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ATI Industrial Automation
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
Dmitry Kalinovsky | Dreamstime
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
acp systems AG
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
NW Machine Tool Expo
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Northwest Machine Tool Expo 2023

May 11, 2023 - May 12, 2023
Transmet Corporation
Transmet's expansion centered on the process of collecting and classifying zinc shot.
Transmet's expansion centered on the process of collecting and classifying zinc shot.
Transmet's expansion centered on the process of collecting and classifying zinc shot.
Transmet's expansion centered on the process of collecting and classifying zinc shot.
Transmet's expansion centered on the process of collecting and classifying zinc shot.

Transmet Expands Cast Zinc Shot Plant

Nov. 17, 2012
Self-finances, with grant from OBWC Company produces aluminum, zinc shot for finishing

Transmet Corporation, a specialty manufacturer of blast media for castings, paint removal, and automotive component remanufacturing, reported it has expanded its cast zinc shot production operation, a project that focused on the means of collecting and classifying cast zinc shot for packaging. The company noted that the expansion and improvements will make it possible to increase production of cast zinc shot material, and improve operator safety.

Transmet indicated the improvements were financed internally, aided by a grant from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation. Columbus-based Applied Engineering Solutions designed new equipment. Specialty machining was done by Crist’s Machining in Lancaster, OH, and H.I.P. Mobile Welding, Stoutsville, OH, carried out the project installation.

Columbus-based Transmet Corp. produces “rapidly solidified metal flakes (aluminum and zinc), shot media, and particulates” by quenching molten metal at up to 1,000,000°C/second. Molten metal is pressured by pumps or air onto a casting substrate. The aluminum flakes, zinc flakes, and other particulates, including aluminum and zinc shot, are supplied as blasting media for paint or coating removal and surface finishing.

The cast zinc shot is a soft metallic shot for deburring, deflashing, and general cleaning of light metal castings and other nonferrous products. It has a bulk density comparable to steel, but can be used to remove burrs and flash without damaging product surfaces. The high-grade zinc cast zinc shot is similar in hardness to zinc cut wire and delivers an equivalent surface finish on castings, but will last up to 50% longer than zinc cut wire, according to Transmet.

A second variety of cast zinc shot is harder and more aggressive in its treatment of casting surfaces, but will last up to 300% longer than zinc cut wire in blast cleaning operations.