Coe Press Equipment has announced the appointment of Ron Pszenyczny a regional sales manager responsible for the Northeast and northern Southeast regions of the United States. He will be responsible for sales development and for supervising Coe Press distributors in his territory, keeping them appraised of new equipment and service offerings, working with them on pricing, and visiting customer sites.  

Pszenyczny has over 30 years of industrial sales experience including that of independent business owner, manufacturer’s rep, and distributor as well as regional sales manager positions where he was responsible for building the distributor sales network. Most recently, he was a sales engineer for dp Technologies Group/dp Brown of Saginaw.  

Pszenyczny is a master electrician and has significant training in AC/DC drives across multiple manufacturers. He lives in Sterling Heights, Mich.

COE Press Equipment has announced the installation of its “Fineblanking Edition” HD straightener, coil reel with HD hold-down arm, and “alligator” style peeler threader at Hoerbiger Fineblanking (Waterloo, Ontario), a manufacturer of components and systems for gear shifting and declutching drive trains for passenger cars, trucks, and offroad vehicles. COE’s Fineblanking Edition straighteners provide the necessary roll force delivery and rigidity required to achieve the flatness and tolerance required for producing near net shape blanked parts.   
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In addition to the COE 5-in. x 36-in. Fineblanking Edition power straightener, the equipment includes a COE 36-in. x 30-in. threading table offering hands-free threading capability, and a 20,000-lb. x 36-in. coil reel with coil clock spring guard including a motorized endwheel for effective coil containment.  It also features centralized controls for the straightener and feeder.

The equipment is capable of processing high strength steels up to 110,000 PSI yield at thicknesses from 0.078-in. to .630-in depending upon the width of the material. It can achieve a payoff rate up to 80 FPM. 

This is the largest fineblanking equipment to date that COE has shipped and its third installation for  Canadian fineblanking companies. COE also provided installation, startup and training assistance.