December 4, 2007

New Equipment Starts to Arrive

As the year long renovation of the South Charleston, West Virginia stamping facility starts to wind down and the start of production readiness nears, CSM is seeing the long lead-time equipment arrive. In the past few weeks, the Atlas Die Cart System has been installed on the # 4 (156") line and new Rockwell press controls are installed and programmed on 4 of the 6 lines. The new Ingersoll-Rand compressors are installed and just this last week, the CSM buy off team traveled to ABB's Brampton, Ontario facility to sign off on the build and performance of our 47 press tending robots that are to be delivered in the next week.

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New press tending robots during buy off at ABB and destined for one of two 180" press lines at CSM.
Atlas Automation die carts installed on the 156" press line at CSM.	New Ingersoll Rand high efficient air (1500 cfm) compressors replace the older less efficient units.
New Rockwell controls on 4 of 6 press lines enhance operation and monitoring.

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Billie Honaker
Purchasing Manager
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