Hamond Industries Ltd - the Slide Forming Specialists
The internet is very much like that granddaddy of all computer games, Adventure - full of twisty little passages, all different. Here are some twisty little passages you can head down and see where you end up.
Associations & Trade Publications
Precision Metalforming Association (PMA)
Metalforming Magazine and an archive of old issues (only selected articles appear online)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition (CITAC)
Sourcing Sources
The PMA
Buyers Guide (now called MakeItMetal) to search by industry, region, etc
Sometimes people come to us thinking we are spring coilers or straight stampers. We aren't and we don't have the equipment to help you. The people on these lists are members of the same professional association and may have the equipment needed to make the parts you're looking for.
Other sourcing resources
Steel Resources
A set of articles called, amusingly, Engineer on a disk includes How To Make Steel
How Stuff Works article on Iron and Steel
General Web Resources
metals.about.com's weekly Spotlight on Metals
Weekly Metal Prices from metalprices.com
