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About the Company

Asma, LLC began with the publication of Introduction to Precision Press Brake. Only to be followed by Intermediate and Advanced Precision Press Brake. Since then the Author and CEO of Asma, LLC, Steven D. Benson has authored four more textbooks on the subjects of Press Brakes, Lasers, Turret Punches and Shears, written software ASMA 5.0 for developing correct bending calculations and finding the tooling that will produce the desired results.

Asma also offers over 27 educational DVD's, 16 narrated PowerPoint's and two different Interactive textbooks on precision sheet metal trade!

Mr. Benson has also published 63 articles worldwide for The Fabricator, Forming and Fabricating, and The International Sheet Metal Review

Asma, LLC began bringing in-house Press Brake, Turret Punch and Laser training to its customers in 1997, including the United States Navy, Army, Lincoln Electric, Greenheck Fan and the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Int., Inc. (FMA).

Asma, LLC is also the publisher of The Precision Sheet Metal Chronicle, the world's first on-line magazine dedicated to the precision sheet metal trade.

In 2007 Asma expanded we into the "micro" sheet metal
proto-typing realm with the installation of an 8-ton Toyokoki electric press brake; specifically to provide forming on an extremely small scale. Materials under .032 and with tolerances of +/- .001 thousandth of an inch! From Photo-etch to finish.

 

President and CEO of Asma LLC Mr. Benson has over 35-years in the trade and is the Author of Press Brake Technology a guide to precision sheet metal bending published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).