"Survivor" Theme Shines Spotlight on
Finn-Power Product Line at FABTECH

C5 Turret Punch Press Makes North American Debut

Finn-Power International's booth at FABTECH 2003, held in Chicago's McCormick Place on November 16-19, created a "rumble in the jungle" and had curious visitors filling the aisles to catch the action.

The Finn-Power booth was designed to bring the company's Survivor ad to life. It accomplished this by creating a jungle environment, complete with tropical trees and vegetation, bamboo paneling, tropical birds, animal images and sounds, recorded music, a live conga drum solo, and both live and videotaped presentations. Approximately every 15 minutes, a live show demonstrated how Finn-Power machines, cells, and systems can not only help fabricators survive, but prosper in any market condition. The net result was hundreds of enthusiastic visitors to the Finn-Power booth during the four-day show.

FABTECH 2003 was the forum for the North American introduction of the Finn-Power C5 hydraulic turret punch press.

The booth also turned a lot of heads by being the forum for the North American debut of Finn-Power's latest "survivor" tool - the C5 hydraulic turret punch press.

"FABTECH 2003 was extremely successful for Finn-Power," says president Mikko Lindström. "Sometimes you must 'think outside the jungle' to communicate with your market. We sold numerous machines & cells and hope that this is a precursor to better days ahead for the entire fabricating industry."

The Finn-Power FABTECH "Survivor" Team   The Finn-Power FABTECH "Survivor" Team included (from left to right): Tiina Alanko, production assistant; Shawn Payton, video/sound/lighting technician; presenters Shelly Lawler and Heidi Miller; Frank Bowman, Impact Creative Group director & conga player; Bob Kolcz, writer/producer.

Two other important team members spent most of the show at the Finn-Power "base camp." Darrell Baker, applications engineer (left photo) teamed up with Shelly through the magic of Finn-Powervision to present the company's latest developments in laser and bending technologies. Geoff Earl, service engineer (right photo) was paired with Heidi to inform the visitors on the features and benefits of the Finn-Power turret punch press and flexible manufacturing technology.

Shelly Lawler explains the C5's efficient unloading to freely programmable positions on the table. Contrary to a rumor circulating during FABTECH, "grass skirting" for the table is not an option on the new C5 turret punch press!	Heidi Miller demonstrates the indexable upforming that is available only on the Finn-Power C5 turret punch press. Complex forming operations can be made quickly by using only a single forming tool.

Conga player Frank Bowman is known to march to a different drummer and often had to be coaxed off stage to allow the product  presentation to begin.

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  Volume 13 Issue 2 - December 2003
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