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Business Profile: Tripar
- By Canadian Metalworking
- Mar 9, 2015
- Metalworking
- Article
Over four days in early November 2014, Montreal-based Tripar Inc. opened its doors to customers and suppliers to celebrate the metal stamping company’s 65th anniversary. This event was made doubly special when 91-year-old Ben Sevack, the company’s founder and chairman, made an...
- From Canadian Industrial Machinery
Giving Back
- By Sue Roberts
- Mar 6, 2015
- Made In Canada
- Article
The CWA Foundation has two goals: to increase welding safety awareness so those entering the profession learn and work in safe environments and to create a flow of future, qualified tradespeople to step into the positions left open by retiring welders.
- From Canadian Industrial Machinery
Redefine Your Innovation to Survive Industry Transformation
- By Larry Korak
- Mar 6, 2015
- Management
- Article
Survey: Seventy percent of manufacturing executives said they would at least double their R&D investment over the next two years.
The ‘in’ metal for manufacturers
- By Nate Hendley
- Mar 2, 2015
- Cutting Tools
- Article
Known by the symbol ‘Ti’, titanium is an increasingly popular ‘go-to’ metal for manufacturers. “Titanium is both strong and lightweight—as strong as steel but weighing only 56 per cent as much as steel. That gives it the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any...
- From Canadian Industrial Machinery
Form-Fitting Bending Cells
- By Sue Roberts
- Feb 25, 2015
- Fabricating
- Article
Small parts with complex bends are being produced in integrated press brake cells specifically designed to work efficiently with small blanks.
Unwinding steel coils
- By Nestor Gula
- Feb 25, 2015
- Fabricating
- Article
Tucked into an industrial area in the east end of Toronto, Mecon Industries is a privately held Canadian firm that specializes in making coil handling equipment—the machinery that unrolls the coils and the straighteners that make the coiled steel flat so it can be worked by other machinery....
Keep on spinning
- By Lindsay Luminoso
- Feb 23, 2015
- Metalworking
- Article
“Out of sight, out of mind.” When it comes to spindle maintenance, this adage is more common than not. However, when manufacturers take this approach, they can often find themselves with spindle failures that can be both costly to repair and cause downtime and lags in production....
- From Canadian Industrial Machinery
Are You Imprisoned by Your Information Technology?
- By Lori Payne
- Feb 20, 2015
- Management
- Article
With rapid application deployment platforms, software can be tailored to an individual company's needs in a very short time frame.
- From Canadian Industrial Machinery
Technology Spotlight: Machine Tool Probing Bumps Into the Digital World
- By Joe Thompson
- Feb 18, 2015
- Measurement
- Article
New technology uses a hybrid of both radio and infrared transmission in part probing.
- From Canadian Industrial Machinery
Cutting High- Taper Angles with Soft Wire
- By Steve Bond
- Feb 18, 2015
- Metalworking
- Article
Soft wire bends easier, especially at the wire gauge tangent point, creating higher accuracy and reducing breakage.
Gas up the laser
- By Nestor Gula
- Feb 18, 2015
- Fabricating
- Article
When it comes to deciding on the right type of laser cutting system, fiber lasers have been capturing recent headlines due to their speed advantages. However, CO2 lasers have been supplying much of the laser cutting capacity in North America. The fact of the matter is CO2 lasers have a stronghold...
Business Profile: D&D Precision
- By Canadian Metalworking
- Feb 17, 2015
- Metalworking
- Article
It’s Friday afternoon, just a week before Christmas, and the two owners of D&D Precision, a small machining shop in Mississauga, are preparing to go make some visits—dropping in on their loyal customers to share some holiday cheer and express their appreciation for another year of...
Business Profile: Grant Metal
- By Canadian Metalworking
- Feb 13, 2015
- Fabricating
- Article
Three main rules for success in the real estate market are: location, location, location. And that same maxim could also apply to the dramatic success of Grant Metal Products Ltd. in Rocky View, Alberta, a custom manufacturer of sheet metal products for the construction, glazing, and signage...
- From Canadian Industrial Machinery
Doing The Hard Work
- By Sue Roberts
- Feb 11, 2015
- Fabricating
- Article
Workhardening or change to the material properties can be a non-issue if the process is handled appropriately and the saw blade digs in to cut, not rub, the material.
Clearing the air
- By Nestor Gula
- Feb 11, 2015
- Welding
- Article
The days of grimy smoke-filled manufacturing plants are long gone. There is an ongoing push to make the work place healthier, and to this end there are more regulations coming that will mandate the reduction of allowable exposure to the harmful fumes that are created during the welding process....
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