Estes’ New Salvagnini L5 Laser in Action
Check out the Salvagnini L5 Fiber Optic Laser cutting .048” Carbon Steel at 1,251 inches per minute.
Estes Adds New Equipment
At Estes, we strive to proactively and constantly monitor our equipment and standards to better serve our customers, which is why we’re excited to announce we’ve just made some major machinery investments. Although our existing equipment is up-to-date and running smoothly, we recently acquired some new machinery. The most influential machine we’re bringing to our…
Innovations and Collaboration in Manufacturing for the Medical Industry
At Estes, we offer a variety of services including traditional metal fabrication services, 3D laser welding, and rapid prototyping. Although we manufacture products for a variety of industries, we want to highlight our work in medical device manufacturing. One of our recent projects involved us helping a client streamline the production of a steel pan.…
Getting to Know 3D Laser Welding
We here at Estes Design & Manufacturing are pretty excited about the possibilities and advantages opened up by 3D laser welding, and many of our customers have already gotten to find out why. Today, we’re going to share a little bit of background on 3D laser welding: the process itself, as well as some of…
Estes’ Approach to Customer Service and Collaboration
Estes’ Approach: Customer Service and Collaboration Since its inception in 1976, Estes Design and Manufacturing has provided customized and rapid fabrication for sheet metal parts and products, a priority which remains today. Thirty six years ago, our 2-employee operation anticipated the need for high quality, technologically advanced sheet metal fabrication service, but now with 80…
Estes Presents at National Steel Seminar
Jay Reddick, Laser Welding Manager for Estes Design and Manufacturing, was invited and presented as part of the ALWA panel held during the Great Designs in Steel (www.autosteel.org) seminar in Detroit, MI. His presentation, entitled “Creating Cosmetic Welds in Light Gauge Sheet Metal” was focused on educating the seminar attendees on the applications of 3D,…
Estes Adds New Technology
Estes is pleased to announce it has added a new piece of equipment, a Timesavers model 2211-05-9 Multi-Directional Rotary Brush Machine to its long list of in-house state of the art technology. More advanced than traditional deburring equipment, this new technology uniformly finishes edges of laser cut and punched parts in one pass, while improving…