Category: Machine Tools

Transforming Metal with Heat Almost as long as there has been metalworking, artisans have used heat to assist in their work. Likely around 6000 BCE, the process of smelting was developed in the Near East when early metalworkers discovered that certain rocks containing copper ores could be heated in a fire to extract the metal, […]

Maybe the Yellow Pages? You are the owner or manager of a metal fabrication shop, and you want to grow and advertise your business. “If only more people knew what we offered,” you say to your staff. An old-timer in the shop might speak up and suggest, “Maybe try the Yellow Pages.” You dismiss that […]

Jack and Jill went to the shop, To bend themselves some metal. Jack’s ram crashed down and ruined his crown, And Jill’s plate roll deflected soon after. Right Idea, Wrong Machine The boss went to see his new assistant in the machinery sales office. “I was reading your description of our new press brake in […]