Gripnail Introduces Sam... Replacement Controller for Coil Line Pinners Gripnail has developed a spacing acquisition module (SAM) to determine pin spacing for their Power Pinner 50 multihead coil line welders. The SAM is mounted on the coil line after the metal has been notched and before it is flanged. It “reads” the notches in the edge...
You Know the Brand Names now meet The Parent Company The 100+ employees of Lockformer®, Iowa Precision® and Engel® want to thank our loyal customers for sticking with us throughout the first decade of the 21st century. Participating recently in the AHR show in Orlando, we were reminded of how the duct shops from around the...
The heart of Total Air Supply’s sheet metal shop was a 30-year-old Engel Industries coil line. The front of it, production manager Rich Hagerty said, was “as solid and fast as anything you can buy today.” But the back end was slowing the New Hampshire-based operation to 22 feet per minute. Company Vice President Sue...
A new machine wasn’t going to make ColonialWebb Contractors — already a $200 million operation — a success. But company officials said it would make them more successful.That’s what led to the Richmond, Va.-based operation’s decision to purchase a new $750,000 coil line equipped with a power-pinning system that they say makes it one of the...