Article: Stainless steel tapped for modular underbars.(Of Material Interest)

Underbar equipment designed to enhance a bartender's efficiency is engineered by Glastender Inc., Saginaw, Mich. To maintain flexibility in manufacturing its modular bar equipment, Glastender's metal fabrication department now has seven CNC-controlled press brakes, all supplied by Cincinnati Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. Three 800 kN (90 ton) machines were purchased in the past two years.

"We run about a thousand different parts a week in varying quantities and do a die change on pretty much every job," says Matt Hartman, engineering coordinator. Most of the parts produced by Glastender take a box shape, he notes. "We do standard box parts with depths up to 61 cm (24 ...

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