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According to a recent academic
paper, titled “The China Toll”, the
United States lost more than 2.7
million jobs to China in the years
between 2001 and 2011. Haven
Manufacturing, the well-known
Georgia based manufacturer of ma-
chinery and equipment for tube
and bar processing, is doing their
part to fight the trend of continued
American job and manufacturing
loss to Asia.
Last year Oddello Industries, a Ten-
nessee based manufacturer of high
quality metal, tube, pipe, compos-
ite, and MDF components for OEMs
in a variety of industries, purchased
a dual-blade cutoff machine from
Haven as part of the development
of a process to manufacture several
individual parts from 1” square tube
to be packaged, along with a vari-
ety of sheet-metal stampings, into
high quality adjustable mattress
foundations. The state of Tennes-
see alone has lost well over 56,000
manufacturing jobs, more than 2%
of the state’s total employment, to
China based companies in the past
decade. Oddello, by partnering
with proven America based equip-
ment suppliers like Haven Manufac-
turing, has shown itself to be able
to compete for, and win, business
back from China based manufac-
turing concerns. Oddello’s capable
engineering staff partnered with
Haven’s engineers to develop a
fully programmable process which
couples a piercer, designed and
manufactured by Criterion Machin-
ery, with a Haven Servo Dual-Blade
Shear Cutoff machine. The resulting
process has proven able to process
nearly 15 miles of tube per day in-
to 38 unique parts (SKUs) within
length tolerances that never ex-
ceed 0.0015 inch.
The Oddello-Haven collaboration
has proven so successful that Odd-
ello’s management recently decided
to expand the tube stamping and
cutting operation. Not only is this
great news for the company and
its employees, but it is great news
for the people and community of
Morristown. The additional jobs
and income provided by the expan-
sion will undoubtedly improve the
quality of life for many people in
the region. The original Haven cut-
off machine has proven so reliable
and efficient that the company has
ordered an additional Haven Model
873 Servo Dual-Blade Shear Tube
Recut Machine to handle increased
demand from both new customers
and the customer for which this
process was originally designed.
The Haven 873 is capable of cutting
tube from square or round stock, in
lengths from 2” up to 120” and em-
ploys a programmable closed-loop
servo drive to assure accuracy.
Haven customers have learned to
expect the same robust steel con-
struction, ease of operation and
quick-change features that Haven
has become well known for in their
entire line of cutoff machines
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ITAtube Journal No2/September 2013
Companies
Haven manufacturing helps keep
manufacturing jobs in America
Haven manufacturing – USA
Haven Model 873 Servo Dual-Blade
Shear Tube Recut Machine
Haven Manufacturing Corp.
370 Sterling Industrial Park
Brunswick GA 31525 USA
Tel.: +1 912 265 7536
Fax: +1 912 264 9001
