April, 2014 Photos, Top, L-R: Metals USA Specialty Flat Rolled-Kansas City’s Kurt Krausse. A new Fanuc EDM at Van-Am Tool & Engineering. Bottom L-R: Robert Jacobsen, Keith Siebels & Larry Minter at Missouri Valley Steel with a Wardjet waterjet. Parts cut on the waterjet at MVS. National Metal Service Center Institute President Bob Weidner speaking at the Mid-America chapter meeting. METALS ISSUE Metals USA Specialty Flat Rolled-Kansas City Completes 30 Years Of Operation Missouri Valley Steel, Sioux City, IA, Expands Cutting Capacity Metals Service Center Institute- Mid-America Chapter Hears From Leader EMJ Receives AGCO North American Supplier of the Year Award Van-Am Tool & Engineering, St. Joseph, MO, Installs New Fanuc EDM Hartwig-St. Louis Holds Open House CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED MACI Publishing, Inc., 2432 SW Pepperwood Rd, Topeka, KS 66614-5293
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April, 2014
Photos, Top, L-R: Metals USA Specialty Flat Rolled-Kansas City’s Kurt Krausse. A new Fanuc EDM at Van-Am Tool & Engineering. Bottom L-R: Robert Jacobsen, Keith Siebels & Larry Minter at Missouri Valley Steel with a Wardjet waterjet. Parts cut on the waterjet at MVS. National Metal Service Center Institute President Bob Weidner speaking at the Mid-America chapter meeting.
Metals IssueMetals USA Specialty Flat Rolled-Kansas
City Completes 30 Years Of Operation Missouri Valley Steel, Sioux City, IA, Expands Cutting Capacity Metals Service Center Institute- Mid-America Chapter Hears From LeaderEMJ Receives AGCO North American Supplier of the Year AwardVan-Am Tool & Engineering, St. Joseph,
MO, Installs New Fanuc EDM Hartwig-St. Louis Holds Open House
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Van-Am Installs Fanuc EDM .......... 5ISM-KC Hears Predictions............. 6EMJ Receives AGCO Award ......... 8Chemical Coaters: Galvanizing ..... 10Haas Holds Seminars .................. 11Metals USA-KC: 30 Years ........... 12Missouir Valley Steel Expands
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Van-Am Tool & Engineering, LLC, St. Joseph, Missouri, has recently installed a new Fanuc Alpha C600iA-12 wire EDM.
The 33-year-old company is a full service source for tool and die, metal stamping, machining, metal fabrication, laser cutting, and manufacturing.
The new Fanuc Alpha C600iA-12, purchased from Mc-Clain Tool & Technology, replaces a Fanuc EDM purchased from McClain in 1996. “The reliabil-ity of the Fanuc and McClain’s service were big factors in our choice to choose a Fanuc EDM again,” stated Ed Makos, General Manager.
“The new model has a larger capacity, is twice as fast as the old one, and uses half the wire,” com-mented Preston Punzo, Managing Director of Sales & Marketing. “It will support our new tool and die builds, die maintenance work as well as custom work.”
“This additional equipment is part of our ongoing efforts to expand our capacity and improve our operations,” stated Van-Am’s Preston Punzo. “In some cases, this equipment is doubling our productivity compared to older equipment.”
Van-Am’s services include: complete design and build of pro-gressive, transfer, louver, blank, form, and draw dies; die mainte-nance and repair; short or long run production stamping; general and custom machine work (manual and CNC); wire EDM; design and build of jigs and fixtures; design, build, and repair of special ma-chines; laser cutting and precision CNC press braking; custom fabri-cation and welding; robotic weld-
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Van-Am operates in an 82,000-sq.-ft. facility and serves customers nationwide in a wide range of industries, including: agriculture, automotive, construc-tion, electrical, petroleum, govern-
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Van-Am Tool & Engineering can be contacted at: (816) 233-6622; Fax (816) 233-9422; 5025 Easton Road, St. Joseph, Missouri 64507; [email protected]; www.vanam-tool.com.
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Above: Part of Van-Am Tool & Engineering’s crew with the new Fanuc C600iA-12 wire EDM. General Manager Ed Makos is on the far right.
Above: An interior view of the Fanuc EDM at Van-Am Tool & Engineering.
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ISM-Kansas City, an affiliate of the Institute for Supply Management, held a dinner meeting on March 18th at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Overland Park, Kansas.
The featured speaker for the event was ZYCUS’ VP of Corporate Development Richard Waugh. He spoke about Predictions for Procurement in 2014. ZYCUS is a global consulting firm that specializes in procurement and supply chain solutions.
Waugh’s predictions included: Procurement organizations will become true “profit centers”; The best suppliers (and their suppliers) are the source of innovations and competitive differentiation; Predic-tive analytics will replace reactive analytics; Col-laborating in the cloud will become dominant; and Procurement must think “small” to unlock “big data” opportunities.
The Pre-Meeting speaker was Beth McCarthey of prepKC. She discussed how members can get involved educating local high school students about Supply Chain Management as a career and skills that are needed.
ISM-KC can be contacted at: www.ism-kansascity.org.
AGCO, a worldwide manu-facturer and distributor of agricul-tural equipment, presented “Sup-plier of the Year” awards during its second annual AGCO North America Supplier Day, held near Buford, Ga. The event focused on “Quality Growth Through Partner-ing” and was attended by more than 200 people from as many as 85 direct and indirect suppliers to AGCO. “Our business calls for true partnership with our suppliers in order to meet the unique needs and quality standards required to manufacture AGCO’s diverse and evolving line of agricultural equipment,” says Michael Clem, vice president of Purchasing and Materials, AGCO North America. “Their efforts are key to our suc-cess.” Since 2006, Purchasing and Materials, AGCO North America has increased its purchase of
Awards celebrate outstanding per-formance by the company’s part-ners in the areas of Collaboration, Quality, Logistics and Innovation. At the same time, these awards also recognize commitment to AGCO’s core values of Account-ability, Integrity, Respect, Team Spirit and Transparency.
2013 Supplier of the Year — Earle M. Jorgensen Company (EMJ), was represented by Paul Ioriatti, regional vice president and David Baltuska, district man-ager. EMJ was recognized for the company’s overall excellence in all areas of supplier performance including quality, timeliness, responsiveness, competitive pric-ing and collaboration. EMJ has been a leading supplier of steel and aluminum bar, tubing and plate to manufacturing companies in North America since 1923. With a broad network of facilities, superior inventories, process-ing capabilities and world-class technology, EMJ indeed provides unsurpassed service to AGCO. The company is headquartered in Lynwood, Calif.
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Above (l-r): EMJ’s Rick Butrous (inside sales that handles Agco) and Reita Mann (sales support for Agco) with the award from AGCO
direct materials from $400 million to more than $1.3 billion in 2013, a reflection of the 23-year-old company’s tremendous growth in North America during this time.
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Chemical Coaters Learn About Galvanizing; Tour AZZ Galvanizing Plant In Kansas City
Above: The CCAI seminar on galvanizing at Contrast Equipment.
Above (l-r): CCAI’s Cliff Slater and AZZ’s Kevin Irving at the seminar.
The Central States Chapter of the Chemical Coaters Associa-tion International (CCAI) met at Contrast Equipment Co. in Kansas City, Missouri on March 21st.
The meeting focused on gal-vanizing. AZZ Galvanizing Ser-vices’ Kevin Irving, NACE-CIP1, led a short seminar on the galva-nizing process and the situations
where it works best. He discussed ways that fabricators and manu-facturers can change processes and designs to achieve better results with galvanizing. He also covered pretreatment methods and how galvanizing can work with other coatings.
After the seminar, the group toured the AZZ plant in Kansas City, Missouri. AZZ is a family of 34 plants in 17 states and Canada. For over 40 years AZZ has been North America’s largest after-fabrication galvanizer.
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Above: A Haas factory manager leads a seminar on Hass turning centers in KC.
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Metals USA Specialty Flat Rolled-Kansas City, Liberty, Mis-souri, has recently completed 30 years of operation.
The company provides alumi-num, stainless steel, painted alu-minum, brass, copper, galvanized steel, expanded metal, aluminum bronze, specialty items and alumi-num extrusions across seven states in the mid-America region.
Services offered include: sheeting, shearing, sawing and slitting.
Since its founding in 1983, as Professional Metals, the company has grown and undertaken nu-merous improvements. The firm was purchased by Metals USA in 1999. Metals USA became a subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum in 2013.
In 2007 the company expand-ed its Liberty facility to 122,000 square feet. It has a Braner preci-sion leveler/cut-to-length line that handles aluminum and stainless up to 1/4” thick, 72 inches wide and 22 feet in length. It also has a Herr-Voss leveling/cut-to-length line that can handle material up to 1/8” thick to 60” wide and 20 feet in length.
“It’s all about service, service, service,” stated Kurt Krausse, Metals USA Specialty Flat Rolled Kansas City’s general manager and 20+ year industry veteran. “We work hard at being a partner to our customers. Our founders, Bill Drummond and Lew Krausse, built a solid reputation on service and we strive to be a cut above our competitors when it comes to service.”
To make his point, Krausse noted that the firm is ISO-cer-tified, has 13 trucks leaving the company’s facility every day for delivery across the region and
Metals USA Specialty Flat Rolled-Kansas City Completes 30 Years of Operation
Above & Below: Examples of the extensive inventory at Metals USA-KC.
Above (l-r): Metals USA Specialty Flat Rolled Kansas City’s (Back Row) Brian Lenz, Dan Guenther, Gary Rutledge and Gary Crabtree. (Front Row) Mike Higgins, Amber Tompkins, Kurt Krausse and Patrick Lynch.
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Missouri Valley Steel Co. (MVS), Sioux City, Iowa, is dramatically expanding its cutting capabilities by adding a waterjet cutting system with four cutting heads and 20’ x 40’ table and will soon be installing a new Mazak Fabrigear 400 tube laser system in June.
MVS is an ISO-certified fabricator specializing in gauge material all the way to heavy plate fabrication (up to 8”) and offers bending, rolling, flame cutting, plasma cutting, enhanced HyDefi-
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“This new cutting equipment expands our offerings for our customers and will help us achieve greater efficiency in our operations and shorten
Above (l-r): Robert Jacobsen, Keith Siebels & Larry Minter at MVS.
Above: A laser crew with a Trumpf 3030 laser cutting system at MVS.
Above: The 20’ x 40’ Wardjet waterjet cutting system at MVS. Above: The quad heads on the waterjet.
turnaround times.” stated Rob-ert Jacobsen, MVS’ VP/General Manager and long-time industry veteran. “Upgrading our equipment with advanced technologies is an ongoing process for us.” He noted that MVS installed two Messer heavy-duty cutting systems just last year.
The Wardjet waterjet system features water cooling and recy-cling systems and can generate up to 60,000-psi at the cutting head.
The new Mazak Fabrigear MKII 400 3D tube laser can handle shapes up to 12” square and up to 50’ in length. It can process and tap beams, tube, angles, channels, rounds, pipe and flat pieces.
Besides being a first step processor and weldment fabrica-tor, MVS also designs and builds a complete line of self-cleaning “Slagger®” cutting tables for cutting steel, aluminum and stainless up to12” thick. Its latest tables include shuttle systems for maximizing production of cutting operations. MVS’s cutting tables are marketed and sold exclusively worldwide by Messer Cutting Systems.
MVS operates in a 120,000-sq.-ft. facility with a veteran crew of 80 employees and impressive array of equipment that fills out the facility.
MVS is a division of Owen Industries which has four divisions throughout the Midwest. Owens Industries is continually expanding its operations and adding new tech-nology. This includes fiber lasers in its Omaha facility and a level two finishing facility in its Cassel-ton, North Dakota facility.
Missouri Valley Steel can be contacted at: (712) 255-1616; Fax (712) 255-9632; PO Box 1288 • 1300 Division Street, Sioux City Iowa 51102; www.mvsteel.com.
Above: Parts cut from steel plate with the waterjet at MVS.
Hartwig Inc., the largest dis-tributor of machine tool solutions and inspection equipment in the Midwest and Mountain regions, recently held an Open House at its St. Louis facility on March 11th and 12th.
With the theme of “March Machine Madness” the event included live demonstrations of numerous machine tools, seminars on a wide range of topics and a presentation on Improving Shop Productivity by Larry Schwartz, former President and CEO of Okuma America.
Schwartz’s presentation, the highlight of the event, was well received by shop owners and managers. The 40-year industry veteran (who started out on a shop floor) covered topics including: set up reduction, automation, job planning, improved processes, leadership and communica-tion. The company recorded the presentation and it is available for viewing.
Equipment on display in-cluded four Okuma machines (a VMC, an HMC a 2-axis lathe and a multi-function lathe); a Bridge-port VMC with pallet changer and a Tsugami 6-axis opposed gang tool lathe.
Okuma’s THINC-OSP-P300 control was also demonstrated.
Representatives from major tooling, workholding, cooling and CAD/CAM manufacturers were also on hand to bring attendees up to date on the latest developments. These included: Autonetics; Caron Engineering; Edge Technologies; Esprit Programming; Hexagon Metrology; Kennametal; Kom
Precision; MP Sysytems; Sandvik and Velocity/SU-matic.
“This event is for shops look-ing to improve their manufactur-ing processes and learn about technology advancements,” stated Hartwig’s Greg Hartwig. “This is just another part of our com-plete service which includes first-class machines, superior service & training, extensive parts inventory and applications/turnkey assis-
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Above (l-r): Steve Shuert, Greg Hartwig, Larry Schwartz, Nick Berilla & Craig Jung at Hartwig’s “March Machine Madness” Open House in St. Louis.
Above: Hartwig’s “March Machine Madness” Open House in St. Louis.
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The Mid-America chapter of the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) held its Annual Spring 2014 Inside/Outside Reception and Dinner at The Ameristar Casino in Kansas City, Missouri on February 27th.
The featured speaker was MSCI National Presi-dent Bob Weidner. He spoke to the group about economic, business and government trends that will impact the metals industry. He noted that overall the MSCI is more optimistic than pessimistic for 2014. He encouraged everyone to take January and February business trends with a grain of salt due to the impact of severe weather.
Weidner also discussed five forces that will dra-matically change every business model in the future. These included: government growth/involvement; demographics; globalization; consolidation and tech-nology.
In other chapter business, past chapter president Greg Otto was recognized for his service to the chap-ter.
The MSCI can be contacted at: (800) 831-9252 or www.msci.org.
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Above: Part of the crowd at the MSCI meeting in KC.
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Some years ago we ran across a simple old poem that told how terrible it was that men and women were loaded into trams early each morning to go to work all day in the factories and mines. The next four lines related how tragic it was that the mines and factories had closed down and the workers now had no jobs to earn a living.
We assume there will always be a love/hate relationship with work, especially if working condi-tions are really bad or just boring. On the other hand, perhaps you’re eager to get to your laboratory each day to try another experiment. You probably wouldn’t even think about it as “work.” This is true for many
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Kevin D. Williamson had a recent article in National Re-view titled, “To Work Is to Live (The dignity of a day’s labor).” It provides some food for thought. Williamson says most people think they’re just working for a paycheck. But, even if you gave every single person a paycheck amounting to $100,000 a year, or even $100 million, they would still need to work just as much as they do now to maintain our current standard of living.
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Some time ago the Congres-sional Budget Office (CBO) released its evaluation of the Af-fordable Care Act in regard to its effect on the job market.
The report said “The reduc-tion in CBO’s projections of hours worked represents a decline in the number of full-time-equivalent workers of about 2 million in 2017, rising to about 2.5 million in 2024.
“Subsidies that help lower income people purchase an expen-sive product like health insurance must be relatively large to encour-age a significant proportion of
eligible people to enroll. If those subsidies are phased out with ris-ing income in order to limit their total cost, the phase-out effective-ly raises peoples marginal taxes (the tax rates applying to their last dollar of income) thus discourag-ing work.
“If the subsidies are financed at least in part by higher taxes, those taxes will further discourage work or create economic distorta-tions. If subsidies are not phased out or eliminated with rising income, then the increase in taxes
required to finance the subsidies would be much larger.”
So, no matter how you slice it, fewer people will have full-time jobs, more will be unemployed and taxes will go up. What’s re-ally strange is that some ACA sup-porters have rejoiced and called this a wonderful thing. They say that since the people probably didn’t like the jobs they had, now they can avoid job lock and finally have free time to pursue those vocations and activities they really
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“Money is just a means of fa-cilitating trade, and the real prob-lem facing low-skilled American workers is that they don’t have enough to trade–a condition that will not be relieved by price-fix-ing, which is what the minimum wage is,” Williamson concludes.
A close relative, that once owned several fast food restau-rants, used to throw up his hands in frustration when talking about hiring teenagers.
“Many don’t understand they have to be on time for their shift or wash their hands more than twice a day, or be able to make change, or take care of trash and spills even if that’s not their job description. The parents should be paying me for the first months training.”
Swiss/British philosopher Alain de Botton, author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, writes:
“Our work will at least have distracted us, it will have provided a perfect bubble in which to invest our hopes for perfection, it will have focused our immeasurable anxieties on a relatively small-scale and achievable goals, it will have given us a sense of mastery, it will have made us respectably tired, it will have put food on the table. It will have kept us out of greater trouble.” What more could we ask?
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Gladwin Machinery & Supply will host Metal Fabrication Ma-chinery Demo Days at its Kansas City area showroom/warehouse in Parkville Missouri, May 28th-30th.
The 31-year-old firm offers a wide selection of metal fabrication equipment across 11 Midwestern states.
Numerous pieces of equip-ment from more than a dozen brands will be up and running for the event. These include: press brakes, plate rolls, a waterjet system, a wide variety of saws, shears, CNC folders, finishing/deburring equipment and iron-workers.
Five seminars will be con-ducted at the event on a wide range of topics including: fiber la-ser technology versus plasma and
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information they need to pick the right equipment for their needs,” stated Matt Miller, KC Sales Manager.
Gladwin Machinery & Supply can be contacted at: (816) 777-5999 or www.gladwinmachinery.com.
Above: A SafanDarley B35-100T E-Brake that will be runnning at Gladwin’s May 28-30 Fabrication Demo Days at its Kansas City showroom.
Accurpress Edge Synchronized Forming System
Latest generation CNC Folding Machine
Innovative Vision Control
The first completely Electronic Brake. The E-Standard in efficiency, ergonomics, economy & ecology
SCA 550 Cut-Off Saw
10’ 14 GA Mechanical Shear
500 SNC Horizontal Band Saw TF-1418
Tilt Frame Saw
Cyclone Auto-4 Miter Arm Band Saw
DC-330NC Dual Column Saw Hydracrop 110 Ton
Ironworker www.gladwinmachinery.com
Mach3 4020 Waterjet
10’ x ¾” 4-Roll
5” x 5” x 12” Angle Roll
METAL FABRICATING MACHINERY DEMO DAYS May 28th, 29th & 30th
10’ x 10 GA 4-Roll
CNC Turret Punch Press
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SEMINARS: See Machines Under Power and Attend Seminars! Press Brake or Folder: What makes sense for you? Band Saw Selection: Determining the best saw CNC Rolling Technology: 3-Roll vs. 4-Roll and more Advancements in Waterjet Cutting: Learn what’s new! Laser vs. Plasma & Fiber Laser vs. CO2: See a machine offsite after seminar!
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Gladwin Machinery: 16203 North West 45 Hwy • Kansas City MO (816-777-5999) • Join Us May 28th -30th , 2014 from 9 am – 5 pm www.gladwinmachinery.com
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Ace Pattern & Foundry of Kansas Inc.1901 N. 10th St.Kansas City, KS 66104(TF) 877-551-1ACE(P) 913-371-5566(F) 913-371-8313www.acefoundry.com
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held a Shop Meeting at United Metal Spinning in Kansas City, Missouri.
The meeting was sponsored by Environmental Air Tech.
KC NTMA Meets At United Metal Spinning
The evening started with tours of the 5th generation family firm. The 84-year-old company offers metal spinning. This unique process takes a flat piece of metal and makes a cyclindrical object without a seam. The pieces produced include: funnels, goblets, light fixtures, fuel cans, missile nose cones, and can be made out of all types of metal including: steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, stainless steel, pewter, silver, and even gold.
United Metal Spinning can produce parts manually or with CNC equipment. This allows them to make prototypes or small runs as well as large runs.
The speakers for the event were Don Hamer, MicroAir Clean Air Systems and Mike Ellis, Environmental Air. They discussed air quality issues and regulations in the industry and the various methods to deal with them.
In other chapter business, Ruco Products, Blue Springs, Missouri, was presented a new member plaque.
The KC NTMA chapter can be contacted at www.kcntma.org.
Above (l-r): Ruco Products’ Derek Kirkpatrick and Brenda Rupert receive a new member plaque from KC Chapter President Roger Gubbels.
Above (l-r): Don Hamer, MicroAir Clean Air Systems and Mike Ellis, Environmental Air at the meeting.
Above: Part of the crowd at the KC NTMA meeting at United Metal Spinning.
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National Aluminum& Brass Foundry, LLC
Since 1921
1304 W Elm St. Independence, MO 64050 (P) 816-833-4500 • (F) 816-833-4507 • (W)www.nabfoundry.com
“Defining history one casting at a time.”
• Castings from 1 ounce to 25 lbs, up to 36” x 36” x 16”.• Alloys include: Aluminum, Red Brass, Yellow Brass, Manganese Bronze,
Nickel Bronze, Silicon Bronze, Aluminum Bronze, others upon request.
We design, cast, machine, plate and assemble brass, bronze, copper & aluminum sand castings
TCI Precision Metals has announced an agreement with Global Equipment Company, Inc. to distribute TCI Precision Ma-chine-Ready Blanks through its online store www.globalindustrial.com and printed catalog.
“Machine shops and other custom precision manufacturing
companies realize cost-saving benefits from using custom Machine-Ready Blanks, especially in terms of decreased cycle times and increased productivity and now Global Equipment Company makes buying them easier than ever, said John Belzer, President
of TCI Precision Metals. “Global Equipment Company
has multiple warehouse facilities throughout the U.S. and offers same day shipments on most orders.”
Machine-Ready Blanks are available through Global Equipment Company in 6061, 2024, 7075, 3003 and 5052 aluminum, 304 stainless and 316 stainless. They are ready to be placed directly onto the cus-tomer’s machining centers, elimi-nating time-consuming prep work. Machine-Ready Blanks are ground and milled to tolerances as close as +/- .002” all-around with consistent flatness, squareness and parallel-ism. Actual productivity gains vary depending on job specifications, but many customers gain as much as 25% increase in productivity using Machine-Ready Blanks, without adding equipment or people.
Founded in 1956, TCI Precision Metals is a family-owned precision manufacturer producing precision machine-ready blanks from alumi-num, stainless steel and other alloys, and providing contract manufactur-ing services. Sawing, grinding, mill-ing and finishing operations with the added benefit of being a plate and sheet distributor make the firm a one stop source for quality aluminum, stainless and other alloy blanks.
TCI is a warehouse plate and sheet distributor for Alcoa, Kaiser and Hulamin Aluminum, including 6061, 2024 or 7075 aluminum plate and sheet, stainless steel plate and several other alloys, The company stocks over 500,000 lbs. of material for quick turn-around on customer requirements.
TCI serves the needs of the medical, oil & gas, aerospace, industrial equipment, defense, food packaging, semiconductor and many other industries.
For more information, visit: http://tciprecision.com.
TCI Precision Metals To Distribute Machine-Ready Blanks Through Global Equipment Co.
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ISM-Wichita Learns About Presentations
The Wichita Chapter of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) held a membership meeting on March13th at Beechcraft Train-ing Center in Wichita.
The speaker for the meeting was Betty Schrader, MBA, from Beechcraft’s Corporate Profes-sional Development Training area.
Her topic was “Presenting with confidence.”
Schrader, a long-time veteran of her industry and an adjunct pro-fessor, discussed various ways to enhance the trust and believability for presenters. She emphasized that the visual and vocal (sounds)
aspects of a presentation have the most impact on the audience’s trust and believability of a speak-er. She took the audience through several examples and role-playing scenarios to make her point.
ISM-Wichita can be contacted at www.ismwichita.org.
Above (l-r): ISM’s Mike Swales with Beechcraft’s Betty Schrader.
Above: Part of the audience at the ISM meeting at Beechcraft.
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816 E. Callan Road • Monett, MO 65708Phone: 417-235-7182 • Fax: 417-235-8262
Above (l-r): Ed Hinders presents a membership plaque to Kluba Machine’s Joe Kluba & Luke Kluba. Nick Berilla is on the far right.
The St. Louis Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining As-sociation (NTMA) held an after-noon seminar and dinner meeting on April 1st at Spazio Westport in St. Louis.
The theme for both events was “IT Security: What are your Risks, Tools and Strategies?”
The featured speaker was Clif-tonLasonAllen’s Mark Eich, CPA, CISA and Principal, Information Security.
Eich covered trends in cyber crime, key methods being used by hackers and key defensive mea-sures that can protect your busi-ness. He gave an eye-opening program on IT security and busi-nesses’ vulnerability to online theft. Mark shared examples of small organizations’ losses that made the topic real and personal to those in attendance, then provided 10 basic action items that can help protect their financial and data assets from a hacker.
In other chapter business Kluba Machine was welcomed as a new member.
The St. Louis NTMA can be contacted at: (314) 378-1293 or [email protected].
St. Louis NTMA Learns About IT Security
Above: Mark Eich speaking at the meeting.
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The Mo-Kan Chapter of the American Foundry Society (AFS) met on March 18th at the Argosy Casino in Kansas City.
The featured speaker was Leo Baran, AFS Cor-porate Membership Director.
Baran, a longtime veteran of the metal casting industry, brought the chapter up to speed on events and trends in the industry.
His topic was “The State of the U.S. Metalcast-ing Industry Moving Forward.” He noted that while the number of foundries in the U.S. is declining, the remaining ones are larger and the overall output is growing. In 2013 the industry shipped product worth more than $34 billion. This ranks the U.S. second in worldwide production. 2014 and 2015 es-timates anticipate more growth. “80% of foundries are small businesses with less than 100 employees,” stated Baran. “We see growth in ductile iron, alumi-num, magnesium and copper castings.”
Mo-Kan AFS can be contacted at: (913) 621-1320.
Mo-Kan AFS Hears From National Director: Future Industry Growth Projected
Above (l-r): Mo-Kan AFS’ Paige Vallet and Leo Baran.
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Upcoming Trade Shows
May 7-8, 2014 Oklahoma City
Industrial & Tool Show, Cox Building, Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City, OK; Expo Inc., 800-648-2792, www.expoindustrialshows.com
October 8-9, 2014Nebraska Products Show for Business & Industry, Fonner Park, Grand Island, NE; Mid-America Expositions, Inc., 402- 346-5412, www.showofficeonline.com
October 20-22, 2015Wichita Industrial Trade Show (WITS), Century II Expo Hall, Wichita, KS, 316-942-2401, www.witshow.org
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