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In the early 80’s, Tie Down became one of the first manufacturers in the Southeast to incorporate
robotic welding. Early 90’s brought CNC sheet laser cutting permitting the growth of products no longer
dependent on the older legacy manufacturing methods that traditionally required great expense in both
hard tooling and higher volume run requirements from coiled steel.
CNC laser cutting also allowed much greater freedom in engineering design as the shapes and profiles
being produced in CAD were no longer constrained to hard tooling. Tie Down was also an early adopter
of 3D modeling as well as FEA analysis when such tools were still in their infancy.
At the start of the new millennium and upon taking the lessons learned from both manufacturing and
engineering growth, Tie Down again expanded its capabilities and became one of the first firms in North
America to incorporate Laser Tube cutting.
In 2009, the first tube laser in the Western Hemisphere incorporating a fiber laser power source was
commissioned. 2012 came the implementation of the first high powered fiber laser in a sheet cutting
platform with the introduction of a 5,000 watt fiber laser and most recently in 2017, an 8000 watt fiber
laser.
Coupled with cutting capabilities are our vast metal forming and robotic welding assets have also kept
pace with our growth in tube, plate, and sheet cutting. In 2016, the first and only high capacity bi-
directional folding machine in all of North America was commissioned offering another unique ability to
form sheet metal.