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employs a slurry blasting mixture of water and steel grit to remove surface scale, and does not require a protective coating of oil to keep the material from rusting. Stripco’s line can remove scale from hot-rolled steel to 0.375 in. thick at 72 in. wide; coil capacity is 60,000 lb. Learn more on Stripco’s website: www.stripco.com/page/14/EPS.
Red Bud Industries: 618/282-3801; www.redbudindustries.com
Metal-Sourcing Website Adds Attention-Grabbing 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 in the library are videos show- ing an open-top steel-coil train, archi- tectural-steel building panels that change colors, and a robotic automotive-pro-
duction 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 obso- lete inventory.
Metal Resources inc.: www.metalresourcesinc.net
Materials & Coatings
Powerful Stretcher-Leveler
Up and Running in Mississippi
The FerrouSouth toll-processing facility in Iuka, MS, has commissioned what it is calling the most powerful stretcher-leveler in the country. The Butech Bliss machine can produce more than 4 million pounds of stretching force to eradicate internal stress from steel sheet from 1⁄8 to 1⁄2 in. thick by 96 in. long. It’s installed inline with a Herr Voss 1⁄2- by 96-in. 11-roll precision leveler.
FerrouSouth: www.ferrousouth.com; Butech Bliss: www.butechbliss.com
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