TPT November 2014

Industry News

Victor announces 2014 student cutting and welding contest VICTOR Technologies is set to award more than $30,000 in equipment and cash prizes as part of its 2014 “A Cut Above” student contest. The contest is open to students in cutting, welding and related programmes (eg, Ag Mechanics) at secondary and post-secondary schools. Three beginner students will each win $250 by submitting a 500-word essay that the judges deem to best support the contest theme. Judges will also choose three advanced student winning teams, and each member of the winning team wins $500; advanced students will submit a team metal fabrication project that incorporates an oxy-fuel, air-fuel or plasma cutting process. Further, the each of the schools associated with the winners at their time of entry will receive the following prize package, valued at more than $4,000: Victor ® Medalist 250 medium duty cutting system; one Victor Thermal Dynamics ® Cutmaster 42 air plasma cutting outfit; one Tweco Fabricator ® 211i 3-in-1 Stick-MIG-TIG welding machine kit; and two Tweco ® 4-sensor auto-darkening welding helmets. Victor Technologies – USA Website: www.victortechnologies.com

SOLUTIONS FOR AUTOMOTIVE T-DRILL offers full range of fabrication solutions for your tube forming and cutting applications for automotive industry

S-54 The T-DRILL collaring method enables reliable and easy T-joining of tubes. It is cost-effective solution for fluid carrying systems being used in heating, cooling and power steering tubing.

TCC - Series The T-DRILL chipless rotary tube cut-off systems provides a highly automated, fast and accurate method for cutting small diameter tubes to length from coils or straight lengths. In-line Endformers are available for all common end forms in copper, aluminium and steel.

IT’S THE TOOLS THAT SAY HOW GOOD YOU ARE

This Halloween- worthy “Victor Man” sculpture won one of the three team awards in the 2013 Victor Technologies A Cut Above contest

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