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“Kansas City, here I come . . . ”

There’s an old story about a sailor so fed up with the ocean-going life that he wanted to get as far away from the sea as possible. He took an oar, put it over his shoulder and started walking inland. When he got to a point where someone looked at the oar and said, “Hey mister! What’s that funny thing on your shoulder?” then he’d stop and settle there.

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Seven Kilowatts of Advantage

Incremental improvement is no longer enough in these times of increased competition and decreased financial security. Securing a long-term competitive advantage takes vision. That’s a quality that Debro Steel, a division of Premetalco, Inc. of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, showed when it became one of the first steel service centers in North America to deploy a TLX-1480 three-axis laser system 7 kW laser.

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The Clean Plate Club

Machining a large polycarbonate plate wasn’t the problem for this shop, it was how to hold it in place. Taping it down worked, but entailed after-work cleaning. Then the shop found the answer in a vacuum.

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