TPT March 2020

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BLM Group celebrates Intube success The BLM Group has celebrated the success of its Open House event, Intube 2019, which attracted a record number of visitors. Republic and Poland. Some customers travelled from countries as far away as Australia or from other countries, such as Saudi Arabia, for the first time ever.

projects that embodied the ‘Ordinary Special’ slogan of the event. Visitors were also able to see the ADIGE production plant, with 12,000m 2 of covered space, in which the ‘Lean Production’ organisational principles are combined and the Industry 4.0 concepts are embraced.

Visitors to the event included a high number of customers from all over the world, together with suppliers, journalists and visitors from many institutions. The largest group of foreign customers came from Germany, with many others also from the USA, France, Czech

The event, which was made up of three pavilions included software demonstration stations showing what the BLM Group offers to the manufacturing industry, as well as the active research and development

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3D robotic pipe and tube cutting technology increases capabilities of Sharpe Products

and drilling, thereby helping to reduce lead times and manage costs. Adding to its existing line-up of fibre optic laser cutting machines, the JENOPTIK-Votan BIM is well-suited for automotive exhaust and emissions control, agriculture, heavy equipment and industrial applications.

capabilities, allowing us to increase production efficiencies and reduce time-to-market for numerous job specifications,” said Paul Krickeberg, president and CEO of Sharpe Products. With this capability, features such as holes, slots or notches can be added after the bending process, eliminating more costly tooling and secondary operations such as machining, coping

AS PART of an overall investment in its production facilities, Sharpe Products, a specialist in tube and pipe fabrication, has recently added to its technology stack with a JENOPTIK-Votan BIM fibre optic, robotic cutting machine. The new machine is used to reach, turn and cut complex 3D components and is built for multi-axis pipe and tube fabrication. “This new technology adds strength to our laser cutting and bending

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