They are called Exitenter, Ache77, Nian, they are just some of the many street artists – more or less good and more or less famous – that adorn the walls of cities with their drawings, in the wake of a myth like Bansky. Usually choosing desolate and decadent corners, often the tubes fall into their works: on a tube a fox clings, from a tube a flower is born, a tube frames a portrait …
The chronicle reports two cases of arrests due to the production and possession of clandestine weapons “homemade” with tubes.
The Carabinieri of Gela, in Sicily, have arrested two people for having found, hidden in their property, some tubes that individually appear to be simple metal pieces, but which, once assembled, are firearms of rapid use and easy concealment. At the end of the operations a complete caliber 36 weapon was placed under seizure with other adaptable tubes of different caliber, numerous metal tubes of the same features for the manufacture of further weapons, as well as sixty cartridges of various caliber.
An operation by the Avola State Police has instead led to the arrest of a man, intercepted on a stolen car, in possession of a craft gun, composed of several disassembled parts: a castle consisting of a cylindrical pipe half an inch with a striker, with a threaded part on which a piece of iron of 25 cm or another of more than half a meter could be screwed for use as a rod. At the home of the arrested person, in addition to various ammunition, there was a small artisan workshop for assembling DIY weapons. Dulcis in fundo, the police also seized an umbrella to make it look like a gun barrel.
A broken pipe risked blowing up the match between Lorenzo Sonego (67th Atp) and Russian Karen Khachanov (13th Atp) of the Internazionali at Foro Italico. The sudden break of a pipe used to water the field flooded, within a few minutes, a small part of the field of the Grand Stand Arena. Fortunately, the timely intervention of the employees interrupted the flow of water and dried the mud by spreading a little red soil. The match was smooth and Khachanov eventually won.
Cecimo, for the European elections, proposed his Manifesto to the Heads of State and Government, with ten key recommendations when defining the future European Union industrial policy and setting the European Union’s annual and multiannual priorities. Cecimo represents globally the common position of European Machine Tool Industries and related Manufacturing Technologies, and promotes co-operation with other organisations worldwide. Cecimo encourages research and innovation driven by the present and future needs of the market. Cecimo contributes to shaping EU research and innovation policies. It is also involved in many EU-funded projects and encourages enterprises in participating to National and European programmes.
This is ten key Cecimo recommendations to the Heads of State and Government and the candidates for the 2019 European Elections and the future European Commission: Place industry at the top of the political agenda of the European Parliament and the European Commission during the next institutional cycle (2019-2024) and appoint a European Commission Vice-President for industry; Continue the progress in the Digital Single Market Agenda and develop an industrial policy for the digital era – by improving digital infrastructures, building trust in data, enabling automation and removing difficult for digitisation; Guarantee the necessary funding and policy support for strategic value chains and innovative technologies in the next European Union budget to accelerate the ongoing industrial transformation – by investing in research, innovation, skills and digital capacity development programmes together with tax incentives and other financial instruments; Promote reciprocity with trading partners and put forward a more assertive European Union trade agenda, especially vis-à-vis China and the United States; Bridge the skills gap in the fields of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing, industry 4.0 and digitisation; and maximise their benefits for businesses by fostering strategies and initiatives linked to research activities, test beds, European Union & national investment projects and industrial competences; Remain in the driver’s seat for standardisation and improve the process for the development and referencing of European and international standards for the manufacturing sector; Ensure the protection of European Intellectual Property Rights trade secrets, confidential industrial design and data sets at European and international level; Be cautious when considering the need to revise European Union legislation for example in the case of the Machinery Directive, to avoid regulating new technologies too early and stifling innovation; Safeguard industrial investments and provide legal certainty by promoting evidence-based policymaking and ensuring that future legislation is future-proof and technology neutral in vital areas for the European Union industrial competitiveness, such as transport Co2 emissions; Simplify further the Posting of Workers Directive regarding the obligations of the Directive for Smes, particularly, for short-term technical assistance activities. The freedom of movement and services across Europe should be facilitated and guaranteed.
Since more then 40 years Omp is specialized in production of cutting machine for tube and profile, also our complete range of Fiber Laser machine is well known in the national and international market.
The advantages to use a Tube Laser machine are multiple.
The laser technology increase the possibility to set up and project of tubes and profile cut because it can be adapted to the specific needings of each customer, with the guarantee of a very low energy consumption and excellente cutting quality.
Why choose Omp Laser Tube?
For sure first reason is because of flexibility of the company, which assure different loading, cutting and unloading solution, always update and tailor made.
The continuous update with latest technologies on the market: the world of laser is moving fast, we think is very important to keep pace.
We have a quick service for assistance: our customer needs to be able to rely on a fast interface with the operator for any kind of questions.
A young and dynamic staff, reliable and able to follow our customer at 360°: the proof is the installation of more then 4000 machines all around the world, Omp always find a solution for the complete satisfaction of our customers.
In recent months, Omp has been present at Metalshow & Tib in Romania at Expo Mafe in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where it presented the tube laser line and the traditional choice of cutting-off machines and for finishing and packing the tube. Today, in Omp, information technology plays a primary role in the design of solutions and in post-sales. But what makes the company unique is creativity.
