Metal Technology has installed and begun operating a new 1200-ton press at its facility in Albany, Oregon. The new press will allow the company to further expand its deep-draw capabilities, by being able to offer a wider variety of diameter sizes, wall thicknesses and product form lengths.
Pat Coffey, VP of operations explains, “The press not only has CNC capabilities for consistent operations across a single job but also, because of the equipment’s 84-inch stroke with 122-inches of daylight, allowing us to start with a two-inch thick titanium or tantalum plate and make it into a 65-inch long seamless tube.”
MTI will now also be able to form thicker material and material with denser properties because the press table is heavy-duty 60-inch by 60-inch. Just one of the many projects the press has already made is a complex stainless steel aircraft wing-rib, however it will also be able to complete projects for thin-film industries by also using tantalum, copper, titanium and even silver.
“The new press will allow us to deep draw up to two-inch material and back extrude product forms to thinner, longer dimensions than we ever have before,” said Kirt Curran, MTI’s Manager of Technical Services.