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Product Specification Series: What is the IP code?
From: All-Spec IndustriesDescription: "IP" stands for "ingress protection" and it deals with both solid and liquid protection. This rating system was created by the International Electrotechnical Commission, which creates standards for ...
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Safe-Cut Provides Safe, Efficient Waterjet Cutting Services to Refinery Industry
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Texas cold-cutting service specializes in removing and repairing petroleum storage tanks ...
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Franklin Miller Solves Major Processing Problem
Description: PROBLEM: Maxton Meat Processors, Inc. in Maxton, NC, was experiencing a major pumping problem of their difficult to transport meat products. ...
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Growing with Plasma
From: Hypertherm, Inc.Description: Behlen Industries's investment in high tech plasma system leads to a 40% cost savings. ...
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Explaining Laser Marking Technology
From: RMI Laser, LLCDescription: First, let's quickly address the basics of a laser. As you may know, laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. On a very basic level, a laser amplifies light by ...
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Ammonia Stripping Explained
Description: In the stripper, the pH and temperature are adjusted before the water enters the stripper. As the water is distributed over the internal packing media, it is broken up into small droplets which create ...
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How does SCR work
Description: How does SCR work? Catalysts perform by lowering the temperature required to allow a chemical reaction to occur. In this case, a reduced nitrogen compound (ammonia or urea) is introduced into the air. ...
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NOx Removal Technology
Description: There are several techniques for removal of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) depending on the composition/temperature/removal efficiencies. ...
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Case Study: A Madrid, Spain-based precision engineering business specializing in complex parts for aerospace and defense applications has invested in a Renishaw REVO® five-axis measuring head and probe system.
From: RenishawDescription: The change has resulted in a reduction in inspection time by as much as a factor of 5, ensuring quality control and inspection keep up with its high-productivity CNC machine tools. ...
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Case Study: Measurement system retrofit reduces inspection times and gains new business for world-class manufacturer
From: RenishawDescription: Mike Sullivan founded Future Advanced Manufacture Ltd (Future AM) thirty years ago and realised immediately that competing on price was not the way forward: "There's always a 'Fred in the shed' down ...
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Case Study: Precision manufacturer relies on Renishaw for the production of critical components
From: RenishawDescription: Since adopting the machine tool probes, Associated Tools have benefited from an elimination of component rejections, and a 66% reduction in tooling set up times. ...
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Curing epoxy on aluminum copier roller assembly [IH]
From: AmbrellDescription: A four turn helical pancake coil is used to heat the end of the copier roller assembly. The assembly is heated 90 seconds to cure the adhesive. ...
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Curing epoxy on aluminum copier roller assembly [MEC]
From: AmbrellDescription: A four turn helical pancake coil is used to heat the end of the copier roller assembly. The assembly is heated 90 seconds to cure the adhesive. ...
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Heat a block of Haynes nickel alloy to test the crack growth rate [IH]
From: AmbrellDescription: Heat a block of Haynes nickel alloy from 600 ºF (316 ºC) to 1600 ºF (871 ºC) in order to collect data on the crack growth rate for an aerospace application. ...
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Comparing Oil/Water Separator Coalescers: The Multi-Pack™ Vs. The Rest of the Pack
Description: the pages that follow describe some of the various coalescer designs on the market today. While each is manufactured to help oil droplets collide and coalesce to the top of a vessel, they all have an ...
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A Guide to Freeze Drying for the Laboratory
From: Labconco CorporationDescription: Freeze drying has been used in a number of applications for many years, most commonly in the food and pharmaceutical industries. There are, however, many other uses for the process including ...
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Au / Pd Coatings in the nm Range on Printed Circuit Boards
From: Fischer Technology, Inc.Description: As the electronics industry makes use of ever thinner coatings, manufacturers increase their demands on measuring technologies to provide reliable parameters for product monitoring. One example is the ...
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Brazing a steel and brass immersion heating element [IH]
From: AmbrellDescription: Induction results in faster heating than a torch with faster, multi-part heating to increase output... ...
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Brazing a steel and brass immersion heating element [MEC]
From: AmbrellDescription: Induction results in faster heating than a torch with faster, multi-part heating to increase output... ...
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Controlling Airfl ow in Class II Biosafety Cabinets
From: Labconco CorporationDescription: In order to maintain proper containment, NSF stipulates that recirculating and exhausted airfl ow volumes, and therefore velocities, must be maintained within a tolerance of +/- 5 feet per minute ...
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Factors to Consider When Selecting a Stereo Microscope
From: Leica Microsystems, Inc.Description: Stereo microscopes are often nicknamed the workhorse of the lab or the production department. Users spend many hours behind the ocular inspecting, observing, documenting or dissecting samples. Which ...
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How to choose the Right Freeze Dry system
From: Labconco CorporationDescription: Products Balance, Bulk Powder & Equipment Enclosures Biosafety Cabinets, Clean Benches & other HEPA-Filtered Enclosures Blood Drawing Chairs Centrifugal Vacuum Concentrators & Cold Traps Density ...
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How to Select the Right Laboratory Hood System
From: Labconco CorporationDescription: A laboratory fume hood is a ventilated enclosure where harmful or toxic fumes or vapors can be handled safely. The purpose of the hood is to capture, contain and remove contaminants, preventing their ...
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Improving the Grease Dispensing Process.
From: Techcon Systems, Inc.Description: Automotive parts manufacturers as well as other manufacturers have been challenged with dispensing liquids and pastes while assembling components in their facilities throughout the world. Part of the ...
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Inserting brass rods into a plastic thermostat housing [IH]
From: AmbrellDescription: This application has three different coils for varying hole patterns. A three turn oblong coil is used to heat 2 brass inserts in close proximity... ...
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Inserting brass rods into a plastic thermostat housing [MEC]
From: AmbrellDescription: This application has three different coils for varying hole patterns. A three turn oblong coil is used to heat 2 brass inserts in close proximity... ...
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Laser and Plasma Applications: Selecting a Dust Collection System
Description: Thermal cutting applications, such as plasma and laser cutting, generate considerable levels of fume and particulate that may present a health risk to operators and be detrimental to cutting ...
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Maintaining your Soldering Iron: Tip Cleaning
From: All-Spec IndustriesDescription: To ensure your tips are free of any oxides, you should clean them regularly. By cleaning your tips, you remove any dirt or dust that has accumulated as well as built up oxides. ...
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Achieving the best machined finish for critical PPSU parts
Description: Many designers and machinists have questions about fabricating critical tolerance parts for cutting edge industries like medical and life science equipment manufacturers. ...
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How RPM Impacts Torque Output
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: Choosing a socket for a power tool might seem like a simple task. Open any tool catalog or tool chest, find the correct drive size, select the hex size you need - and off you go. But it's not that ...
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Food and Beverage Application Brief
Description: A major beverage plant was looking to reduce the impact of it's operations on the environment, while meeting the water treatment challenges at it's facility. ...
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Radiant Floor Warming
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: Generally, a residence or business will use a forced air system to heat rooms within the structure. This system operates by warming the air in a room, which then transfers heat to the objects it ...
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Radiant Roof Snow Melt and Deicing
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: Damage caused to buildings, people and property by snow and ice build-up and removal, ice dams, and icicles amounts to millions of dollars each year. The effectiveness of the methods historically used ...
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Roof Deicing Under Membrane Roof Covering Materials
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: Heatizon Systems makes roof snow melt and deicing products that utilize one of two different heating elements, Tuff Cable or ZMesh. Tuff Cable, a copper cable surrounded by an insulator which is ...
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Automated Escalator Lubrication
From: Oil-Rite Corp.Description: A customer came to Oil-Rite Corporation looking for a precise and reliable method of applying lubricant. ...
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Before you design an inertial separator
From: Fisher-KlostermanDescription: Measuring your dust's aerodynamic particle size ...
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Cryopreservation and Reanimation of Living Cells
Description: For decades, cryopreservation has been used for plant cells, unfertilized (oocytes)/fertilized (zygotes) human and animal eggs, and male sperm cells. The cryopreservation process typically involves ...
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Cyclone Separators: A Family Affair
From: Fisher-KlostermanDescription: a basic rule in cyclone design and specification ...
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Fibrous Slurry Heating
From: ProSonix CorporationDescription: The past five years have witnessed an explosion in the laboratory effort put into finding an economical way to develop pretreatment processes for biomass feedstocks in order to prepare them for ...
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Food Processing - Meat & Poultry
From: ProSonix CorporationDescription: In the Food industry, processing of meats & poultry requires heat and significant amounts of hot water for many of the process & cleaning applications throughout the plant. ...
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Food Processing - Vegetable & Potato Blanching
From: ProSonix CorporationDescription: In the Food industry, blanching of vegetables & potatoes is a common practice. Enzymes in vegetables are inactivated by the blanching process. Blanching is the exposure of the vegetables to boiling ...
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How to Optimize Cyclone Performance
From: Fisher-KlostermanDescription: When properly maintained, a well-designed cyclone will deliver the consistent performance you want ...
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How to select and maintain a cyclone for maximum efficiency
From: Fisher-KlostermanDescription: How a high-efficiency cylclone works and how to select and maintain the cyclone for maximum efficiency ...
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Maintaining your Soldering Iron: Tip Tinning
From: All-Spec IndustriesDescription: While proper soldering techniques are important to form working joints, it is also necessary to maintain your iron to keep it at its peak performance. ...
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New separation approach saves catalyst and energy
From: Fisher-KlostermanDescription: Change boosts small-particle collection efficiency ...
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Power & Refinery - Boiler feedwater Heating
From: ProSonix CorporationDescription: Power generating plants utilize steam boilers to produce electricity energy for their operation. These boilers often have feedwater heaters which are an integral part of the plant's thermodynamic ...
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Pulp & Paper - Whitewater Heating
From: ProSonix CorporationDescription: White water is a fine particle slurry used throughout the papermaking process. Its name derives from fine fiber particles in the water that give it a milky white appearance. White water drains from ...
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Wastewater - Sludge Heating for Anaerobic Digestion
From: ProSonix CorporationDescription: Direct steam injection Heating (DSI) is an emerging technology for municipal biosolids heating, especially in processes that use anaerobic digestion. DSI has a long track record in challenging slurry ...
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AK Services - Boston, MA
From: Jet EdgeDescription: When a large petroleum distributor had a tank full of gasoline develop a leak in the floor, they contacted AK Services because they could safely cut holes in the floor to allow for the removal of ...
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AK Services Cuts 55-Inch Access in Nuclear Waste Storage Tank
From: Jet EdgeDescription: They engineered a special abrasivejet cutting system that featured four redundant Jet Edge High Flow Abrasivejets in case one head should have failed. They accomplished the cut with one cutting head. ...
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AQUEOUS CRITICAL CLEANING: A WHITE PAPER - APPLICATIONS IN MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: By getting support from the cleaner manufacturer, time and money can be saved in establishing either cleaning validation or cleaning verification processes. This is critical as cleaning validation or ...
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AQUEOUS CRITICAL CLEANING: A WHITE PAPER - APPLICATIONS IN PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: The benefits of employing aqueous cleaning in pharmaceutical manufacturing are numerous. Virtually any pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment from tablet press to a stainless steel mixing tank can ...
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AQUEOUS CRITICAL CLEANING: A WHITE PAPER - CLEANING VALIDATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: By getting support from the cleaner manufacturer, time and money can be saved in establishing either cleaning validation or cleaning verification processes. This is critical as cleaning validation or ...
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AQUEOUS CRITICAL CLEANING: A WHITE PAPER - CLEANING VALIDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: Cleaning validation is a necessary and time consuming part of manufacturing pharmaceuticals. The validation process can be expedited and cost of validation can be lowered if the cleaner supplier can ...
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Centura Oil Stimulates Methane Wells with Waterjet
From: Jet EdgeDescription: The CenJet 90® waterjet cutting head is deployed to a predetermined depth where it perforates the payzone and increases a well's area of influence, increasing productivity and extending the ...
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E.J. Bartells Increases Productivity with Waterjet!
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Jet Edge, Inc. is pleased to announce that E.J. Bartells has installed a Jet Edge waterjet cutting machine at its insulation, refractories and HVAC fabrication facility in Spokane, Wash. Founded in ...
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Edmonton Water Jet Shop Experiences 9 Straight Years of Growth
From: Jet EdgeDescription: G.O. H2O's most recognizable project can be seen at the Edmonton International Airport. Over the course of six months, the company cut 6,500 square feet of interlocking mosaic tiles for 27 large swirl ...
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Heat Pump System Halves Heating Costs
Description: Case Study: How a lake resort saved substantially on heating and cooling costs ...
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Illinois Fab Shop Grows Through Innovation, Craftsmanship
From: Jet EdgeDescription: When you have the right tools, the right skills and a reputation for innovation, service and quality, customers will beat a path to your door. And they have been doing just that for decades at PIW ...
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Illinois Family Achieves American Dream with Jet Edge Waterjet
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Lee was weighing career options when his longtime tooling salesman suggested that he look into precision waterjet technology. At that time, waterjet manufacturers were just beginning to introduce ...
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Key Procedures and Aqueous Cleaning Agents for Metal and Electronic Component Cleaning
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: The terms precision or critical cleaning apply whenever residue can cause a failure in the performance or function of the surface being cleaned. In general industry this includes electronic component ...
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Living Water Studios Uses Water Jet to Make Christian Artwork
From: Jet EdgeDescription: In a unique fusion of faith, artistry and manufacturing technology, Living Water Studios of Kent, Wash., has found an enduring new purpose for its parent company's industrial water jet cutting ...
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M&M Cut-O-Matic Grows Industrial Cutting Service with Waterjet
From: Jet EdgeDescription: M & M Cut-O-Matic's Jet Edge High Rail Gantry waterjet. The company uses a closed-loop filtration and water recycling system which reduces water consumption and eliminates the need to dump water down ...
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Metal Service Center Jacquet Features Large Format Jet Edge Waterjets
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Jacquet specializes in supplying and processing stainless steel and nickel alloys for OEMS, fabricators and machine shops that support primarily the oil and gas, power generation, pollution control ...
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Michael Waltrip Racing Uses Jet Edge Waterjet to Manufacture Racecar Parts
From: Jet EdgeDescription: It used to take MWR 50-55 minutes to waterjet its spindles. With the X-Stream, it takes 30-44 minutes. Before they got their waterjet, it took 3 or 4 hours with a bandsaw. The X-Stream offset an ...
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Minnesota Water Jet Shop Builds Thriving 'Green' Business with Jet Edge Waterjets
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Precision Waterjet Concepts mirror cuts large parts on its Mid Rail Gantry waterjet system. This enables them to cut large parts twice as fast. Courtesy Precision Waterjet Concepts Precision Waterjet ...
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Nanotechnology Critical Cleaning for Quality & Safety
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: Nanotechnology is currently employed across a wide range of industrial, research, and academic applications. Stringent cleaning protocols are essential to the successful fabrication of nanotechnology ...
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The Significance of Critical Cleaning for Solar Module Fabrication
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: With increased governmental commitments to support renewable energy initiatives, winners and losers in solar module fabrication will be determined more quickly and by a variety of factors. One factor ...
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Twelve Strike Bowling Services Chooses American-Made Jet Edge Waterjet
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Twelve Strike offers a full range of bowling scoring products, including scoring pedestals and overhead display monitors, as well as scoring computers, and point-of-sale, back-office and central ...
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Water Jet Contractor Helps Remove Temporary Pier Piles at Audubon Bridge Construction Site Following Record Floods
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Midwest Mobile Waterjet designed and built a waterjet cutting tool that was used to cut out piles from a temporary work pier at the John James Audubon Bridge construction site in Louisiana. The ...
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Water Jet Shop Bucks Recession!
From: Jet EdgeDescription: The "Great Recession" has been no match for Pegasus Northwest of Kent, Wash. The Boeing-certified industrial water jet cutting shop has increased sales by 57% since 2007, keeping its five Jet Edge ...
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Waterjets Help Stop Gulf Oil Leak
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Water jet technology companies Jet Edge, Inc. and Chukar Waterjet, Inc. recently played a key role in helping BP stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The companies provided ultra-high pressure ...
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Creative Edge Master Shop, Inc. - Fairfield, Iowa
From: Jet EdgeDescription: As the largest independent waterjet fabrication and design company in the United States, Creative Edge Master Shop puts its waterjet systems to the test. The Fairfield, Iowa, Â company runs its nine ...
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David Allen Company Broadens Artistic Vision with Water Jet
From: Jet EdgeDescription: This terrazzo graphic was cut from a single sheet of aluminum on the water jet. David Allen Company used to spend weeks cutting, bending and soldering strips of zinc to create its terrazzo graphics. ...
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Kent, Washington Waterjet Shop Specializes in Tight Tolerance Waterjet Cutting
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Cutting 6.5" titanium billets for Boeing. The material is forged into its current configuration, then waterjet cut (leaving .250" excess) and machined to its finished shape. Productivity is doubled by ...
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Mattracks Cuts Machining Time with Jet Edge Waterjet Machine
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Mattracks, Inc., 100,000 headquarters in Karlstad, Minn. In 2007, Mattracks bought a second 100,000 square foot facility in Karlstad and built a 500,000 facility in China. Researchers are using the ...
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Metfab Engineering, Inc. - Attleboro Falls, Massachusetts
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Metfab operates a 6-foot by 10-foot Jet Edge High Rail Gantry System. The system is powered by a 50-horsepower Jet Edge 55-50B intensifier pump rated for 60,000 psi. Photo courtesy Metfab, Inc. ...
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New England Die Cutting, Inc. - Haverhill, Massachusetts
From: Jet EdgeDescription: During economic downturns, many businesses rein in their spending and hope merely to stay afloat until the storm passes. Others seize the opportunity to lunge ahead of their retreating competition by ...
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Palmer Marble & Tile Uses Jet Edge Waterjet for High-End Residential, Commerical Projects
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Palmer Marble & Tile operates a 6-foot by 12-foot Jet Edge High Rail Gantry waterjet ystem. They use a jib boom to load the table. Photo courtesy Palmer Marble & Tile. . At any given time, the ...
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Plasti-Fab Cuts Massive 8,000-Pound Fiberglass Parts with Jet Edge Water Jet
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Plasti-Fab's massive 14X28-foot waterjet system is the largest in the Northwest. The system features a floor-mounted rack and pinion drive-rail motion system manufactured by Alltra Corporation of ...
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Profile Waterjet Cutting, Inc. - St. Catharines, Ontario
From: Jet EdgeDescription: In 2001, Dave Willcock decided to sell his successful St. Catharines, Ontario-based machine shop and retire at the age of 39. But he quickly grew bored of retirement and decided to enter the ...
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QteC Automation and Waterjet Technology Leading Supplier of Waterjet Technology in Europe
From: Jet EdgeDescription: With 25 years of industry experience, Denmark-based QteC Automation and Waterjet Technology is one of Europe's leading providers of custom waterjet solutions. Over the years, QteC has developed custom ...
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RAGWORM® Water Jet Cutting Machine Removes Storage Tank Floors, Roofs
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Jet Set Hydro Technics B.V.'s RAGWORM® is used to remove worn floors and ceilings from storage tanks using ultra-high pressure waterjet. Photo courtesy Jet Set Hydro Technics B.V. Jet Set met ...
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Reuel Inc. Installs Jet Edge Waterjet System
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Reuel has grown steadily since its establishment in 1987. The company now occupies a 110,000 square foot manufacturing facility and employees 50 people. Courtesy Reuel Inc. A substation of its way to ...
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S&T Precision Plate Cutting, Inc. - Hanson, Massachusetts
From: Jet EdgeDescription: In 2001, Scott and Joyce Augustson decided to open their own machine shop so they could have more control over their future and make a better life for themselves. The couple bought out a ...
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SKL Fabricators, Inc. - Malden, Massachusetts
From: Jet EdgeDescription: When SKL Fabricators, Inc., needed to upgrade their waterjet system in 2004, they decided to buy a cutting-edge system manufactured by Jet Edge, Inc., of St. Michael, Minn. The Malden, Mass., ...
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Southern California Waterjet Shop Thrives with Jet Edge Waterjet Systems
From: Jet EdgeDescription: When Jose Luis Arce's longtime employer decided to retire and close his waterjet shop in 2007, Arce decided to put his 10 years of waterjet cutting, programming and mechanical engineering experience ...
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SP & C - The Surface Preparation and Coatings People Company - Long Beach, Washington
From: Jet EdgeDescription: SP&C used Jet Edge Gyrajets to clean the fish holds on three Alaskan crab boats prior to resurfacing. The Gyrojet blasts away old coatings and corrosion with ultra-high pressure (UHP) water that is ...
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Stainless Steel Technology - Lively, Ontario
From: Jet EdgeDescription: As a custom fabricator serving primarily the mining and water treatment industries, Stainless Steel Technology routinely transforms massive sheets of stainless steel and aluminum into Goliath-sized ...
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Trim Tool & Machine, Inc. - Cleveland, Ohio
From: Jet EdgeDescription: If you´ve driven a car, truck or SUV lately, chances are the trim die used to make your steering wheel was manufactured by Trim Tool & Machine, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio. In business since 1999, Trim ...
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Water Quality Information
From: Jet EdgeDescription: As part of pre installation planning, a water quality analysis should be performed by a commercial company that specializes in water conditioning equipment. Water quality available for the ...
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Waterjet 101
From: Jet EdgeDescription: Waterjets cut with a supersonic stream of water that is so powerful it can cut through materials in one pass without shredding or crushing them. The Jet Edge water jet is created by pressurizing water ...
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Getting Rid of Charges Part 4: Grounding the Charge
From: All-Spec IndustriesDescription: While it is important to know how to keep yourself and your workstation grounded, it can be interesting to understand where your charge goes. ...
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Differential Pressure: What it is and why you should care
Description: What dust collector owner and/or operator doesn't want to see lower total emissions, longer filter life or compressed air savings? Yet, many lack a basic understanding of differential pressure, which ...
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Mist Collection: Fundamentals and Applications
Description: Metalworking companies use mist collectors on their machine tools to help provide clean air to reduce the adverse effects of exposure to metalworking fluids, comply with indoor air quality standards, ...
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Processing Fish with Centrifuges
From: GEA Westfalia SeparatorDescription: Separators and decanters have been used for the recovery of fish meal and fish oil for over 50 years. Over the years, the processes used have been adapted to the demands on the product and raw ...
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Regulating Compressed Air Pressure - Essential to Longer Filter Life
Description: Correct compressed air pressure is critical for effective filter cleaning and filter longevity. If compressed air pressure is too low, filters will not clean properly, and the result will be reduced ...
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Annealing lip on aluminum cryogenic dewar [IH]
From: AmbrellDescription: Annealing a 1" lip on aluminum cryogenic dewar that has been work hardened during the process of spin forming. ...
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Annealing lip on aluminum cryogenic dewar [MEC]
From: AmbrellDescription: Annealing a 1" lip on aluminum cryogenic dewar that has been work hardened during the process of spin forming. ...
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Bonding plastic sleeve to stainless steel tube [IH]
From: AmbrellDescription: Induction heating is used to bond the end of a stainless steel handle with a plastic sleeve coated with adhesive ... ...
