In 1982, John Del Vecchio joined the Met-Coil Systems Corporation’s Board of Directors to help navigate impending litigation facing the machinery brand’s daughter companies, Iowa Precision and Lockformer.      

As fiber lasers become a common fixture in sheet metal shops around the country, SNIPS is exploring their safety, power and precision in a three-part informational series on SNIPSmag.com.

Submit photos of your best sheet metal fabrication work, and see your photos published in an upcoming issue of SNIPS Magazine.

In conversation, our Sheet Metal Contractor of the Year is full of Yoda-like insights on how to achieve success in the sheet metal fabrication business. 

The annual SNIPS Buyers Guide compiles the best HVAC tools and instruments in the industry for your convenience.

LVD Strippit has introduced the Dyna-Press 40/15 Pro to its Dyna-Press Series of high-speed electric-drive press brakes. 

Look around you. The sheet metal machinery on your shop floor is the lifeblood of your business. But as an extension of your workforce, do you know what machines to recruit and what to retire?

Are you an artificial intelligence (AI) optimist or pessimist? Today, AI is often thought of as either the end of the world as we know it; when robots will take all of our jobs; or the answer to all our problems, when AI is the ultimate solution to save the planet.

The flexible XLTbend folding machine will allow your shop to efficiently form complex precision sheet metal parts like cassettes, panels and boxes. 

After introducing the time-saving advantages of the C-RHEX chuck driver’s reversible 1/4 -5/16 hex socket barrel and easily-cleanable magnet last year, Malco has added new 2-3/4” (MSHLC), 4” (MSHMLC) and 6” (MSHXLC) lengths.