You might not think that there was much of a connection between liquid oxygen and sheet metal; but for Air Products at Wrexham, sheet metal components are a vital part of the distillation columns it makes to separate liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon from liquid air. These plants can produce up to 3000 tonnes of liquid oxygen a day and some of the bigger ones are 60m long by 6m diameter.
The company decided recently to improve its manufacturing efficiency by replacing an old turret press with a TRUMPF TC3000.
"We particularly need the accuracy and consistency which we feel the TRUMPF TC3000 will supply", says Clive Chalk of Air Products. "We looked at a number of options and felt that the TRUMPF TC3000 gave us the best accuracy, speed, efficiency, power consumption and ease of tooling change".
Air Products particularly liked the fact that the TRUMPF machine has positive stripping that does not rely on springs in the tooling, and the fact that all the tools can rotate to give more flexibility in the programming of parts. | 
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