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DE-STA-CO celebrates 85th anniversary.


DE-STA-CO Industries, the world's leading manufacturer of manual, pneumatic, and hydraulic actuated clamps, celebrates its 85th anniversary during 2000.

Since the Madison Heights Madison Heights, city (1990 pop. 32,196), Oakland co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit; inc. 1955. With the decline of the regional auto industry, the city has become a technology center for companies from a number of industries. , MI-based manufacturer patented its first toggle To alternate back and forth between two states.

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 clamp in 1936, DE-STA-CO has grown to become a global presence. Today, the company manufacturers on four continents: North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , South America, Europe, and Asia. Additionally, DE-STA-CO maintains sales offices in Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, and Spain.

DE-STA-CO's current family of products includes:

* Industrial products group, featuring more than 500 standard manual, pneumatic, and hydraulic clamping products.

* Automation group, which provides power clamps and cylinders, grippers, lifts and shuttles, pivot units, and robotic end-of-arm tooling.

* Robohand Inc, whuch supplies sophisticated grippers, lifts, slides and thrusters, rotary actuators, feed escapements, robotic tool-changers, and end effectors.

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 Systems extends the company's range of robotic tooling applications by offering advanced water saver monitoring devices, tool changer Changer

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 applications, and enhanced end effector systems.
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Date:Jun 1, 2000
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