IMTS 2014 Chicago

Mike welcomes you at Molemab Booth #7275 - Pavillon Abrasive Machining-Sawing -Finishing

IMTS Fact Sheet

www.imts.com

Name of Show: IMTS - International Manufacturing Technology Show
Show Sponsor: AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology
Show Dates: September 8-13, 2014
Show Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, IL USA

About the Event:
IMTS 2014 is the 30th edition of the premier manufacturing technology show in North America. 1,900 exhibiting companies will occupy 1,240,863 net square feet of exhibit space at the McCormick Place complex in Chicago, Illinois. IMTS is held every even-numbered year in Chicago and attracts more than 100,000 buyers and sellers from over 112 countries.

Pavilions:
To help guide attendees to booths quickly and easily, we organize exhibits in Pavilions that are geared toward specific industries, technologies and solutions. Find out more about the pavilions.

Attendees:
Manufacturing industry professionals from all over the world attend IMTS to see more than 15,000 new machine tools, controls, computers, software, components, systems and processes that can improve their efficiency. They gain valuable ideas and insights from over 1,100 of the worlds leading equipment producers. They come to look and they come to buy.

Exhibitors:
Over 1,900 exhibitors from the metalworking industry will display their products and productivity solutions at McCormick Place in Chicago covering 1.2 million net square feet of show floor. Leading manufacturers will display their equipment in product category pavilions:

Metal Cutting: contains everything from machining centers and assembly automation to flexible manufacturing systems and lathes.
Tooling & Workholding Systems: features jigs, fixtures, cutting tools of all types and related accessories.
Metal Forming & Fabricating/Laser Processes: home to waterjet, plasma-arc and laser systems, welding equipment, heat treating and more.
Other pavilions at IMTS include Abrasive Machining /Sawing/Finishing; Controls & CAD –CAM; EDM; Gear Generation; Industrial Automation North America; Machine Components/ Cleaning/ Environmental and Quality Assurance.

Flex-Trim USA Booth #7275
Pavillon Abrasive Machining/Sawing/Finishing

NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING 2014

Mike Thorne, Tech and Sales Manager.

Mike and Flex-Trim USA thank you for visiting our booth at NWFA 2014 Expo 

on April 16-19, in Nashville, TN.

Call us at 1 855 437 3390 to ask for the Flex Trim System solution.

Thank you!

News from FLEX-TRIM™

AWFS 2013

Thank you for your visit at Flex Trim USA booth 8831 in Las Vegas AWFS.

 

 

IMTS 2012

Thank you for visiting Flex Trim at the IMTS 2012 in Chicago, Il from Sept. 10th to the 15rh 2012. 

See you at the next show!!!

Improving lifetime more than 100% !

Flex Trim brushes on RobaTech

After testing different sanding brushes one of our big customers have improved their lifetime of their tools by more than 100% using Flex-Trim sanding brushes. 

• From special applications to main production lines

In the summer 2008 our customer wanted to review their costs for sanding brushes and invited another supplier to test against their sanding brush suppliers for their main production lines.
Until then Flex Trim had been supplying this customer only with headsand strips for a number of ‘special’ applications such as Disc Sanders for double end tenoneers. It was decided to allow Flex Trim to join the test as well, even though list prices per meter brush were significantly higher than any of the other suppliers in the test.
 

• Longer lifetime on the brushes

Flex Trim and a low cost brand were mounted on several machines in the production, Venjakob, RobaTech, RobaBig, FlexSander 100 etc. One example of the tests was made on a RobaBig with 2 pcs 1550mm drums (each 48 brushes) and 2 pcs 1420 drums (each 48 brushes).
- Flex Trim brushes were mounted in early June. In early November they were removed (not fully worn out).
- The low cost product was mounted early November, mid-December 50% strips needed to be replaced.
- The current supplier at that time replaced 50% of all sanding brushes every 2 weeks.
 

This resulted in the following estimated stand time:

Current supplier    Alternative (low cost)    Flex Trim* 

1-2 month                3 months                       >5 months

* As opposed to the competing brands, Flex Trim only equipped half number of strips in the machines, and no support brushes were needed either. 

• 2 years agreement with service-agreement

Having achieved both a good sanding quality as well as savings on sanding brushes, the customer decided to make a supplier agreement with Flex Trim A/S.
It is crucial, for maintaining long lifetime and high quality that the Flex Trim brushes are used correctly. That is why a part of the agreement with Flex Trim includes ongoing training of new staff members – also on the evening and night shifts. Besides, Flex Trim guarantees that the customer never runs out of sanding brushes in order to make sure that production never will be stopped or delayed due to missing equipment.
 

• Other benefits for the customer:

· Less scrap and re-work
· More efficient work process
· More uniform quality

 FLEX-TRIM® • Quality not only on the surface