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buildings, has commissioned its seventh Schuler blanking line. The line includes a decoil- er, Vario straightener, coil lam- inator, roll feed, Vario hole punch and cut-to-length shear, and handles coils to 12 metric tons and 1600-mm wide. Sheet thickness range: 0.75 to 4.0 mm.
by 12 by 18-in. work envelope) in an environmentally con- trolled room eliminates con- cerns regarding discoloration of metal parts.
gies, Lake Mary, FL, cut the ribbon on its new Mexico Service Center on April 8, 2014. The 22,000-sq.-ft. facility in Monterrey dedi- cates 7200-sq. ft. to service repair, and also enables demonstrations and technol- ogy test drives for customers.
stop and looping modes, and a heavy-gauge drop stacker mounted directly to a variable- rake shear.
Heattreater Equipped for Small to Midsized Loads
The Cascadia Metals facili- ty in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, has commissioned two state-of-the-art processing lines from Herr-Voss Stamco: a Strand Extensioner slitting line (50,000-lb. by 72-in.-wide coil capacity), and a cut-to- length line (0.024- to 0.135-in. thickness capacity) with a pre- cision leveler and Electro Dis- charge Texturing technology.
McNeilus Steel
Adds Fourth Stretcher- Leveling Line
ThyssenKrupp Materials NA, Inc. has opened a new 100,000-sq.-ft. steel- and alu- minum coil-processing and distribution service center in Woodstock, AL. The $15-mil- lion facility, also occupied by Ken-Mac Metals, houses two cut-to-length lines and a 72- in.-wide slitter.
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, PA, has installed a high-tempera- ture, high-purity, production- scale 2-bar vacuum furnace for heattreating and brazing small to midsized loads. The investment is aimed at satisfy- ing customers in the medical, tool and die, aerospace, nuclear and other industries. Locating the new furnace (12
The McNeilus Steel service center in Fond Du Lac, WI, has commissioned a 1⁄2-in.-capaci- ty Red Bud Industries cut-to- length (CTL) line, the fourth Red Bud stretcher-leveling line that McNeilus has installed. The firm operates two Red Bud lines at its facility in Dodge Center, MN, and one line at its plant in Fargo, ND. Featured on the latest CTL line: the ability to run in start-
OMCO Expanding Rollforming Operations
Canadian Service Center Adds CTL Line
Alabama Welcomes 100,000-sq.-ft. Coil- Processing Plant
Faro to Open Mexico Service Location
Custom rollformer OMCO, Wickliffe, OH, has broken ground on a 42,000-sq.-ft. expansion to its facility in Pierceton, IN. The $6.7 million
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