Saving your hands

Do you or any of your employees handle sharp items?? Or do you have extensive hand injuries due to cuts and punctures?

Well at Bi-Metal Industrial Products Inc., we can help you, with anti-cut Black Nitrile Coated Gloves which are very cut resistant. Our band saw blades are very sharp, as we remove them from our blade boxes.  Our employees love them, as it has decreased their hand injuries extremely.

At one time we were using, good quality leather palmed gloves. There were times they would last only a day or two. Now with these anti-cut gloves we are well into the 4 to 6 week area. That’s great as we are saving money too in both aspects from band aid or first aid supplies to the leather glove pricing plus down time.

Feature Items

Today we introduce a new way of communicating products we represent to our blog. Probably most of our customers may have had seen this feature before when our sales people have gone around to visit our cliental. But we can’t see everyone so we thought that this is another medium.

We bring forward our carbide burs and sets from Champion Cutting Tools.

Burs are used in many construction shops, metal working shops, to remove welds, finish casting flaws, enlarge or dig out holes, etc. They are one of the most used tools.

Champion Carbide burs are the best of the best, in TIN coated or uncoated. The TIN coated burs are manufactured for the people who use a lot of these for extensive long periods of time. They stay cooler, sharper for a longer period of time due to the TIN coating. This creates less down time changing burs out, allowing faster completion of the job at hand.

Full Speed Ahead

On the first of November we added a new face to the Bi-Metal team. His name is Mark. His back ground is one out of the insurance industry. Interesting that a person would pick Bi-Metal Industrial Products over staying in the field they are from. It’s always good to have a new and fresh person around with a different perspective on things.

Then January came along and we added another fresh face to the lineup. His name is Frank. His back ground is the heavy industrial sales side and retail. Great now we have more experience added to our wonderful sales force.

You will meet these two dynamic people as they travel around the Alberta territory meeting with the present and new clientele.

If you need some expert advice on Bi-Metals, products give one of these gentlemen a call or if you wish you may contact our office to have them visit you.

Mark (780 691-0409)

Frank (780 490-8939)

Office (780 440-4002) or toll free (1-888-440-4002)

We are always here ready to serve your industrial needs.

A NEW YEAR BEGINS

Happy New Year! We wish all our loyal readers and clients, happiness and prosperity throughout 2013. Where the heck did 2012 go?  Wow, we were very busy thanks to all of you out there. We thank you, dearly. It’s great to think back to of all the smiling faces we saw during the last year. Our happy customers that keep coming back and the references we had gotten. Our goal this year is to be more helpful with all your needs. We are always striving to do better. So, if any of you have any suggestions or comments, please contact us, at any time on how we can become better at serving your interests. Again THANK YOU and hope to see you soon.

Tuning up your Band Saw Machine

Having problems with your band saw machine? Blades don’t last, like you think they are supposed to? Are they breaking on you? Getting crooked cuts?

Well at Bi-Metal Industrial Products Inc., we can help you, but there is a condition. You need to be using one of our excellent band saw blade products. Our LENOX band saw blades, offer a free service on your machine as long as you are using our product and or have tried 3 of our GTO trials (band saw blade trial). The free service consists of approximately 2 hours of a LENOX trained band saw machine technician to look over your machine. They check the overall health of your machine and comes with a comprehensive report on the condition of it. They also (if they can) tweak your machine for optimum blade performance. They are the only band saw blade company to offers this service. We want to keep you happy with our excellent products. Call us, if you want to get on board. For more info on LENOX see http://www.lenoxtools.com/pages/Category.aspx?category=BAND+SAW+BLADES

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the crew at Bi-Metal.

Oh Where or Where did Summer Go??????

Winter is upon us again. It just seemed like a short summer as everyone except the machine shops were very busy.

We at Bi-Metal have been busy ourselves, aligning with big warehouses so we can offer more products to our loyal customers. It was a good move as we have had some good sales but it hasn’t been as much as we thought.

We know it takes time for people to realize that donuts don’t make the order. Sure we deliver most items at lightning speed also but we take the time to make sure when you receive the items that they are correct and to check if there are any other items that might be required. We give this personal service to each and every client. Sometimes it is a thankless job doing the deliveries as people that wanted to meet with someone from our institution and we arrive there and the personnel reneges on seeing us. Oh well their loss.

It’s another season as we can tell. When in the mail, over the fax and emails we get requests from clients and some none clients to contribute to seasonal functions for their employees???? Think about it, businesses, asking for freebees. Hahhhhh????? We give to charities, when the time is right to the less fortunate. We look after our own employees. That is what businesses do. Not have someone else look after their most valued people. Enough said thanks for tuning in.

Computers Good and Bad

We must say computers are the accountant’s best friend. We like them too, when these things work right.

The other day one machine all of a sudden came up with a warning that anti-virus program is out of date. Wow, this was on our main machine we use as our server. We do all our IT work ourselves so the investigation began. Were we connected right, was it us or our internet provider, etc. Well a half hour went by and still no clue. We decided to phone the internet provider. After hanging on the telephone line for 40 minutes yup it was them. Nice. They had decided that they were changing their virus provider. No email to us or any other warning was given. Well then, more fun came. We had to go to site to download new software. Well I don’t understand how these programmers can’t make it simple. We press the download button. Why all the questions? Do you want it here? Do you want to continue? and so on. Then they give you a registration # that is 30 digits long, 30 digits????  Why???? So you have to write this down in case something goes wrong. So you press the continue button again. The program now it checks if it is compatible to your machine, is your machine certified, etc. again the long wait. By this time it’s been almost 2 hours since we started. Finally it says it ready to download new program wonderful. We press continue again. It runs a green line across the screen and all of a sudden it says you have to restart the machine. Okay we are thinking we are going to be done. NOT. It does its restart and the machine restarts again. At least the programs have figured out how to restart the computer so you don’t have to push the button. But now you have to reenter passwords, etc. Then another box comes up to continue, oh man. This goes on two more times. Finally it is done. It has been 3 hours total time since we started for this one machine. 3 hours of downtime. Gezzzz but this is still faster than calling a techy. One machine down and 2 more to go, wonderful. Well at least we can run the others at the same time.

Now back to the good the accountants are happy again.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us via email info@bimetalinc.com phone 780-440-4002 or drop on by 5804-82 Avenue Edmonton.