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NEW, COMPLETE PRODUCT CATALOG WITH SOLUTION GUIDE, IN FULL COLOR



TigerStop LLC has published a new complete product catalog with solution guide in full color. This new guide features all of their products in one location combining both images and complete solutions for manufacturing applications.

NEW LIGHTWEIGHT, PORTABLE WELDER DELIVERS QUALITY TIG WELDING



ESAB Welding & Cutting Products introduces the CaddyTig™ 2200i power source for TIG welding. The latest in the CaddyTig series of lightweight portable welders, CaddyTig 2200i is designed to deliver quality TIG welding in all types of material.

SHEARING OF COIL LINE MADE EASIER WITH POWERFUL SLITTING SHEAR



Trumpf will exhibit their TruTool C 250 slitting shear with chip clipper and Li-Ion battery, designed to facilitate shearing of coil line. As a result of a 500-watt motor and blade geometry design, the slitting shear is very fast and powerful and has a working speed of 13 feet per minute.

HIGH PERFORMANCE TUBE NOTCHING WITH MODULAR GRINDING SYSTEM



Fein Power Tools, Inc, a will showcase its industrial duty, belt grinding machinery. The GRIT grinding system is engineered as multi-process, unique to the industry, modular system.

ALL-NEW MULTI-TASKING TURNING CENTERS FOR COMPLEX PARTS



Hardinge will showcase the all-new GS 200 MSY and GS 250 MSY Performance multitasking turning centers, as well as Hardinge workholding products and Bridgeport machining centers.

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TAKE A LOAD OFF

Setup Strategies: Integrated front-load pallet changers enable Cox Machine to standardize jobs, processes, and staging areas - and rethink how they grow their business.

Starting in 1954, Ernest "Bud" Cox began to take Cox Machine, Inc. (Wichita, KS) through several iterations and growth spurts. A 16 ft x 20 ft "shop" containing four machines - a mill, a lathe, a shaper and a drill press (the latter a Christmas gift from Bud's wife, Ruth Ann) - was built from scrap wood.

 


Cox Machine does direct work for Boeing and for Italy and Turkey, which also probably ends up on a 737 or 767. They also do jobs for other aircraft OEMs and subcontractors. (Photos courtesy of the Boeing Corp.)

Once Bud had outgrown this first shop in 1956, he moved the operation into a building in northwestern Wichita that a guy had won in a poker game. There was no indoor plumbing, and it's a bitter wind that howls down through the Dakotas from Canada and across the naked winter plains of Kansas.

 

By 2001, with Steve Cox now in charge, the company built their current plant, 1/4 mile east of the original Cox Machine site. Their acquisition of 28 mills, 12 lathes, a large number of miscellaneous hones, gundrills, EDMs, grinders, and an enormous amount of fabrication equipment via the purchase of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Harper, KS), had very nearly outpaced floor space.

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Web Exclusives

HIDDEN TRAGEDY?

False Sense of Security? A new report from Congress supposedly discovers a startling truth about workers' compensation and declines in claim frequency.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Line of Decline: Machining activity and financial strength fall off moderately in the machine tool business.

PULL UP THE SHEET

True View: New innovations in scanner and probe technologies are advancing and expanding the speed, accuracy and capabilities of sheet metal inspection.

FORMIDABLE FIREPOWER

Sink or Swim: This advanced tube bender provides versatile on-demand production for submarine building, with fast single-stage fabrication of complex part shapes that suit the dynamic nature of this production environment.


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