Tube and Pipe Fabrication - The tube and pipe fabrication technology area covers sawing (band, circular, and friction) and other cutting processes, such as abrasive, flame, laser, oxyfuel, plasma, and waterjet. It also discusses forming processes, including bending and end forming. Finally, it includes a handful of miscellaneous processes, such as trimming, beveling, finning, grooving, threading, and spinning.
Wilmington, Ohio-based Innovative Engineered Solutions Inc. (iES) has hired Dave Schaefer as sales director. Black Cast Iron Pipe Fittings
Steve Geroski started his laser cutting job shop, Red Horizon Engineering , knowing the intrinsic advantages large fabricators have over small shops like his. But he’s using software to even the odds.
Bend-Tech has introduced square and rectangular plug assemblies for plasma cutting aluminum and stainless nonround tube and pipe.
Shane Shook of Andy J. Egan Co. has developed a time-saving weld procedure in partnership with the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA).
When considering upgrades, repairs, or new tube bending machines, metal fabrication shops should look beyond the equipment's technical capabilities and focus on business as a whole.
Mundo-Tech has taken the product of a team brainstorming session, 3D-printed fixtures, and turned it into an offshoot business that is now presenting a whole new world of possibilities.
For Yoshimura R&D, reducing setup time is critically important. The company has found one way to do that is reducing inspection time.
The FLANGEHOG 110 manually operated hand tool from Esco Tool imparts a phonographic finish on RF and FF gasket seats on-site and can produce a smooth and stock finish per ASME B16.5 standards.
Randbright (Dry/Wet) Centerless Deburring, Finishing, and Polishing Machines run a variety of abrasive belts, finishing wheels, wire brushes, and buffing wheels for grinding, finishing, deburring, polishing, and cleaning. Our modular machines utilize common platforms, multi-head configuration, and locally sourced component parts. More Information.
Laguna Tools Inc. has introduced the Smart-Cut Plasma CNC line.
In just five years, Precision Tube Laser Owner Jordan Yost has used a relentless work ethic, high-end machines, and a hunger to learn everything he can about the manufacturing industry to build a rapidly growing fabrication business.
With more than 2,000 exhibitors from 65 countries, wire and Tube 2024 will be held April 15-19, 2024, at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Esco Tool offers the Commander MILLHOG ID clamping pipe beveling machine for prepping all schedules of pipe from 3.75 in ID to 14 in. OD using one mandrel and seven sets of clamps.
It's not uncommon for metal fabrication shops to struggle with producing precise parts on tube bending machines. The solution? Often times it comes down to simple math and communicating with the machine manufacturer.
Looking at the European skilled welding situation, KM MONT decided to invest not in more welders, but in automation to free its welders to do jobs that only human welders can do.
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
Shanen Aranmor says she was once described as a life coach under a welding helmet. She's taken that...
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