Production Engineering Solutions

 

Profiling & Advanced Sheetmetal

  • 06.02.2013Breaking new ground

    PES_Feb13_F_Profiling_World machinery1

    A new eX3015 4.5kW laser cutting machine from Mitsubishi Electric, supplied by laser cutting specialist, World Machinery, has significantly improved manufacturing flexibility and capacity at PSS, a Norfolk-based manufacturer of power steering components and other......

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  • 06.02.2013On the cutting edge

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    The Stanley Knife has become a familiar product both around the home and in industry over the years but now powder deposition delivered with the aid of a Trumpf laser is setting new standards in its knife blade technology, making it sharper for longer. Solutions......

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  • 05.02.2013Putting on the brakes 

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    To ensure it retains one of the best equipped profiling and fabrication shops in the UK, Nottingham-based subcontract sheet and plate processing specialist, Lasershape, has installed a new Bystronic Xpert 7-axis CNC press brake with laser measuring capability. The......

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  • 04.02.2013Bending into small batch production

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    An LVD 400t, 8.1m PPEB press brake with Easy-Form adaptive bending system and CADMAN-B 3D offline programming software has allowed agricultural equipment manufacturer K-Two Sales to bring large panel forming in-house, giving it control over its production schedules and......

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  • 27.11.2012Seeing the light

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    The choice between CO2 and solid state/fibre lasers is a subject of much discussion in the world of sheetmetal fabrication. Ed Hill visited Trumpf UK to discover why it thinks there is room for both and see firsthand the other machines offered in its range....

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  • 17.09.2012Savings all round

    PES_Sep12_F_Profiling_Unison

    A leading subcontract manufacturer of large diameter tubular parts to the US heavy truck industry, Tube Specialties Company (TSCO), is installing five new generation CNC tube bending machines from Unison....

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  • 03.07.2012High profile manufacturing

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    As the founding member of the P.P. Group of companies, St Helens-based P.P. Profiles has over 35 years’ experience in the steel plate industry specialising in the laser, bevel plasma, flame and high density plasma profiling of carbon steels. Dave Tudor reports. ...

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  • 08.05.2012The sweet smell of success

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    It’s not just the metalcutting fraternity riding on the crest of a wave at the moment – things are also pretty rosy for the sheetmetal sector as leading manufacturer of sheetmetal fabrication equipment and industrial lasers Trumpf will testify....

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  • 06.02.2012

    Hot off the press

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    Press and Shear Machinery has been selected as sole distributor in the UK and Ireland for the Yawei-Nisshinbo range of sheetmetal machinery. ...

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  • 06.02.2012

    Fine with fibre

    PES_Feb12_F_Profiling_Bystronic2

    Investment by Brattonsound Engineering in a Bystronic BySprint Fiber laser cutting system has resulted in the Sutton, Surrey based manufacturer of gun safes and gas fires doubling its laser cut component output. And as a consequence of the increase in speed of......

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