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The Tube and Pipe Journal - Plasma Cutting
- From The Fabricator
Safety tips for laser and plasma cutting
Operators must adhere to specific safety measures and use appropriate PPE to mitigate the inherent risks associated with laser and plasma cutting.
Machine cuts holes with few secondary finishing operations
- Feb 19, 2024
- Product Release
HGG’s SPC 1500-3000 PT/VC machine for cutting pipe and vessel heads is designed to completely automate layout, marking, cutting, beveling, and grinding of profiles from 3 to 118 in.
Improving fabrication versatility through automation
- By Mary Ellen Klukow
- Feb 8, 2024
- Article
When SL Chasse Steel needed a quicker route to completing miscellaneous steel jobs, it found a solution with a new automated plasma cutting machine.
Square, rectangular plug assemblies aid plasma cutting of nonround tube
- Sep 22, 2023
- Product Release
Bend-Tech has introduced square and rectangular plug assemblies for plasma cutting aluminum and stainless nonround tube and pipe.
Plasma CNC offers real-time torch height adjustment
- Aug 23, 2023
- Product Release
Laguna Tools Inc. has introduced the Smart-Cut Plasma CNC line.
Bend-Tech’s Coolant Support System handles long tubes in plasma cutting operations
- Apr 24, 2023
- Product Release
Bend-Tech has announced the development of its Coolant Support System, designed to help make the handling of long stainless steel and aluminum tube and pipe materials more efficient.
Combining a love for motorsport racing and metal fabrication
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Jul 29, 2022
- Article
When Rob Parsons suffered a paralyzing back injury, rather than call it a setback, the Salt Lake City metalworker turned it into an opportunity to pursue two fascinations: racing and metal fabrication. That, in turn, led him to starting up two different business: Bending Solutions and CageKits.
- From The Fabricator
Hypertherm rebrands as Hypertherm Associates
- Jun 22, 2022
- News Release
Hanover, N.H.-based Hypertherm is changing its corporate name to Hypertherm Associates to represent its evolution from a manufacturer of plasma cutting products to a multitechnology provider of industrial cutting systems.
- From The Fabricator
How pandemic lessons can help manufacturers improve indoor air quality
- By Jon Ladwig
- Sep 9, 2021
- Article
The same approach metal fabricators used to reduce the risk of transmitting the coronavirus on the shop floor can be applied to develop a plan to improve indoor air quality in manufacturing facilities.
- From The Fabricator
HGG’s RPC 1200 Mk3 beam coping machine also profiles pipe
- Aug 10, 2021
- Product Release
HGG offers the RPC 1200 Mk3, which it says is the first beam coping machine with the capability to profile structural beams, angle bars, channels, square tubes, plates, T-bars, and bulbs.
- From The Fabricator
United Precision Services, MicroStep announce strategic partnership
- Jul 23, 2021
- News Release
United Precision Services Inc., a provider of turnkey medium to large CNC machine tool systems, has announced a strategic partnership agreement with MicroStep.
Renowned auto parts manufacturer races ahead with plasma cutting system
- By Ann Thompson
- Jan 14, 2021
- Article
When Borla Performance Industries, a leading manufacturer of aftermarket automotive products, switched from machining to plasma cutting, the company’s productivity improved in several ways—programming, cutting, and downstream operations.
HGG Profiling Equipment continues growth in North America
- Oct 7, 2020
- News Release
Since opening its new 6,500-sq.-ft. facility in Houston in spring 2020, HGG Profiling Equipment has announced the addition of six staff members. The company has expanded its North American sales coverage by hiring Todd Wellens as area manager for eastern and midwestern U.S. and Canada; increased...
- From The Fabricator
Arena project leads to pipe cutting automation at Fought & Co.
- By Sue Roberts
- Nov 29, 2019
- Article
Fought & Co. out of Tigard, Ore., uses automated plasma cutting technology to process large pipe.
Hobby hot-rod enthusiasts discover plasma cutting
- By Eric Lundin
- Aug 22, 2019
- Article
Inspired by a hot rod in a 1979 movie, Beth Sachse and her father, Jon Wagner, have spent the ensuing decades collecting parts so they could build one of their own – a Willys coupe. Along the way, they discovered the power of plasma cutting.
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