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systems outfitted with the TeraBlade engines will be marketed as “Powered by TeraDiode” under the Pana- sonic brand.
eral new Trumpf machines for cutting plate, sheet and tube, and allows the company to realign its production flow.
ity in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexi- co, soon will become the first Mexico-based facility to offer blanking of aluminum and advanced high-strength steels. The plant is at work constructing a 55,000-sq.-ft. addition that will house a new Schuler blanking line to boost its capacity by nearly 70 per- cent, to 270,000 metric tons/yr. The line will be capable of blanking high-strength steel to 1500-MPa tensile strength.
6-kW Fiber Laser Kicks
reduce operating expenses as well as costs related to down- time and maintenance.
Internet
Direct-diode lasers com- pare favorably to incumbent fiber and disk lasers in afford- ability, reliability and efficien- cy, according to TeraDiode offi- cials, due to the economy of scale of diode-laser-bar tech- nology and TeraDiode’s scala- ble wavelength beam combi- nation technology.
JMP Engineering Opens New Locations
New branch offices in Houston, TX, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada represent the ninth and tenth North American locations of JMP Engineering Inc., an engineer- ing and system-integration company specializing in automation, controls and information systems.
Website Features Interactive Specification Tools for Washers and Stampings
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Boker’s, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, has unveiled a website featuring two interactive speci- fication tools for washers and stampings. The Search Wash- er Widget allows users to iden- tify optimal washer tools best suited for their specific appli- cation from more than 29,000 available flat-washer tools, with the ability to sort their search by outside and inside diameter, or thickness. The Stamping Quick Quote Widget expedites the quote process
Facilities
Schuler Blanking
Line Headed to ThyssenKrupp Materials de Mexico
Custom metal fabricator D&S Manufacturing, Black River Falls, WI, has replaced an aging CO2 laser-cutting machine with a 6-kW Bystron- ic BySprint Pro 4020 fiber- laser machine. In addition to its enhanced capabilities, the new machine promises to
Ohio Laser Expands Fab Shop
Metal fabricator Ohio Laser has ushered in the new year by adding 22,000 sq. ft. to its facility in Plain City, OH. The addition makes room for sev-
As part of an expansion project slated for completion late in 2015, the Thyssen- Krupp Materials blanking facil-
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