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Tech Update
tenance advice, while we’ve also been helpful to them with die-design ideas.”
die design and performance characteris- tics in the press has created a real synergy with our engineers, who bring decades of press design and die-handling mechanics to the task.”
“The knowledge we’ve shared with and acquired from Ultratech has made us both stronger players in the market today,” Heim observes.
Ultratech’s partner agrees.
“The relationship has benefited both of our companies over the years,” says Katie Heim, Heim Group president. “As our industry knows, the die dictates the press and we’ve worked closely with Ultratech, as this particular customer’s knowledge of
Heim Group quite often is asked by its customers for a turnkey package, making partnerships and the sharing of expertise vital to success.
She adds that the decline in the work- force numbers and equipment manufac- turers based in America has created the need for companies such as U.S.-based Heim Group to be more proactive in the turnkey area, as customers today seek this assistance on a much more frequent basis.
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Expanded Metalforming, Ironworking Tooling Catalog
American Punch Co., Euclid, OH, has delivered its expanded 68-page catalog, showcasing an extensive inventory of met- alforming tooling. It includes detailed drawings and dimensions of tooling such as punch-
es and
dies,
shear
blades,
coupling
nuts and
other
related tooling. Also listed: stock sizes of tooling avail- able for immediate shipping.
In addition to tooling available from American Punch, the catalog contains important tips and industry advice for successful punching, proper punch and die setup; and relative calculations for deter- mining required tonnage, diagonals and more.
American Punch manufactures punch- es, dies, shear blades and other tooling used in the structural-steel and metal- fabricating industries. Also, American Punch supplies precision die components to the stamping, rollforming and metal- forming industries. www.americanpunchco.com
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