Cincinnati-based Enerfab, a provider of fabrication, construction, and maintenance services to the heavy industrial and utility markets, has named Scott Anderson as CEO and Robert Sylvester as president/COO. Anderson served as president of Enerfab Process Solutions and Fabrication Products from...

As St. Cloud, Minn.-based Park Industries enters the plasma market, Tom Wandmacher will operate as the director of metals processing. He will lead the sales and business development strategy for the plasma product line in partnership with Al Holst, product manager. Wandmacher and Holst have a...

MetalTek Intl., a supplier of alloy components for high-temperature, severe-wear, and harsh corrosive environments, has announced that its Wisconsin Centrifugal Division has surpassed 2 million labor-hours worked without a lost-time incident at its Waukesha, Wis., operations. This safety record has...

Concurrent Technologies Corp. (CTC) has invested $1.2 million in new additive manufacturing (AM) equipment at its Johnstown, Pa., facility. The new equipment includes a VRC Metal Systems Gen III Max cold spray system and an AMBIT™ hybrid AM multitask system installed in a Haas VF 11 multiaxis...

Cleveland-based service center Flack Global Metals has announced that its founder and CEO, Jeremy Flack, is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2017 Award in the northeast Ohio region. The awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial...

In written testimony submitted to the U.S. Commerce Department, Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) President/CEO M. Robert Weidner argued global overcapacity and other unfair trading practices, particularly by China, have harmed the U.S. steel market. The testimony...

Glens Falls, N.Y.-based Barton Intl., a provider of garnet abrasives, has promoted Delroy Ross to director of warehouse operations for two of its garnet abrasives warehouses and processing facilities in Chesapeake, Va., and Reserve, La. He previously served as warehouse manager for those...

Chicago Tube & Iron, Romeoville, Ill., has promoted Jim Farnan to vice president of procurement. He is a 22-year veteran of the steel industry, including 17 years with the company in sales and general management. Farnan has a bachelor’s degree from Loras College and has completed MSCI’s...

AIMS Metrology, Dayton, Ohio, has named Crotts & Saunders LLC as the exclusive distributor for its CMMs in West Virginia, Virginia, and North and South Carolina. Crotts & Saunders operates a 25,000-sq.-ft. facility in Winston-Salem, N.C., with two training rooms and two laboratory environments...

For the fifth year in a row, the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA), Hollywood, Fla., has awarded scholarships to high school students who are planning programs of study they can use in welding and gases distribution industry careers. The following 11 students received $2,000...

In June 2017, employment will grow at 65.4 percent of manufacturing firms and decline at 8.6 percent. The resulting net increasing index of 56.9 (65.4 - 8.6) suggests faster employment growth in manufacturing than in June 2016 (50.8). In June 2017, employment levels will grow at 61.0 percent of...