Today manufacturers are more apt to hear "Keanu Reeves" and "Academy Award" in the same sentence than "perfect" and "financially." Finding themselves cash-strapped because of sluggish sales, job shops' customers are proving ever more demanding as they try to keep above water as well. They work for 40 cents an hour! But since other costs accrue getting products back to the U.S.A., it's not always perfect financially." Small World "This China thing has become a great concern in the industry. "The labor rates are as cheap as they are going to get without going to Mexico or China," said Casey Schlachter, national sales manager for press brakes at Mitsubishi subsidiary MC Machinery Systems Inc. And that means exporting work to emerging economies. Moving work overseas might be unpopular among workers, but times being what they are, OEMs are being forced to cut wherever they can to stay afloat. Now, since 2001, we always have stock machines but have had a lot of success selling them." It was very common for us to have very few, if any, stock machines. We have been forced to stock many more machines than we used to. "However, like us, the smaller companies are being challenged by the bigger companies, and the bigger companies are being challenged by overseas fabricators. "I see a lot of activity, a lot of bidding going on," Hays said. Market uncertainty, due in large part to tensions in Iraq, is the most universal problem facing the press brake market, and it has spawned all sorts of other challenges, according to Vance Hays, vice president of Standard Industrial Corp. Everyone wonders why the recession is hanging on so long it's because we're not making anything. "It's tough to beat 35 cents an hour, 25 cents an hour, whatever they're paying those people. "Everything went to China," said Brown, president of FTB & Son. His job shop, which serves the electronics industry and other markets, employed 76 people three years ago. Most of that production has gone overseas-the word is China." "Lots of those companies are flat-out gone. "When the IT bubble burst, it wiped out a big segment of the fabricators involved in that," said Nick Bach, product manager for Amada America's Bending Division. Now the job shops that supported the telecom run-up are hurting even for bit parts-if they're around at all. telecom industry bolted for the exits and didn't stop until it got to Beijing.
The Edge is manufactured in select tonnage ranges and is available with the Accurpress Premium backgauge as well as additional specific options such as integrated crowning and hydraulic bed and ram tool clamping. This press brake is suited for the precision market looking for Y1/Y2 technology with affordability.
The Accurpress Edge is engineered with finesse and to the demanding standards of all Accurpress products.
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