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Category: Extrusion

Packaging & Nalle Automation

By Frank Posted on March 11, 2012 Posted in Extrusion, Machine Assembly and Fabrication, Machine Builders and Integrators, Packaging, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with networking, packaging, vendors

This week I made my first sales trip for my new consulting company. I returned to Knoxville where I had my old company ACS for 10 years and paid a visit to several old customers and friends. If you have …

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Misumi

By Frank Posted on August 28, 2011 Posted in Extrusion, gauging, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with aluminum extrusion, gauging, Misumi, Tinkertoys, vendors

Despite being an Electrical and Controls engineer I often have to do mechanical design, albeit on a basic level. Whenever I need to fixture something, for instance on a vision application or other inspection, one of the first manufacturers I …

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Binder Processing

By Frank Posted on April 24, 2011 Posted in Assembly, Extrusion, Packaging Tagged with aluminum extrusion, servo

This is another machine built with NAS in about the 1998-1999 time frame. As you can tell, NAS was a huge user of aluminum extrusion; for about 5 years or so the were the biggest 80-20 customer in East Tennessee. …

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