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Coil Processing

Need for Speed: Service center replaces cut-to-length/leveling line in order to tackle ultra-high strength, heavy-gauge steels

Written by: Corinna Petry
Published: 21 April 2025
Need for Speed: Service center replaces cut-to-length/leveling line in order to tackle ultra-high strength, heavy-gauge steels

Above: McNeilus Steel serves a variety of customers that require heavygauge, high-strength materials

Heating Up: Maker of HVAC parts and components replaces slitter, brings work in house and realizes double-digit productivity gain

Written by: Corinna Petry
Published: 20 March 2025
Heating Up: Maker of HVAC parts and components replaces slitter, brings work in house and realizes double-digit productivity gain

Above: Lukjan Metal Products makes round, oval, square and rectangular pipes, elbows and angles, triangles, boxes, saddles, sleeves, pans and boots.

Overcoming Hurdles: Automation, precisely built equipment helps processors battle obsolescence and arm for the future

Written by: Modern Metals' staff
Published: 19 February 2025
Overcoming Hurdles: Automation, precisely built equipment helps processors battle obsolescence and arm for the future

Above: Burghardt + Schmidt continually develops coil slitting technologies to meet future demands.

Reinvestment: Temper mill combined with cut-to-length line and packaging station delivers completely flat steel with short lead times

Written by: Corinna Petry
Published: 19 December 2024
Reinvestment: Temper mill combined with cut-to-length line and packaging station delivers completely flat steel with short lead times
Above: Norfolk Iron and Metal has installed a temper mill/cut-to-length line at its Tulsa, Oklahoma, service center.

Meeting the Moment: Automation plus good design help two machinery builders integrate processes that can benefit multiple tiers of the metals supply chain

Written by: Corinna Petry
Published: 14 November 2024
Meeting the Moment: Automation plus good design help two machinery builders integrate processes that can benefit multiple tiers of the metals supply chain

Above: A robot sorts and stacks sheet parts that were laser cut

Labor Savings: Among the numerous advantages gained through automation, working smarter, not harder, provides unforeseen benefits to employers

Written by: Corinna Petry
Published: 28 August 2024
Labor Savings: Among the numerous advantages gained through automation, working smarter, not harder, provides unforeseen benefits to employers

Above: Traditional slitting requires an operator’s manual intervention, which can lead to fatigue and errors.

Big Time: Texas service center dials up its ability to process laser-flat material from coil

Written by: Corinna Petry
Published: 29 May 2024

 

Industry Developments: Processors, equipment makers invest in the future

Written by: Modern Metals' staff
Published: 26 April 2024
Industry Developments: Processors, equipment makers invest in the future

Steel Warehouse Co. will invest $30 million to build a service center in Hickory, North Carolina.
Shown, its Osceola, Arkansas, service center.

Built for it: Blanking equipment is customized for precise applications

Written by: web
Published: 22 March 2024

 

Set Up & Roll: Holding high tolerances on heavy-gauge material achieved with double eccentric slitting heads while automation promotes safety and greater productivity

Written by: Corinna Petry
Published: 15 February 2024

 

Leveling as a Service: Equipment manufacturer partners with fabricators to ensure flat metal parts

Written by: Lauren Duensing
Published: 08 January 2024

 

Capacity Driven

Written by: Lauren Duensing
Published: 25 September 2023

Lines can be engineered to mix and match, withstand high-level production, and take up as little space as possible

Full Strength

Written by: Lauren Duensing
Published: 31 July 2023

Intelligent line not only handles automotive steels but also tracks coils, allowing processor to keep tabs on materials

Think Big

Written by: Lauren Duensing
Published: 22 May 2023

Supersized heavy-gauge cut-to-length line features technological advancements—from safety features to unique recoiler

Mind Your Mults

Written by: Alan Richter
Published: 24 April 2023

Gauge to automatically measure the widths of multiple strips of coil provides multiple benefits

Adapt & Thrive

Written by: Lauren Duensing
Published: 20 March 2023

Sophisticated new equipment uses automated technology to eliminate human error and increase efficiencies

Skip the Pit

Written by: Super User
Published: 30 January 2023
Skip the Pit

January 2023- A compact flying shear line reduces footprint and infrastructure costs.

A String of Firsts

Written by: Super User
Published: 21 November 2022
A String of Firsts

November 2022- Long-term relationship between machine manufacturer and processor helps push both companies out of their comfort zone.

Capacity Cushion

Written by: Super User
Published: 18 October 2022
Capacity Cushion

Metal framing manufacturer installs slitter to boost output, quality and service, and shrink lead times

Shopping cart

Written by: Super User
Published: 18 May 2022
Shopping cart

Being able to quickly slit both high volumes and one-off coils brings value to consumers of coated sheet

Conquering challenges

Written by: Super User
Published: 19 April 2022
Conquering challenges

Service center celebrates 70th anniversary and invests in larger and faster high-strength processing capabilities

Resource revival

Written by: Super User
Published: 17 March 2022
Resource revival

Original drawings, engineering know-how add a layer of service for metal processors seeking to upgrade on a budget

Proven skills

Written by: Super User
Published: 15 November 2021
Proven skills

Processor partners with aluminum mill and equipment builder to settle into new territory

Gentle treatment

Written by: Super User
Published: 18 October 2021
Gentle treatment

CTL line enables flat and dimensional sheets to be fabricated in small batches with minimum set-up time

Constant innovation

Written by: Super User
Published: 22 September 2021
Constant innovation

Accuracy, dependability are built into every custom component

Feed the need

Written by: Super User
Published: 03 August 2021
Feed the need

Steelmaker brings precision cut-to-length/leveling capability to a market starving for high-performance material

Tool time

Written by: Super User
Published: 30 June 2021
Tool time

By installing a robotic system to manage slitter heads, a processor checks boxes on efficiency, quality, product range, worker safety and maintenance

Symmetry

Written by: Super User
Published: 07 May 2021
Symmetry

Major processor secures link with steel producer by installing stretcher-leveling line for high-volume toll business and trade sales

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Company Profiles

  • AIR FILTRATION
    • Camfil APC - Equipment
    • Camfil APC - Replacement Filters
  • ALUMINUM
    • Southern Aluminum Finishing Co.
  • BLAST CLEANING AND PEENING
    • Metal Finish Equipment & Supply Co.
  • COATINGS
    • PPG Industrial Coatings
  • COIL PROCESSING
    • ANDRITZ Metals USA Inc
    • Braner USA Inc.
    • b+s group
    • Butech Bliss
    • Red Bud Industries
    • The Bradbury Group
  • COLD FINISHED STEEL
    • Northlake Steel Corporation
  • COPPER & BRASS
    • Concast Metal Products Co
    • Copper and Brass Supply Chain Association
    • Farmers Copper
  • DEBURRING/FINISHING
    • ARKU
    • Hans WEBER
    • Lissmac Corp.
    • Timesavers
  • IRONWORKERS
    • Trilogy Machinery Inc
  • LASER TECHNOLOGY
    • AMADA AMERICA Inc.
    • BLM Group
    • MC Machinery Systems Inc.
    • TRUMPF Inc.
  • MATERIAL HANDLING
    • Caldwell Lifting Solutions
    • Combilift
    • EMH Crane
    • Fehr Warehouse Solutions Inc.
    • Steel Storage Systems
  • METAL FORMING
    • Faccin Group
  • MEASUREMENT & QUALITY CONTROL
    • Advanced Gauging Technologies
  • METAL FABRICATING MACHINERY
    • Cincinnati Inc
    • Faccin Group
    • Scotchman Industries, Inc.
    • Trilogy Machinery Inc.
  • NICKEL ALLOY
    • Sandmeyer Steel Company
  • PLASMA TECHNOLOGY
    • Messer Cutting Systems Inc.
  • PLATE
    • Churchill Steel Plate
    • Sandmeyer Steel Company
  • PLATE & ANGLE ROLLS
    • Davi
    • Faccin Group
    • Trilogy Machinery Inc.
  • POWDER COATING
    • Gema USA Inc.
  • PRESS BRAKE TOOLING
    • Rolleri USA
  • PRESS BRAKES
    • MC Machinery Systems Inc.
  • PUNCHING
    • Hougen Manufacturing, Inc.
  • SAWING
    • Behringer Saws Inc.
    • Cosen Saws
    • HE&M Saw
    • The L.S. Starrett Co.
    • Savage Saws
  • SERVICE CENTERS
    • Alliance Steel
    • Hubtex North America
    • Heidtman Steel
  • SOFTWARE
    • 4GL Solutions Metamation Inc.
    • Enmark Systems Inc.
    • Lantek Systems Inc.
  • STAINLESS STEEL
    • Admiral Steel
    • Heyco Metals
    • Sandmeyer Steel Company
  • STEEL
    • Alliance Steel
    • North American Steel Alliance
    • Texas Iron & Metal
  • SURPLUS STEEL
    • Texas Iron & Metal
  • TITANIUM
    • Sandmeyer Steel Company STS Metals
  • TUBE & PIPE
    • BLM Group
    • HGG Profiling Equipment Inc.
    • National Tube Supply (NTS)
    • Prudential Stainless & Alloys
  • WATERJET TECHNOLOGY
    • Barton International
    • Jet Edge Waterjet Systems
    • Omax Corp.
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