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Shop Management - Page 177
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Capacitor discharge resistance welding emerges as important projection welding option
Capacitor discharge welding delivers a laser welded-like joint without the expense and extensive setup.
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Tricor Metals fabricates support structure for solar probe
- Aug 20, 2018
- News Release
Tricor Metals, a Wooster, Ohio-based supplier of titanium mill products and titanium forgings and a fabricator of ASME code equipment, has fabricated the support structure that was part of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft, launched recently for the sun. The PSP is a NASA mission built and...
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Paradigm Metals to relocate Texas headquarters
- Aug 20, 2018
- News Release
Paradigm Metals Inc. has announced plans to relocate to Hutto, Texas, and expand its operations. The company will bring 250 employees to its new $10 million headquarters and expects to grow to about 400 employees within 10 years. The metal fabricator’s current headquarters in Pflugerville, Texas,...
- From The Fabricator
Uratech opens U.S. location
- Aug 20, 2018
- News Release
Uratech Tooling Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of metal carts in Oakville, Ont., has opened Uratech USA Inc. in Orchard Park, N.Y.
Products include carts for CNC tooling, medical and restaurant use, and camping, as well as CNC workstations, collet racks, and casters.
- From The Fabricator
5 components to an effective kaizen event
- By Jeff Sipes
- Aug 17, 2018
- Article
Continuing his series on a hypothetical fabricator implementing lean, Jeff Sipes digs deep into the kaizen event, including what happens and how to keep it focused.
- From The Fabricator
Alexandria Industries named top Relay for Life fundraising team in Minnesota
- Aug 17, 2018
- News Release
Alexandria Industries, Alexandria, Minn., has been named the 2017 top fundraising team in the state of Minnesota for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Company employees raised nearly $52,000 for the event last year and have already raised more than $80,000 in 2018. Relay For Life...
- From The Fabricator
Equipment leasing and finance industry confidence eases in August
- Aug 16, 2018
- News Release
The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation has released the August 2018 "Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry," based on a survey of key executives from the $1 trillion equipment finance sector. Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market eased again in August to...
- From The Fabricator
Belden Universal names general manager
- Aug 16, 2018
- News Release
Belden Universal, a Hillside, Ill.-based global manufacturer of universal joints and drive shafts, has appointed Nick Sainati as general manager. Sainati previously worked in brand management at Starbucks’ corporate headquarters. He began his career as an investment banking analyst and corporate...
- From The Fabricator
New tax law opens opportunities for metal fabricators
- Aug 16, 2018
- Article
Changes to accounting methods, capitalization requirements, bonus depreciation, and accelerated expensing all sound pretty dry and boring. But if a fabricator develops the tax strategy around these changes, it may reap the benefits.
- From The Fabricator
Stack-on Products to lay off 150 workers, move to Mexico
- Aug 15, 2018
- News Release
Stack-on Products, a storage safe manufacturer, is closing two factories in Northern Illinois and moving operations to Juarez, Mexico, to counteract the effects of metal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration, according to the Associated Press. The Oct. 12 closure of plants in...
- From The Fabricator
Wire Association Intl. chapter adds plant tour, safety seminar to annual golf outing
- Aug 15, 2018
- News Release
The Ohio Valley Chapter (OVC) of the Wire Association Intl. has added a plant tour and safety seminar to its annual golf outing, to be held Oct. 18 at The Madison Club in Yukon, Pa. Because of the parallel nature of the wire and tube drawing industries, the chapter is opening the event to members...
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Aldine Metal Products marks 80 years in business
- Aug 14, 2018
- News Release
Aldine Metal Products, New Milford, Conn., celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. The company was founded in Brooklyn, N.Y., by Robert Blessey to serve the military procurement industry. After expanding into production of a larger variety of commercial metal products, the firm moved to...
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Northrop Grumman opens Astro Aerospace facility in California
- Aug 13, 2018
- News Release
Northrop Grumman Corp. has opened a new Astro Aerospace facility in Oxnard, Calif. The 140,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing center enables concurrent manufacturing of large satellite reflectors and other space hardware and deployable structures. Since 1958 Astro Aerospace has helped enable complex...
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M&A and the hunt for talented employees
- By Tim Heston
- Aug 13, 2018
- Article
A tight labor market means that companies looking to grow substantially are looking for alternatives, one being acquisition. It isn’t easy or without risk, though software and data analytics are mitigating some of that risk and streamlining the process.
- From The Fabricator
Fabricator raises awareness for sunken Le Griffon ship
- By Treena Hein
- Aug 10, 2018
- Article
Snyder Metal Fabricating fabricates a metal sculpture of a sunken ship for a roundabout in La Salle, Ont.
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