Accra-Wire Controls, Inc.
For more than 20 years, AWC has been designing and manufacturing equipment for the changing needs of industry. From humble beginnings, AWC now designs and manufactures the largest variety of dereelers (payoffs) for spring wire, wire forming, weld wire, coiled steel, coiled tubing, and more. We also manufacture a fine line of tension controlled take-ups, precision level layer rewind systems, and our unique lot control systems.
Booth No. 0823
Admiral Steel
Admiral Steel is an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9002 certified custom manufacturer of stainless steel alloys including stainless, spring and tool steels and other alloys. Types of steel alloys include cold and hot rolled, pickled, alloy, bar, carbon steel, cold finished, blue tempered spring, structural and tempered steel alloys and more. Industries served include architectural, automotive, aircraft, military, agricultural and commercial.
At Admiral Steel we believe that some things are more important than the bottom line. We’ve carefully invested in people and technologies that help us to better serve our customers.
Booth No. 0928
Alloy Wire
Our Precision Shaped Wires division is a specialist in the manufacture of flat, square and special shaped wires in most materials used by the spring maker: Stainless steel; Music wire; Phosphur-Bronze; Carbon steel; Brass; Copper; Nickel alloys; Aluminum; and more. Come and see us, and have a great show!
Booth No. 1025
Anchor Abrasives
Anchor Abrasives has been analyzing disc-grinding operations and formulating discs since the early 1950’s. Today, we are leaders in state-of-the-art formulation and manufacturing of double discs, cylinders, centerless and roll wheels. Anchor grinding wheels are sold to many of the best known manufacturing names in the world. Anchor’s products grind a variety of bearings, springs, ceramics, cutlery, hand tools, bars, tubing and automotive parts including connecting rods, valve plates, piston rings, and pump parts.
Booth No. 0627
Bennett Mahler/NIMSCO
Bennett Mahler will exhibit some machines from their complete range of spring end grinding machines covering wire sizes from 0.2mm up to 30mm. A new Bennett Maxicoil MC-25, the largest machine in the range of servo driven Bennett Maxicoil machines, will be exhibited for the first time at Spring World 2008.
Booth No. 0905
CASMI
Spring World 2008 is sponsored by spring manufacturers for spring manufacturers. Still the only spring industry event, CASMI’s Spring World is the premier marketplace for the industry’s leading suppliers. The show features all products essential to quality custom spring manufacturing, including: Active demonstrations; Coiling, bending, wireforming, fourslide equipment and tooling; Full range of materials, sizes and alloys; Test equipment and software; Payoffs and turntables. Visit us at springworld.org and at our show booth!
Booth No. 1100
Elgiloy
“Elgiloy®”, a non-corroding watch spring material with an infinite life span, was born after World War II servicemen complained that their watches could not take the punishment of war. Because of its durability, the demand for Elgiloy grew and expanded to aerospace, medical devices, and petrochemical applications. Today Elgiloy produces more than 40 high performance alloys. At our Elgin, Illinois facility we are able to serve the small-quantity and R&D requirements of our customer base. We operate our 13” and 8” mills to serve your strip needs. As for our wire and bar customers, we continue to provide a wide array of alloys and sizes!
Booth No. 1132
Emanon Corporation
Emanon produces a range of spring grinding machines, including their exclusive 3 Head THM series for high speed, precision spring grinding. The THM grinder offers the precision of downfeed with the speed of crush grinding.
Booth No. 505
Fenn Technologies
SPX Precision Components, Fenn Division, have been world class worldwide suppliers of quality metal forming equipment and services for over 100 years. Consult our experts about your metal forming application and we will work with you to arrive at the best equipment configuration to meet your exact requirements. We have expertise in the following lines of equipment: Two-High and Four-High Mills - Custom Rolling Mills - Turks Heads - Wire Flattening and Shaping Mills - Swaging Machines - Torin Spring Coilers - Strip and Wire Formers - Wire and Tube Drawing - Rebuilds & Upgrades.
Booth No. 1413
Forming Systems Inc.
FSI will exhibit the latest wire forming, spring making, spring testing, and production accessory equipment from world leading companies such as HTC Spring Machinery, OMAS s.r.l. (3-D wire forming) TBE (3-D wire forming) Whitelegg Machines (wire forming/welding), Jaykase (tabletop wire bending), SAS (spring testing), Emanon Spring Grinders, and HSI ovens and payoff systems.
Booth No. 505
Gibbs Wire
Within the metalworking community, Gibbs is considered to be a worldwide leader in the supply and processing of wire and strip. Our network of service centers, strategically located throughout the U.S. and Canada, and our commitment to technology and innovation, enable us to provide our customer with a level of quality and service well beyond traditional expectations. Since 1956, our company has kept pace with continually changing market conditions, meeting the needs of the growing North American metalworking community for some four decades. We are continuously upgrading and replacing slitting, edging, and oscillating equipment, and adding to our already extensive stocks of wire and strip.
Booth No. 1114
Gibraltar Industries
Gibraltar will display machines from Simco Spring Machinery Company, the major supplier of spring manufacturing machines and peripheral equipment in Taiwan that have enjoyed worldwide distribution for over 20 years. They specialize in:
• CNC Spring Coiler
• CNC Spring Former
• CNC Spring End Grinder
• CNC Wire/Strip Forming Machine
• CNC Tension Spring Machine
• Garter Spring Coiler
• Spring Testing Machine
• Furnace
Booth No. 1313
Haldex Garphyttan
Haldex is a provider of proprietary and innovative solutions to the global vehicle industry. Haldex develops and manufactures advanced spring wire made of various alloys for use in combustion engines and transmissions. The main applications include valve springs, transmission springs, piston rings and springs for fuel injection systems.
Haldex has a leading-edge position in the development and production of advanced valve spring wire that meets the continuingly rigorous demands of the vehicle industry.
Booth No. 1128
HSI-Huei Shang Industrial Co. Ltd. / FSI
HSI will be exhibiting the PC 100 parts collector, the HCF-260 conveyor oven, and the HR-105, HR-205 and HR-1005 payoff reels. HSI will also be there to provide information for their complete line of accessory equipment, including Conveyor Ovens, Box Ovens, Payoff Reels, Part Collectors, and Conveyors.
Booth No. 505
HTC-Hsin Tong Chen Machinery Ltd. / FSI
HTC will be exhibiting the new 2D wireforming machine the 20W along with the 10CF, 28CF, and 60CF four axis spring coilers. HTC will be on hand to provide information and technical data for the new 16 axes 60XU spring and wire forming machine and 8 axes XR series of spring formers. HTC will also introduce their new 2D and 3D wire forming machines.
Booth No. 505
Industrial Steel and Wire Co.
Industrial Steel and Wire is a national leader when it comes to the supply of wire and strip from stock and one of the largest distributors of Spring Wire in the world. Our wires are used mainly for Springs and Wire Forms that are components from
everything from toys to airplanes.
Our products may be broadly
described as: Carbon Steel Wire; Stainless Steel Wire (including Nickel coated wire and High Nickel Alloys); Non-Ferrous Wire; Carbon Steel Strip; Stainless Steel Strip. Wire custom services and Strip services are also available.
Booth No. 0921
Interwire Products
Our huge inventory of more than $24 million worth of high quality ferrous and non-ferrous wire,
special temper wires and spring wire gives us a decided edge in filling even the most difficult wire orders. InterWire is committed to providing the highest quality wire products and services which will exceed all customers requirements. InterWire assures complete customer satisfaction through our state-of-the-art quality management system and “Just-In-Time” delivery scheduling.
Booth No. 0733
IST/NIMSCO
IST and NIMSCO will exhibit their enhanced range of spring testing machines, featuring the new LT2 mark 3 load tester with a working range of either 0.25 – 45 or 0.50 – 112.5 lbf. Its user-friendly computer program and accuracy will be demonstrated. Also on show will be IST’s brand new “Version 8 CAD software” for compression springs featuring significantly improved data presentation, increased materials and design methodologies.
Booth No. 0909
Jaykase Mfg./FSI
Jaykase will exhibit their JK series tabletop programmable CNC wire bending machine which has revolutionized the small order and
prototype development industry. See the latest offerings for these
totally programmable benders for wire up to 1.0 inches in diameter.
Booth No. 505
JN Machinery
With over 4000 ovens operating worldwide, JN has the expertise and experience to handle your stress relieving requirements.
JN’s electric conveyor ovens have mostly been used for heat treatment and stress relieving springs, especially for heat treating stainless steel and carbon steel wire. Another use is with JN’s TRC paint system. However, there are virtually unlimited uses of our conveyor ovens beyond heat treating metal. Our conveyor ovens are also being used for rustproofing, tempering metal, baking, oiling, drying, and sterilization.
Booth No. 1012
Kiswire
Kiswire Group Ltd. will assist springmakers with their spring wire needs, including piano wire, music wire, shaped wire, high-carbon spring wire and oil tempered wire. In addition, the company focuses on product development through joint ventures with automobile, machinery and construction companies. Kiswire also manufactures bead wire, steel cord and hose wire, galvanized steel wire and strand, wire rope, and PC wire and strand.
Booth No. 0721
Link Engineering
Over the past 70 years, Link Engineering has focused on testing products and services, electric motor production systems, and machine tool products. In many instances the company has evolved with the automotive and aerospace industries, developing many of today’s standard testing procedures and apparatuses. LINK has a strong reputation for quality products and services with many technical innovations. Quality and service remain core values of the company.
Booth No. 0821
Maguire Machinery
Maguire Machinery provides outstanding sales and service as the distributor of OKUNO spring, clip, ring and wire forming equipment for the Americas. Maguire will display some of the many products manufactured with Okuno machines at Spring World 2008. Stop by and meet us!
Booth No. 0405
Mapes Piano String Co.
Mapes manufactures phosphate coated music spring wire, missile wire (high tensile), tin coated music spring wire, special hard drawn wire, flat wire - cold rolled, and tin zinc coated music wire.
Booth No. 1324
Mount Joy Wire Corp.
Mount Joy Wire Corporation excels at producing wire for a specific need or unique application, in sizes as fine as .002”. Although there are many characteristics MJW can provide, the end uses are very specific, and generally the wire is custom engineered for those uses. Companies requiring non-commodity type wire are encouraged to provide specifications or other information to MJW for quotation and/or product development.
Booth No. 0924
North American Spring Tool
Tooling both steel and carbide for all the spring making equipment on the market today. A large inventory of coiling points, rolls, guides, quills, arbors and pitch tools is maintained for most of the established machines whether foreign or domestic. We also offer design and engineering assistance.
Booth No. 1015
Norwalk Innovation
Norwalk produces The Un-Coiler™, the original, horizontal flat stock uncoiler that changed the industry - dramatically cutting downtime, improving safety, and boosting productivity. The Un-Coiler’s feeding action is initiated by the pull of the strip material from the production equipment, which activates our patented, “Quick Torque” drive system. The tension remains constant, whether uncoiling a full or almost empty load.
Booth No. 1513
OMAS s.r.l.
OMAS will be exhibiting their FSAB series of ring coiling and welding machines, and they will be on hand with information about their CEB series of multi-axes CNC wire forming machines, and complete line of high speed multi-slide machines.
Booth No. 505
Precision Steel Warehouse
Precision Steel Warehouse Inc. is an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Steel Service Center founded in 1940. The company specializes in flat rolled steel products include: Brass, Phosphor Bronze, Stainless Steel, CR Sheet Steel, CR Strip Steel, High Carbon Annealed Spring Steel, High Carbon Tempered Spring Steel, Electrolytic Tin Coated Steel, Electro-Galvanized Sheet Steel, Long Terne Steel, Aluminized Sheet Steel,Galvannealed Sheet Steel, Martinsite and 4130 Alloy Strip Steel.
Custom processing includes: slitting, edging, cut-to-length, blanking, oscillated coils and special packaging.
Booth No. 1113
Proto Manufacturing
Proto Mfg. Inc. specializes in the development, manufacture and sales of x-ray diffraction instrumentation and related testing services. With the successful development of an 18 kg portable device, automated residual stress mapping, simultaneous residual stress and retained austenite measurement, pioneering field and inline applications, high-speed x-ray diffraction and more, these innovations have placed Proto products and services at the forefront of x-ray diffraction technology worldwide.
Booth No. 0926
Pyromaitre
Over the past 15 years, Pyromaitre has developed a process and equipment to stress relieve spring wire at very HIGH SPEED. Pyro process was approved 7 years ago for automotive valve springs in America and is now well known as the current standard in the spring industry. Pyromaitre offers a complete range of standard and regularly custom design models to accommodate all kinds of different applications.
Booth No. 1325
Raajratna Steel
Raajratna Metal Industries Limited is an ISO 9001 : 2000 accredited stainless steel wire manufacturer. Raajratna has become one of the most reliable source of stainless steel wires, SS bright bars, stainless steel welding wire, stainless steel spring wire, and cold heating wires.
Our stainless steel wire includes Industrial stainless steel wire, SS Tig-Mig wires, Redrawing wires, SS Spring wires, Nail wires, spoke wires, and SS wires for construction.
Booth No. 1429
Radcliff Wire Inc.
Radcliff specializes in flat, square and special shaped wire in steel, stainless steel, copper alloys (including brass, nickel silver, and beryllium copper) and nickel alloys. Round wire in the copper alloys and 300 series stainless. All tempers are available.
Booth No. 1013
RK Trading
RK Trading was founded in 1996 for the purpose of selling and servicing machinery designed specifically for the production of springs, formed wire products and spring end grinders. RK Trading is proud to represent Bobbio SRL in the United States. Located 40 miles north of Milan, Italy, Bobbio is committed to producing technically advanced, high speed, spring coilers. We are also the North American distributor of Herdon, who has over 35 years of experience in making quality machines for the spring and wire forming industry. Today, the company is located in a 250,000 sq. ft. facility in suburban Taipei, Taiwan. Unlike many Taiwanese manufacturers, most key components are made in-house using state-of the art CNC machinery in order to insure the highest possible quality.
Booth No. 0707
SAS-Spring Analysis Systems, Inc. / FSI
SAS will be exhibiting the latest developments in spring testers with the introduction of their newest dual load cell tester, the CTV-2000 vision system and the improved T-20 torsion tester. SAS will be on hand to provide information related to their complete line of automatic spring testing systems, including: Vision inspection and testing for springs, fatigue testers, the new T20 torsion tester with interchangeable torque cells, and spring pitch tracing systems.
Booth No. 505
Shinko Machinery Co. Ltd.
Shinko Machinery of Japan will exhibit its CNC Coiling Machine Model CG-60; Universal Former Model UF-35 & UF-70; and Hybrid Coiler, Model VF-830MFT. Shinko also produces other compression, extension, and torsion machines, along with ring and oval spring coilers.
Booth No. 1213
Simas produces a world class line of spring coiling equipment to satisfy your shaped wire ring needs. Simas has the ability to produce shaped wire rings with notches, angle cutoff, and special shaped ends.
Booth No. 505
Simplex-Rapid/NIMSCO
SIMPLEX-RAPID, Italy, will exhibit the series of CNC machines type MC and MT at Spring World, the latest development in the field of the multi-axis CNC coilers. Thanks to SIMPLEX-RAPID’s “Initial Tension Control Device” (International Patent) it is possible to control and vary, at any desired point of the wire feed, the amount of initial tension in order to increment or decrement it according to the spring requirement.
Booth No. 1005
TBE-T. Butler Engineering Ltd./ FSI
TBE will be introducing their new TBE-30 MULTIBEND twin head, servo controlled wire forming machine. The new TBE-30 Multibend features the following:
• AB control system
• Touch screen interface
• 14 axes capable
• Twin head design
• Twin heads can operate synchronized or independent of each other
• Rotating wire
Booth No. 505
Tool King
Since 1976 we have supplied the Spring Industry with top quality
narrow width flat rolled high carbon and stainless steel in all tempers. Our custom edged products can be provided in both ribbon and oscillate wound coils. With our seven slitting lines and three skiving lines, we can give you the “on time” delivery you need for today’s just-in-time
environment!
Booth No. 1500
Ulbrich
Recent Ulbrich upgrades to our precision rolling mills, slitting and edging equipment enable us to meet or exceed the highest demanding springmaker’s strip specifications. Combining the proper chemistry and our technically proven rolling practices creates more uniform properties and more consistent spring fabrication.
Booth No. 1212
Whitelegg Machines Ltd./FSI
Whitelegg Machines will provide information related to their CFM series of 2-D CNC wire forming and welding machines and ring forming and welding machines. Production product examples include 2-D components, frames, welded frames, rings, welded rings, and headrests.
Booth No. 505
Zapp Precision Strip
As technological leaders, Zapp is familiar with new challenges. We are not only experts in the complex process of cold forming, but also intensively involved in the development of new applications in every industrial and innovative sector.
Our precision and bimetal strips, made in Ergste Westig, far exceed market standards. With them, you will have even highly complex applications firmly under control. The objective is to achieve reliably consistent precision at all times and at the highest level.
Booth No. 1230
Chicago Association of Spring Manufacturers
Simas
