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Lasertube precision: the key to a winning business strategy

Jan 26, 2022 8:47:00 AM

Mr. Li, founder, sole owner and General Manager of Jiaxing Haiong Electromechanical Technology, has always had a real fascination for designer furniture. At the beginning of his working career Mr. Li traded in raw materials for the food processing sector and designed furniture made of wood as a second job.

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8 reasons for choosing an all-electric tube bending machine

Jan 18, 2022 2:04:00 PM

Automatic tube bending machines are widely used in a variety of areas of application such as automotive, motorcycle, aerospace, furniture, industrial vehicles, and residential and industrial heating and cooling systems.

Unlike the traditional manual tube bending machines, mainly used as work tools on construction sites, automatic tube bending machines are real industrial systems for mass production of components made from tube and can be electric hydraulic, hereinafter simply called hydraulic tube bending machines, or all-electric.
This article describes the main advantages offered by the all-electric tube bending machines.

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Van Keulen: Costruction of interior furniture with Lasertube

Jan 11, 2022 4:34:07 PM

Van Keulen is a well-known interior design and shop fitting producer with more than 70 years of experience in these sectors.

With its 3 production plants and 5 assembly locations in the Netherlands, Van Keulen has been designing, producing and supplying high-quality custom interior solutions such as shop, catering and public space fittings, shelves and furniture.

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Managing weld seams makes the difference in tube processing

Jan 4, 2022 9:48:00 AM

There are many cases in which the weld seams on tubes are an issue that must be addressed in order to obtain satisfactory finished parts. Technical requirements, appearance, structural and thickness tolerances and process continuity of the weld do not allow for leaving the position of the weld seam to chance. This rings true for laser cutting and bending alike. Let's take a closer look at the solutions available on BLM GROUP systems.

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Optimal preparation of production batches and nesting

Dec 20, 2021 8:28:14 AM

Creating production batches is a key step of tube processing on the shop floor.

The jobs loaded on the machine must contain all the information needed to proceed, including machine movement instructions, geometric details of the part, material characterization and technological options.

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The solution for any need is a tube and sheet laser cutting system

Dec 7, 2021 7:07:59 PM

“For us, the cutting time is not a particularly important parameter, the flexibility of the system is much more important, the process as a whole counts, and it's just not possible to compare the manual work of before with the current situation.”

Céline Hugot, owner of Viollet Industries

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Small batches? How to produce the fixtures for 3D laser cutting?

Nov 23, 2021 8:42:58 AM

In 3D Laser cutting, the part to be cut needs to be positioned and held in the working area of the machine in a repeatable way. One must use some kind a support to achieve this objective. Such supports are known as fixtures, reference fixtures or fixing gauge

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Metazet FormFlex uses BLM GROUP for tube and sheet laser cutting

Nov 18, 2021 2:04:20 PM

The Dutch firm Metazet FormFlex, global total partner in horticulture, replaced its existing BLM GROUP laser cutting machines after 17 years with the GROUP’s latest technology tube and sheet machinesp.

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Walcarius shakes up the construction world with 3D laser cutting

Oct 19, 2021 7:39:02 PM

The Belgian based metal construction company Walcarius NV wanted to stand out in the steel construction world by exploiting tube and beam machining and their interlocking potential offered by 3D laser cutting.

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The tube bender reshaping power distribution in electric vehicles

Oct 4, 2021 11:54:47 AM

Copper and aluminium busbars have always been used for conducting electric current in a wide variety of equipment, such as transformerselectrical cabinets, switchgear, generators and generally in all-electric engineering applications where very high powers are involved.

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