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Klein Tools has expanded and enhanced its hole-making product line. The new products include bi-metal hole saws, double-fluted step drill bits and wood-boring bits.

E Instruments new indoor air quality monitors offer the ability to measure various parameters including: ambient temperature, relative humidity percentage, wet bulb, dewpoint, differential pressure and barometric pressure.

The ongoing BIM revolution is transforming how buildings are constructed. And that’s true at every level, from the initial architectural drawings right down to the design and fabrication of metal components like ductwork.

Working on SNIPS’ 75th and 80th anniversary issues was one of my favorite projects. I’ve always been interested in history, and pouring over dusty old copies of SNIPS was a lot of fun.

Sheet metal forming equipment manufacturer Cidan Machinery has become part of the Metal Construction Association. 

An Indiana-based sheet metal contractor put aluminum panels on a medical facility’s glass-and-brick structure.

A science building at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, underwent renovations to meet the mechanical and educational needs of its students.

A lot of business owners may throw around the phrase “friendly competition,” but few would probably take the concept as far as Kevin Gill Sr. 

If you want to see the first multihead machine Gripnail Corp. ever made, don’t go to the company’s headquarters in Rhode Island.

Instead, head to Loveland, Colorado — but don’t expect to see a museum-quality piece. The well-used 1973 machine is in Kuck Mechanical’s sheet metal shop, attached to a coil line, where it runs every day, fastening insulation to ductwork. 

Many in the sheet metal works industry are not eager to talk about safety until something goes wrong. Obviously, by then it’s too late.