The Fabricator - Sample Issue

laser cutting machines now are avail- ing the machine price at $248,500. able in a new product called the The new machine is capable of Super Turbo-X Champion. The cutting up to 0.470-in. mild steel, equipment is aimed at the fabricating 0.160-in. stainless steel and alu-operation that might want to pur- minum, and 0.080-in. brass without chase a laser, but has refrained from the need to change any of the optical doing so because of price. In an settings manually. The laser cutting uncommon move, Mazak is publiciz- machine has the same closed-box

frame and CNC that are found on the HyperGear. It has a 4- by 8-ft. worktable; a 5- by 10-ft. table will be available in the near future.

Even with the smaller laser cutting machine, the same principle of productivity applies to the machine user, Citron said.

“If you eliminate or reduce the setup time, I don’t care how fast your laser is. I’m going to make more parts than you,” he said.

—Dan Davis, Executive Editor

Two of the biggest decisions a

structural fabricator will ever make

are the layout of his fabrication shop

and the selection of the proper

equipment to fill that floorspace.

But, which company will you choose?

The reputation associated with the

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• Large Capacities up to 44"–1100 mm and 52"–1250mm wide

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• Process Clip or clete, bracing angle, connections etc up to 8 x 3/4"–200 x 20mm

• Process Plate/Flat stock for base plates, cap plates, shims, etc. 12 x 1"–305 x 25mm

• Multiple hole punching, Scribe Part Marking, Single Cut Shearing in one process

• Compact design– 47 square feet ( 4. 4 square meters)

Since 1903 Peddinghaus has met

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HIGH SPEED BAND SAWS—NEW SPEED SAWING TECHNOLOGY Eliminates Bottlenecks With One Operator for Saw and Drill

• Muscular Design with 20 HP and rugged gearbox powers through material

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Poor post-Katrina construction
training turnout blamed on
housing shortage

Plans by the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana to train thousands of Gulf Coast workers for the many construction jobs created by Hurricane Katrina are falling far short of expectations.

Multimillion-dollar grants from the U.S. Labor Department make most of the training programs free, including tuition, books, supplies, and safety equipment. However, officials with community colleges and apprenticeship programs that benefit from the federal financing say they have many more openings than applicants—a situation they blame on the continued shortage of viable housing in the New Orleans area.

“We have people calling from as far away as Maryland and as close as Mississippi who want to go through the training,” Lauren King, dean of work force development at Louisiana Technical College’s Region 1, told the Times-Picayune of New Orleans. “But the problem is that they have nowhere to live.”

Still, there have been some success stories among those who are able to get the training.

The New Orleans newspaper reported that Sidney Frazier, 23, a single father with two young children, who worked as a landscaper in New Orleans before Katrina, decided to take the 61⁄2-week shipbuilding program in welding after he returned to the area in the spring from his post-Katrina residence in Atlanta. He hadn’t even completed the program when he got his first job offer.

Now he’s living in Westwego and working full-time as a welder in New Orleans. He says the work provides much better pay than landscaping, and he credits the training with getting him the job.