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The North American Copper Awards has recognized Zahner's copper metal-work for the Waipolu Gallery in Oahu, Hawaii. Waipolu Gallery and Studio in Hawaii

Zahner completed the New Academic Building at Cooper Union in New York City. See the time-lapse construction video at Videos & Downloads.

President and CEO Bill Zahner is featured in the August Issue of Wired Magazine, where he has now been dubbed, the "Alpha Geek" of Metal. Read Article

Alpha Geek Bill Zahner holding Metal Sheets

The NASCAR Hall of Fame project reached 1,000,000 man-hours without a "lost-time" accident milestone recently. In recognition for Zahner's achievement TBEKD presented a plaque to Zahner
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Bill Zahner named an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects.

Introducing the Hands of the Artist™ division, where Zahner engineers and craftsmen produce projects for artists.
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Press Room

Turret-Press Tools Create Works of Art
published: December 14, 2009

Special tooling allows A. Zahner Co. to create custom panels that clad some of the most famous museums and art house in North America.

The Fabricating / Manufacturing Division of A. Zahner Co., Kansas City, MO., and its 250 employees occupy of facilities in Kansas City, and Texas to produce custom architectural panels used throughout the country for clients as varied as museums and airports - including 14 miles of roofing for the Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport.

The Kansas City fabrication shop, filling three buildings, boast turret punch presses, press breaks, a waterjet cutter and CNC routers to cut and shape material from 0.010 to 6 inches thick. Materials include stainless steel, copper, brass, aluminum and zinc alloys, with some material precolored. No production work here, as all jobs are custom, and usually each panel in a job - with jobs typically consisting of thousands of panels - is unique.

Obviously, exterior architecturalproducts demand blemish-free surfaces, so A. Zahner must be careful to avoid marring costly material during production. That is the main reason why the company, according to Scott Hidy, A. Zahner production manager, began about 12 years ago purchasing Wilson Wheel turret-press tooling from Wilson Tool International, White Bear Lake, MN. The Wilson Wheel line includes the Rolling Shear, Rolling Rib, Rolling Offset and Rolling Pincher. The tools provide high-speed production of slits, ribs and offsets on a range of materials, according to Wilson Tool officials, and produce no burrs or nibble marks.

Article by Louis A. Kren

Metal Forming Magazine

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