FMA’s Annual Meeting, March 7-9, 2018, in Scottsdale, Ariz., is a unique networking opportunity for the metal manufacturing community. Key stakeholders all gather in one place for two and a half days of conference programming that provide many chances for formal and informal networking. From...

Steel producer SMS group North America and Arkansas Northeastern College (ANC) have signed an agreement creating the Arkansas Steelmaking Academy (ASA), which will begin offering training in 2019. With the opening of Big River Steel, northeastern Arkansas has one of the highest regional...

Primetals Technologies has received an order from steel producer ArcelorMittal México S.A. de C.V. to supply a hot strip mill and a hot skin pass mill for its production site in Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán State, Mexico. This will enable ArcelorMittal Lázaro Cárdenas to process the...

Fume extraction vendor ULT LLC, Mequon, Wis., has appointed Indianapolis-based Slade Associates Inc., a provider of industrial air filter systems, to distribute ULT air purifiers and provide service and installation to customers in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio. The...

Specialty Strip & Oscillating Inc., a supplier of conventional slit and oscillate coils in Masury, Ohio, has announced new slitting capabilities. The company manufactures coils in cold-rolled low-carbon, high-carbon, alloy, and stainless steel that can run 20 to 25 miles continuously. One of the...

Spectralytics, a Cretex Medical company, a laser cutting and processing contract manufacturer serving the global medical device industry, has opened a product development center in Maple Plain, Minn. The new facility is dedicated to helping customers develop concepts, validate designs, design for...

Doerken Corp. USA, Grass Lake, Mich., a manufacturer of corrosion protection coating systems for fasteners, springs, brackets, clips, stamped parts, and large underbody components, has announced the appointment of Dennis Mulalic as director of business affairs and Kristie Maciejewski as OEM...

CGTech marks three decades in business in 2018. Based in Irvine, Calif., the company has 10 wholly owned subsidiaries in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Singapore, India, Brazil, and Korea. The company started when founder Jon Prun recognized a need to verify NC tool path programs...