Marlin Steel Blog

The latest manufacturing trends and news for wire baskets, wire forming, wire racks, carts, metal bracket, sheet metal, and more.

What is the Hardest Shape in Wireforming?

Wire forms with compound bends typically are the most challenging. A compound bend is a feature within the wire form that has two adjacent bends or generations with no straight length tangent to the beginning and end of those radii.

What a Safe Workplace says about the Quality of its Work

From Drew Greenblatt's latest column on Inc.com

The ultrasonic cleaning challenge

The client, a major manufacturer of metal fabricating equipment, needed baskets for ultrasonic cleaning. Among the issues: they wanted a basket with the durability of steel but without metal-to-metal contact with sensitive parts that could scratch.

Manufacturing and the Opportunity Cost of Excess Regulation

From Drew Greenblatt's latest column

Safety First: 1,700 straight days accident-free

We crossed the 1,700-day mark for consecutive days without a lost time accident this week. Among the folks pleased by that milestone: Our insurance

How we make baskets for precision cleaning systems

Good luck to an engineering paratrooper

Kash Alur is a manufacturing engineer at Marlin Steel. Or as Marlin Steel President Drew Greenblatt likes to describe him, "manufacturing engineer rock star."

How to land a sale?

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