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Numatx founder and owner Mark Swinford will join the Hy- Tech staff as vice president of business development-global aerospace.
Associations
Internet
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WorldAutoSteel, the auto- motive arm of the steel-pro- ducer trade group World Steel Association, announced the launch of a video campaign, SteelYourWorld, focused on automotive design attributes using steel. The series will cover lightweighting, safety, future innovators, environ- mental performance and advanced high-strength steels, with the intent of spreading knowledge about steel’s contributions as a design material.
WorldAutoSteel Launches SteelYourWorld
Video Campaign
Spring, wire-form and metal-stamping manufacturer Newcomb Spring Corp., Decatur GA, has launched a new company website, www.newcombspring.com. The redesigned site features a new layout, an interactive product overview on the home page and content that is opti- mized for users. Newcomb’s Springulator spring-calculator tools also are integrated into the website, allowing for online quote requests.
Newcomb Spring Launches New Website
Certifications
Straight cut.
Curved cut.
Wave cut.
Solar Atmospheres, a provider of vacuum-heattreat- ing and brazing services, announced that its Greenville, SC, facility has earned an expansion in the scope of its NADCAP approval to include vacuum-furnace brazing for aerospace manufacturing. The expansion dovetails with the growing aerospace-manufac- turing cluster in the southeast- ern United States.
Variable profile cut with large quantities? The Schuler oscillating die enables straight cut, curved cut and wave cut – even oscillating – on just one base plate. The cutting process is carried out by a conventional press (mechani- cal or hydraulic) or a servo press. Get in touch, we would be happy to advise you.
Your benefits:
Easy maintenance
Suitable for tailored blanks
Quick die changeover times for the entire unit as well as
the upper part of the shears
Material savings
Suitable for very large quantities
Better predictability
sic.info@schulergroup.com www.schulergroup.com/automation
Great Designs in Steel 2018 Accepting Presenter Abstract Submissions
The Steel Market Develop- ment Institute (SMDI) has issued a call for abstract sub- missions for technical presen- tations to be given at the 17th Annual Great Designs in Steel seminar, scheduled to take place on May 16, 2018, at Laurel Manor Conference cen- ter in Livonia, MI. The event brings the automotive and steel industries together to highlight the latest trends in steel engineering, design, technology and policy.
Facilities
Solar Atmospheres SC Facility Expands NADCAP Certification
Abstracts should be sub- mitted to Tamara Makarian, SMDI’s program supervisor, by December 1, 2017.
Flat-roll-steel processer Magic Coil Products, LLC, But- ler, IN, has placed an order for a Braner/Loopco turret-head slitting line with inline shape- correction leveling. The line includes performance-enhanc- ing features such as automat- ic cruise control, time-saving
For submission guidelines and additional information, visit www.autosteel.org.
Magic Coil Orders Turret-Head Slitting Line from Braner/Loopco
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