Electrolux has announced plans to modernize and expand a 400,000-sq.-ft. appliance manufacturing facility in Springfield, Mass. The company will invest $250 million to upgrade the plant, which should be completed in 2020. The expansion is expected to create 25 jobs and add advanced manufacturing...

GE Additive, the 3-D printing branch of GE, has opened the application process for the 2018 cycle of its Additive Education Program (AEP). Schools, colleges, and universities are invited to submit their applications through Feb. 28, 2018, for a chance to get a significant 3-D printing-related...

Industrial gas company Praxair Inc., Danbury, Conn., has again earned a place in the Newsweek Green Rankings. For 2017, Praxair ranked first among all industrial gas companies and ranked 26th on the U.S. 500. The company ranked fourth out of 35 companies in the Materials sector. The U.S. 500 is an...

United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, has announced that Douglas R. Matthews, senior vice president - Industrial, Service Center and Mining Solutions, will assume day-to-day responsibilities for the company's Tubular organization on an interim basis following the recently announced retirement of...

Cutting tool manufacturer GWS Tool Group LLC, Tavares, Fla., the parent company of GW Schultz Tool and CGI Tool, has acquired Alliance CNC Cutter Grinding Services Inc., a manufacturer of tight-tolerance drills, reamers, and microtools. Alliance CNC will continue to operate its facility in Grand...

Precision Tube Laser has announced plans to open a facility in southern Nevada. The facility will provide laser tube cutting services for the metal fabrication and construction industries in Nevada and surrounding states. The company expects to hire 14 workers and make an almost $1.2 million in...

ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, Annapolis Junction, Md., has completed the acquisition of the Sandvik welding operations, including production units in Scranton, Pa., and Sandviken, Sweden; the technical sales and product management organization; as well as multiyear strategic collaboration on R&D...

Forschungsgesellschaft Umformtechnik mbH and the Institut für Umformtechnik (IFU) have announced the upcoming international conferences New Developments in Sheet Metal Forming (NEBU) 2018 and New Developments in Hydroforming (NEHY) 2018, to be held May 15-16 in Fellbach, Germany. The conferences...

Milwaukee-based Lucas-Milhaupt Inc., a Handy & Harman Company, will host its Fundamentals of Brazing regional training program May 1-3, 2018, at the Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport, Irvine, Calif. Structured for designers, processing, manufacturing and quality engineers, managers, production...