Germany-based data M Sheet Metal Solutions, a developer of roll forming software, has received the Foreign Trade Award from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology in the Services category. The award recognizes Bavarian companies with 50 or fewer staff members and...

Kenmode Precision Metal Stamping, Algonquin, Ill., has expanded its team in metal stamping quality, production, project management and distribution with two new managers and three employee promotions. Greg Beck has been hired as production supervisor after working for 26 years at Ultra Stamping and...

Radnor, Pa.-based Airgas USA LLC, an Air Liquide company, has announced plans to build an air separation unit in Mebane, N.C. The company reports that the facility will increase the company’s production capabilities while strengthening its East Coast merchant gases network. Expected to open in...

Maple Plain, Minn.-based Proto Labs, a provider of rapid prototyping and on-demand production of custom parts and assemblies using 3-D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding processes, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held company Rapid...

DBM Global Inc., Phoenix, a family of companies providing fully integrated structural and steel construction services and an operating subsidiary of HC2 Holdings Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Mountain States Steel Inc. (MSS), a structural steel fabricator in Lindon,...

The Metals Service Center Institute, Rolling Meadows, Ill., has streamlined its board of directors, reducing the maximum number of directors by 60 percent and creating four official standing committees responsible for audit, compensation, finance, and governance/nominating. “Our new, modern board...

Europa Mfg. Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SenTech EAS Corp., has announced an expansion with the addition of new equipment at its Boca Raton, Fla., facility. The company supplies precision metal fabrication to OEMs nationwide. The company recently purchased a new LVD Strippit Lynx FL fiber...

North American Stamping Group, a provider of Tier 2 stampings, has appointed Scott Whetter as its new vice president of sales and engineering. He has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. Before joining the company, Whetter was vice president of sales for the Americas at The...

New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor New Flyer Industries Inc., has announced plans to build a $28 million part fabrication facility in Shepherdsville, Ky. The 300,000-sq.-ft. facility will fabricate parts for the manufacture of...

The U.S. Dept. of Commerce has announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of cold-drawn mechanical tubing from Germany, China, Switzerland, India, Italy, and Korea. The Commerce Department preliminarily determined that exporters from...