IMPERIAL-Newton Corporation
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Tools Manufacturing |
| Founded 📆 | 2002 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | Centennial, Colorado, U.S.. |
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| Products 📟 | impact sockets, wrenches |
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| 🌐 Website | www.imperial-newton.com |
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IMPERIAL-Newton Corporation is an American company that manufactures custom and specialized impact sockets, socket wrench and other large bolt equipment utilized for large heavy industrial applications.[1]
History[edit]
IMPERIAL-Newton Corporation was founded in 2002 in Southern California in response to the need for professionally made custom and specialty impact sockets and wrenches for governmental agencies, aerospace and large equipment manufacturers seeking tools based on international consensus standards, rather than homemade welded up scraps of metal and guesswork. In 2009 the company relocated its headquarters to the State of Colorado, transferring nearly all operations to the greater Denver, CO metro area. The company selected the Denver Technological Center (DTC) region of Colorado as its headquarters. Operational benefits and tax incentives, combined with the climate, improved cost of living, and generally active lifestyle it offers employees made it an attractive headquarters choice over other areas.[1]
According to several sources, such a move is a step in the right direction given that manufacturing in the U.S. is rebounding to be as resilient and robust as ever. To continue manufacturing's success in the U.S., a company ought to seek to create a business environment which facilitates growth and competitiveness on a global stage.[2] Such was the reasoning behind IMPERIAL-Newton’s relocation to Colorado, a move conceivably validated by the recent move towards steps to revitalize manufacturing in the United States.
Innovations[edit]
Unique Sizes, Shapes, Lengths and Styles[edit]
IMPERIAL-Newton is notable for commercially manufacturing the largest size impact sockets of any brand, some weighing in excess of 450 lbs each, and fitting hexagonal nut sizes measuring 14-1/4" (355mm) and greater. In addition, their total catalog range comprises the largest scope of sizes, depths and styles of any maker. The IMPERIAL-Newton public web site catalog includes over 480,000 discrete sockets and wrenches, making it the single largest product range of sockets/wrenches available from any professional tool manufacturer. To facilitate proper torquing of extremely large fasteners requiring torque loads above 150,000 Ft-lb (203,000 Nm Newton metre), IMPERIAL-Newton developed and manufactured a proprietary 4-1/2" square drive, based upon the principles of ASME and ANSI specifications; The same consensus standards used by the majority of major U.S. tool manufacturers in producing all common square drive types. The introduction of this new drive size provided a unique standards-based design for an unusual category of extremely large fasteners, where none existed prior. Given the safety considerations of working with such extreme loads, a standards derived solution is preferable over unproven concepts, and the introduction of a commercially available option for this purpose is notable in that it provides a means of applying such high loads, in conjunction with applicable policies and/or regulations.
Safety Policies & Path for Compliance[edit]
Within the commercial hand tool industry, IMPERIAL-Newton transformed previously unavailable sizes and lengths into readily available standard products; thus eliminating the need of industrial operations like mining and large scale power generation facilities to create homemade tools by cutting up and welding together pieces of sockets and pipe in order to obtain the length or size needed. By making such products commercially available, and based on applicable ASME B107 specifications, this provided a path for compliance with worker safety regulations which was previously unavailable in these instances, yet prescribed by employer safety policies and regulations from OSHA, CCOHS (CANOSH), and theMine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) which either discourage or directly prohibit employers from modifying purchased tools or fabricating homemade tools.[3]
ANSI B107 specifications prescribe the most common sizes and shapes of commonly used impact sockets, in specific depths, drives, and shapes. Anything outside of this relatively short list of standard sizes was virtually unavailable without customizing or self-fabrication. Prior to the introduction of thousands of new stock sizes by IMPERIAL-Newton, there were no readily available stock products for large industrial size socket applications requiring non-standard shapes or depths, or unusual drive size combinations such as larger sockets with small square drives and vice versus. Thus, a notable expansion of safety compliance for industrial organizations was facilitated by the introduction of over 350,000 previously unavailable sizes, styles, depths and shapes of commercially manufactured specialty/custom sockets and wrenches in accordance with applicable industry specifications and guidelines. Once available, such products could now be purchased from a professional tool manufacturer in compliance with policies, rather than fabricated by workers in the field using crude methods and materials. Homemade tools are often dangerously constructed using unsound methods, dissimilar metals of uneven or inadequate hardness, with no formal quality checks or consensus design standards applied of any kind; the results are often disastrous, with worker injuries or near miss incidents resulting from this unsafe practice.[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "O.C. manufacturer moves to Colorado", The Orange County Register, August 21, 2013.
- ↑ Byan Iams, "What US manufacturing needs to succeed", CBNC,.
- ↑ OSHA, "Hand Tool Safety", Occupational Safety and Health Administration,.
- ↑ "Homemade tool fails, contributes to a lost time accident.", BCforestsafe.org, June 11, 2010.
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