Kloeckner Metals Corp. recently opened its facility in Greenville, S.C., following the completion of an $11.3 million expansion. The upgraded facility includes a 50,000-square-foot bay with 43-ton cranes, as well as a new automated slitting line capable of processing advanced high-strength steels and aluminum.
Read More SSAB Americas, a division of Swedish steelmaker SSAB, will relocate the division’s head office from Lisle, Ill., to Mobile, Ala. Since 2001, the company has operated a steel mill in nearby Axis, Ala., which employs nearly 600 SSAB employees.
Read More EVRAZ North America has commissioned a spiral pipe plant in Regina, Saskatchewan, in Western Canada. The facility produces spiral pipes measuring 12 to 24.3 meters in length with diameters of 608 to 1,625 millimeters, at thicknesses of 6 to 25.5 millimeters.
Read More Shipments of U.S. and Canadian steel and aluminum products were mostly flat in September, with only U.S. aluminum shipments increasing slightly during the month, according to the latest Metals Activity Report from Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Metals Service Center Institute.
Read More World crude steel production totaled 141.4 million tons in September, a year-over-year increase of 5.6 percent, reports the World Steel Association, Brussels.
Read More Cincinnati Incorporated will demonstrate its ever-increasing line of metal fabrication equipment at FABTECH.
Read More AIDA-America Corp., Dayton, Ohio, will display two servo presses at FABTECH. The AIDA DSF-C1-1500, a 150-ton, gap frame servo press, will blank HSLA material and demonstrate AIDA’s Silent Blanking motion profile which can only be achieved using a servo press.
Read More LVD Strippit, Akron, N.Y., will spotlight its Industry 4.0-ready products designed to make the Smart Factory possible.
Read More Koike Aronson, Arcade, N.Y., will display its Universal Controller at FABTECH. The controller offers precise automated positioning to users.
Read More Ross Technology, Leola, Pa., will demonstrate its Dexco Tool & Die racks to get tooling, dies and other manufacturing equipment off the floor and out of harm’s way. Dexco rack arms, column bases and shelf beams are manufactured from structural steel I-beams with a 50 KSI minimum yield, providing greater strength and durability compared to roll-formed steel, the company claims.
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