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Equipment and components used for specialized applications. Some examples include wire straightening, lubrication, and the creation of extrusions, pultrusions, castings, and molded shapes.
3D printers fabricate three-dimensional components from bulk material with a design provided by a digital file. It is a type of additive manufacturing (AM).
Aluminum framing systems are modular systems assembled from extruded aluminum profiles. They include accessories that are used to build machine frames, jigs, and many other types of industrial products.
Armouring machines apply a protective, metallic outer sheath to cables, flexible conduit or flexible pipe.
Automated tape laying (ATL) and automated fiber placement (AFP) equipment place composite tape on flat or shaped molds to fabricate multi-layered composite structures. The placement of tape by ATL/AFP machines is precisely controlled by computer to create layers with specific alternating carbon fiber orientations aligned with the expected loads for high mechanical strength. ATL machines lay relatively wide tape (typically 3 in to 12 in). AFP machines place a band comprised of several individually-driven narrow tapes (typically 1/8 in to 1/2 in width), enabling fabrication of more highly curved and complex part geometries compared to ATL. Composite tapes are typically comprised of fiber tows consisting of fiber reinforcement (e.g. carbon fiber) pre-impregnated (prepregged) with thermoset or thermoplastic resin.
Flatbed cutters use a large, flat work surface and an X-Y cutting head to cut materials such as paper, vinyl, cardboard, textiles, glass, and other materials.
Part Dryers are devices used to dry discrete parts or components.
Modular framing systems are essential industrial erector sets made of steel, aluminum, or composite materials.
Press brake tooling includes dies and punches used with a press brake to form, bend or flatten sheet metal.
Rapid prototyping equipment produces a three-dimensional (3D) paper, plastic, wax, ceramic or metal prototype or pattern.
Robots and robotic components and accessories.
Sheet and film dies, also referred to as slit dies, create large, thin expanses of plastic material from extruded polymers.
Stranders, bunchers and cablers are used to twist together wires, conductors and cables. Stranders are machines containing reels of materials to be twisted that rotate around a central axis and a take-up reel that is located outside the rotating member. Bunchers and cablers are rotating machines where the take-up is inside the rotating part of the machine, and the supply wire is located outside of the rotating member. The difference between a buncher and a cabler is the material processed. Bunchers are used with un-insulated wire and cablers are used with insulated cables.
Support pillars are mold components that are mounted between the back-up plate and the rear clamping plate of a mold. They increase the mold’s capacity to support the projected cavity area.
Machinery, tools, and equipment used in the tire manufacturing industry.
Tube clamp connectors are structuring components used to fasten tubing together in flexible or modular construction systems. These systems are essentially industrial-grade Erector® sets made of steel, aluminum, or composite materials.
Tube mills and pipe mills fabricate metal tubes and pipes. Tube and pipe mills typically consist of a series of machines to form, weld, and cut metal plate or sheet to finished tube or pipe form.
Welding tables and fixturing tables are used to temporarily hold work pieces in place during welding, inspection, testing, and other applications.