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Most separable fluid fittings are of a flare or flareless design. These, as well as some face-sealing types, rely on metal-to-metal contact between the sealing surfaces of a male connector [...]

Kropp Forge, Cicero, IL is a forger of aerospace components, known for its expertise with difficult-to-forge materials like titanium, high-temperature nickel and stainless alloys. A vital part of its extensive [...]

A new development by WOODINGS INDUSTRIAL CORP. is its high-pressure compact hydraulic clay gun for older blast furnaces with limited cast house area. The new gun is built with capabilities [...]

A line of programmable limit switches introduced by TOLEDO TRANSDUCERS control actions like air blow-off, feed, part lubrication, and similar functions, and eliminate the time involved with manually adjustable switches [...]

Stamco, a GENSYSTEMS division, recently unveiled a new automated slitter design that makes quick changes, necessary for short runs, with fully automatic knife positioning for up to six cuts controlled [...]

Foamfrax insulation is a new high-temperature lining product offered by UNIFRAX for replacing fiber linings, lining over refractory, or furnace lining patches. This monolithic is a three-component system of specially [...]

The ALTECH JHM LTD. Metal Skimming System is fully automated equipment designed to skim dross from crucibles containing untreated molten aluminium. Most smelters pretreat their raw aluminium metal as it [...]

To all those metalproducers worrying about their futures in e-business once the marketplaces have closed: hold on, there are solutions. There are dozens and dozens of solutions, and they are [...]

Reliance Metalcenter purchased a 10-gage, 72 in.-wide precision blanking line from Red Bud Industries for its Colorado Springs, CO, facility. It will process cold-rolled and stainless steel coils up to [...]

When straight molds were installed in the place of curved molds on the two strands on the caster in Ispat Inland's No. 4 BOF shop in East Chicago, IN, sophisticated [...]

Reynolds' captive carton converting operation counts on reliable components from Montalvo to maintain its high-volume operation. At 425,000 sq ft, the Bellwood printing plant of Reynolds Metals Co., located in [...]

The Tensor pump introduced by METAULLICS SYSTEMS last month combine durable materials and improved design for a more reliable and productive molten metal pump that needs less maintenance and is [...]

The DELAVAN Bypass atomizing nozzle improves scrubber and electrostatic precipitator control and performance, and reduces pumping load and power consumption. It also quenches a wide range of gas flows with [...]

Products Flat product casting, rolling and processing; automation; long product rolling mills; steelmaking plants; reheating systems; conditioning, drawing, finishing lines; specialty mills and strip finishing lines. Capabilities Professional engineering skills, [...]

The PVS800 portable video remote-control system that CATTRONTHEIMAG has introduced is intended for use in areas where direct line-of-sight remote-control operations would be unsafe. It can control input from three [...]

Scotch-Brite RS surface-condition discs from 3M combine the conditioning quality of non-woven materials with the aggressive cut of 3M's Cubitron abrasive grain, for a family of discs that performs consistently [...]

CHICAGO SLITTER, a builder of coil-processing equipment, is introducing a dual-head rotary scrap slicer featuring: * Adjustable knife-clearance with digital read-out for precise, fast, and efficient knife cutting--resulting in, long [...]

A new cradle/straightener/feeder combination from SESCO PRODUCTS GROUP reduces floor space by up to 50% (compared to slack-loop set-ups), eliminating the loop pit and reducing the need for other in-line [...]

A new version of W.L. GORE & ASSOC.'s Amazon filter bags for dry-particulate filtration are more durable and improve air flow. Designed for pulse-jet baghouses operating at up to 400[degrees]F, [...]

The Model 8104 electric arc furnace analyzer by NOVA ANALYTICAL SYSTEMS INC. analyzes [O.sub.2], CO, [CO.sub.2], and [H.sub.2] for post-combustion processes. Features promoted include automatic calibration with remote initiate capability, [...]

LAND INFRARED has a new dedicated system for non-contact temperature measurement of aluminum extrusions at the quench exit, completing the package of temp-measuring devices for extruders. The AQTS system ensures [...]

Gebruder Kemper, a processor in Olpe, Germany, placed an order with Danieli Frohling for a four-high reversing cold mill to roll copper alloy strip--mainly CuSn--from 16 to 2.5 mm thick [...]

D. L. Schroeder & Assoc., Pittsburgh, has a contract from Helliniki Haylvourgia, Athens, Greece, to supply equipment and software for foamy-slag control in its EAF melt [...]

Modern Equipment Co., Inc., Port Washington, WI, and Kuttner GmbH & Company, Essen, Germany, have joined forces to market global foundry technology in North America. The new company, Kuttner-Modern LLC, [...]

Inductotherm Corp., Rancocas, NJ, has acquired HI T.E.Q. Inc. of Miamisburg, OH. HI T.E.Q. manufactures molten aluminum processing systems for melting, degassing, filtration and molten metal transfer. John H. Mortimer, [...]

A British firm, EA TECHNOLOGY, has demonstrated a new, electrolytic technology that removes scale from heat-treated stainless steel faster than conventional acid treatments and uses up to 75% less power [...]

When maintenance issues negatively impact uptime, workflow, and the bottom line, changes must be made. Today, plant managers running 24/7 operations must maintain consistent uptime. To ensure that the production [...]

A series of computer-based training programs offering practical, time-effective methods to develop employee skills to improve business processes and systems is available from 4A BETTERBUSINESS. Skills addressed in the programs [...]

ABB's new DCE 400 Plus series DC drives are available as nonregenerative or regenerative units, and range from 5 to 150 HP, with 230-500 V inputs and 20-260 A output [...]

The Active/Alliance modular electronic vehicle scale has a pre-built deck (15-25 ft X 10, 12, or 14 ft) and can be assembled on site, without welding, making it suitable for [...]

Atlax in Apizaco, Mexico, started up the new 400,000-mtpy specialty bar mill Danieli completed in [...]

* Flat Rock Metal Processing is adding a new inspection/slitting line in its Eldridge, IA, plant. The Stamco coil-processing equipment, supplied by GenSystems Inc., will process 80-in, coils up to [...]

Inductotherm Corp., based in Rancocas, NJ, is the world's leading manufacturer of induction furnaces for metal producers. With manufacturing facilities in 14 countries, Inductotherm has built more than 10,000 melting [...]

Highly engineered abrasive products, available in belt or disc form, can reduce the grinding forces and power consumption necessary to obtain the desired surface finish. Coated abrasive products are used [...]

The trend toward fluid-power systems that provide faster and more reliable parts fixturing is an important development in metalworking applications. Many of today's workholding systems require a lot of manual [...]

Vogtland GmbH of Plauen, Germany designs, builds and remanufactures automotive transfers lines, but the firm has recently also moved 39 transfer lines and their special purpose machine tools from Austria to Brazil for General Motors Corp., Besides rebuilding and remanufacturing complete automotive transfer lines, one company also takes on the monumental task of moving them even--overseas. Typical projects at Vogtland GmbH of Plauen, Germany, usually involve [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee, a wholly owned subsidiary of aerospace and defense contractor Aerojet General, fabricates parts from tungsten heavy alloys and other refractory metals [...]

The Intertech group (www.intertechusa.com) organizes technical conferences on a wide range of industrial processes and products, including steelmaking and its principal material inputs. On coke and coking coal alone, Intertech [...]

ATI Allvac recommissioned its Richburg, SC, superalloy and specialty steel plant, following a project that expands operating capacity and increases value-added processing capabilities. According to Allvac, the improvements include a [...]

If you haven't been focusing seriously on spray nozzles recently, it's high time you did--because several of the most important steps in the metal producing process are all about nozzles: [...]

American Friction Welding, in Brookfield, Wis., will in stall a new friction-welding system to help complete a recently secured, six-year supply con tract for automotive thermocouple components. AFW ordered a [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite tough economic times, Dix Metals (www.dixmetals.com) has realized a surge in business. It came when the supplier of raw materials--primarily aluminum--invested in ultrahigh-pressure waterjet technology to speed [...]

Iceland-based Stimir (www.stimir.com) supplied an anode stub saw to Soer-Norge Aluminium (Soeral) in Norway. The machine uses band saw technology to cut stubs horizontally while the rod remains hanging in [...]

Padana Tubi SpA in Italy ordered a RD 355 tube-welding line from SMS Meer, including the strip-prep section, spiral strip accumulator, tube-welding machine with straight-edge forming section and change equipment, [...]

Siemens Industrial Solutions & Services received an order from Hyundai Steel in South Korea, to supply parts of the electrical and automation systems for its casting-rolling plant at Danjin. The [...]

* SMS Meer will modernize a 21-in. tube welding line for the No. 3 JSC Vyksa Steel Works in Russia. The line will be used for producing oilfield tubulars and [...]

* Hyco Metals & Supply Co. Inc. will install a new SMS Demag Ltd. slitting line at its Empire Steel & Processing service center in Chino, CA. The PRO-ECO line [...]

* CMC Steel South Carolina, Cayce, SC, will install Techint Good-fellow Technologies Inc.'s Good fellow EFSOP system for continuous, closed-loop process control of melting based on measuring off-gases. TGTI, Mississauga [...]

A 136-metric tons/hour automatic stacking and bundling station supplied by Danieli (www.danieli.com) has been operating at the SMI Texas bar and section mill in Seguin, TX, since mid May. The [...]