Service Center News

OPP Adds Slitting Line

Ohio Pickling & Processing, Toledo, Ohio, is adding a new ultra-high-strength Braner/Loopco slitting line, the installation of which will be completed by the end of the first quarter 2022. The new line will be the company’s third slitting line. Ohio Pickling & Processing is a leading toll processor of hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated flat-rolled steel.
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National Machinery Exchange

National Machinery Exchange, Inc. has been the worldwide leader in secondhand coil processing, rolling mill, tube mills, stamping presses and metalworking equipment since 1934. NME purchases entire manufacturing facilities as well as individual lines worldwide. See a video of our 300,000 square feet warehouse in Mansfield, Ohio.

Op-Ed

Reflections on a Year Ruled by a Virus

As I sit down to write this, I can’t help but think back a year earlier to when we were wrapping up the April 2020 issue. It was expected to be like many previous April installments – a dash of automotive, a pinch of service center goings-on and some other items to satisfy our readers’ metal industry cravings.
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Featured Product

MPC2000 MC Offers Drilling, Tapping, Milling

Manufacturers have been demanding a faster, more accurate way of producing parts, and Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based Messer Cutting Systems has accepted the challenge, the company claims.
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Business Topics

Five Simple Steps to Being a Terrific Manager

To become a terrific manager, the objective of Mark Ernst’s presentation at the March FMA Virtual Conference, it helps to ask a few questions of yourself.
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Products

New Mazak Machine Controls Beam Better

The Optiplex Nexus 3015 Fiber S7 from Mazak, Elgin, Ill., is designed with Variable Beam Parameter Product technology that better controls the laser beam for superior cut performance, the company claims.
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Service Center Shipments Jump in March

Steel and aluminum shipments in March increased by double digits in both the U.S. and Canada, according to the monthly report from the Metals Service Center Institute, Rolling Meadows, Ill.
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