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.

Garner, North Carolina-based Hamlin Sheet Metal was founded in 1954 by William F. “Fred” Hamlin to manufacture commercial air-handling ductwork.  Hamlin Sheet Metal became the first division of the Hamlin Cos., which now includes Hamlin Roofing, Hamlin Fabricated Metals and Ultratech Industries.

The apprentices studying at Sheet Metal Workers Local 292’s training center learn all kinds of skills, but dealing with the aftermath of an August 2013 fire that destroyed the union’s offices was not among them.