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Materials & Coatings
Register to Attend Great Designs in Steel
Plan now to head to Detroit (Livo- nia, MI) Wednesday, May 16, to take in the annual Great Designs in Steel event. GDIS is the premier forum for uncovering the latest trends and appli- cations in automotive steel, including conference tracks on advanced high- strength alloys, automotive safety and metalforming and tooling tech- nology. Learn more and register to attend at www.autosteel.org.
Ordered: The Largest Slitter in North America
A new TMK Ipsco pipe-manufacturing facility under construction in Wilder, KY, will house what’s being called the largest slitter in North America, a new 0.625- by 87-in. line. The slitter, which will be owned and operated on a toll basis for TMK Ipsco by Ferrous Metal Processing, will be capa- ble of processing master coils from 30 to 87 in. weighing as much as 82,000 lb. TMK Ipsco: 866/654-0078; www.tmk-ipsco.com
Metal-Sourcing Website Adds Application Videos
Metal Resources Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, has launched a new website stocked with a series of noteworthy videos high- lighting—in unusual ways—the many applications for fabricated metal products.
Included are videos showing an open-top steel-coil train, architectural-steel build- ing panels that change colors, and a robotic automotive-production line. Metal Resources, which sells to customer specifications, provides coil, plate, sheet and bar in carbon- and stainless-steel and aluminum alloys, and is a purchaser of excess and obsolete inventory.
Metal Resources: www.metalresourcesinc.net
Stainless-Steel Service Center Adds Fourth Waterjet-Cutting Machine
Penn Stainless Products, Inc., Quak- ertown, PA, has added a Flow Corp. Mach 3 waterjet-cutting system to its stable, capable of cutting sheet and plate to 78 by 288 in. The company’s fourth water- jet-cutting machine boasts a 94,000-psi pump that boosts cutting speed by as much as 45 percent compared to using
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