AWS EVENTS & INFORMATION
American Welding society
Peoria Chapter
October 2003 Meeting
On Wednesday Oct 15 the Peoria Section
toured the facilities of Columbus Industries Inc. located
at Fairview, Illinois. Columbus Industries has 25,000
square feet of shop space with 16 acres of outside storage
and six 23 by 25 foot high shop doors. Columbus Industries
is known for high quality fabrication, welding, cutting
and machining products and services. Besides fabrication
of structural supports, hand rails, fence, machine parts,
cutting, punching and jigs and fixtures Columbus Industries
has started to produce the Coot2 a heavy duty all terrain
utility vehicle. Our members were given a demonstration
of the Coot2 at the start of the tour, before it got
dark outside.
Inside the facility we would shown the two robotic welders they own and given a demonstration of the water jet. The water jet will cut flat parts from metal, plastic, glass, ceramic and composites with a +/- .003 accuracy. The AWS letters were cut out that night to demonstrate how the machine works. Besides the regular AWS members we had several of the area high school students attend.
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