 and X1 series. The 320- ft. line includes six servo presses linked by seven crossbar feeders, with a total press force of 11,600 tons, including a 2800-ton leadoff press; speed capaci- ty is 17 strokes/min.
Plastic-Molding Company Moves into Metal Stamping and Assembly
Dickten Masch Plastics LLC (DMP), Nashotah, WI, a thermoplastic and ther- moset molder, has entered the metal stamping and assembly business by taking over the dipstick and tube business from the produc- tion facility of Charter Auto- motive, in nearby Milwau- kee. DMP, which had been supplying molded plastic
components to Charter Automotive, has installed and begun to run in limited production one of Charter’s stamping presses, and by the end of 2010 it expects to have four of Charter’s presses—from 50 to 300 tons—up and running.
In addition, 60 Charter employees will transfer to DMP’s facility. The company has contracts with GM, Chrysler and Nissan, a ver- bal commitment from Ford, and is in negotiations with Honda, according to an arti- cle in BizTimes Milwaukee.
Dorner Launches Conveyor Hotline
Receive immediate tech- nical assistance with con- veyor-related problems from the newly launched Dorner Mfg. hotline: 800/351-8712. Call from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT to ask the firm’s
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