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...In one example, in BYD’s early days, Wang acquired a panel-stamping tool from Jeep in Beijing....
...The unusual angular design meant Tesla could make the Cybertruck’s roof from a single piece of metal, he said, rather than investing in an expensive stamping press....
...Traditionally, the main body of a car has been made by welding or stamping together a large number of separate parts....
...Titomic uses an additive manufacturing process, which sprays titanium alloy particles on to a scaffold, layer by layer, from a print head or nozzle, rather than by stamping or cutting metal panels on assembly...
...An investment in Tesla followed in 2005 and Mr Watkins set about re-engineering everything from a supplier’s metal-stamping factory in Switzerland to the US direct sales model....
...Pentaflex, an Ohio-based contract manufacturer of metal stampings and assemblies, has been having a very strong year, with sales in the first six months up 27 per cent....
...“Many carmakers will stand back and say if I need to do hot stamping, can I do the same with aluminium?” says Mr Robinet of IHS....
...There, a servo motor press – an electrically-powered stamping machine – turns steel sheet like that produced at the Calvert mill into body panels for Honda and Acura brand vehicles....
...generated hype over potential home use – including gun making – it is becoming an important complement to the multinationals’ labour-intensive Asian factories. 3D printers lay down particles of plastic, metal...
...the company behind the Goldsmiths, Mappin & Webb and Watches of Switzerland jewellery stores - The London Stock Exchange is preparing to charge into the £1bn bid battle for control of the London Metal...
...Fimalac’s interests soon spanned publishing, stamping machines, fireworks, chemical storage, precious metals, polling, real estate, hand tools and furniture....
...Ford and Sollers, for example, are proposing to produce engines and operate a stamping facility in Russia. Gaz’s contract-manufacturing deal with VW, if signed, would be the third of its kind....
...Erick Ajax, vice-president of EJ Ajax, a metal stampings supplier with 50 employees in Fridley, Minnesota, says his company’s international expansion makes him “cautiously optimistic” in spite of the prevailing...
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