Mayfield Heights, Ohio-based Materion Performance Alloys has received two patents for processes that improve the fabrication of BrushForm® 158 (BF 158), the strip form of the company’s high-strength, copper-nickel-tin ToughMet® alloy. The patents cover new manufacturing technologies that...

Duval Precision Grinding, Chicopee, Mass., has been approved as a Tier 1 vendor for General Electric (GE). The company provides ID grinding, OD grinding, surface grinding, jig grinding, and CNC grinding services for a variety of industries. With this status, Duval Precision Grinding will work...

Fifteen students pursuing careers in manufacturing earned $1,500 or $2,500 toward their postsecondary studies from Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs® (NBT), The Foundation of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl.® (FMA), Elgin, Ill. For the spring 2017 semester, NBT awarded manufacturing...

Speyside Equity Fund I LP, an investor in specialty chemicals, industrials/metal forming, and food ingredients businesses, has acquired Midland Stamping and Fabricating Corp., Schiller Park, Ill., from Advanced Alloy Processing. Midland is a provider of contract metal stampings and fabrications to...

Marietta, Ga.-based MFG.com, an online manufacturing marketplace, has released the report, “How Will President Trump’s Policies Affect U.S. Manufacturing?” Based on a survey of both buyers (OEMs) and suppliers (small to midsize manufacturers) in the MFG.com marketplace, the report gauges the...

Lincoln Educational Services Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, a provider of specialized technical training, has introduced two new training options for spring 2017. A welding technology program now is available in Nashville, and the Grand Prairie, Texas, campus—an AWS Educational Institute...

The Northglenn, Colo.-based International Titanium Association (ITA) Grant Committee now is accepting applications for four individual academic scholarships in 2017. The scholarships are open to students who plan to enroll in a full-time science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM)...

Hannover Fairs USA (HFUSA), Deutsche Messe’s U.S. subsidiary, today announced that it has formed a partnership with the owners of FABTECH (FMA, SME, AWS, PMA, and CCAI) to co-locate the Industrial Automation North America and Motion, Drive & Automation North America (MDA North America) tradeshows...

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) company Sintavia LLC, Davie, Fla., has developed full end-to-end parameters for producing AM parts in F357 aluminum, as well as other aluminum-silicon alloys, for use in precision manufacturing. The firm’s proprietary process for printing F357 aluminum powder was...

While manufacturers across the U.S. are generally optimistic about revenues for 2017, small manufacturers are far more optimistic than larger manufacturers by more than a 2-to-1 margin. That is one of the findings from the 2017 "National Manufacturing Outlook Survey," conducted by the Leading Edge...

KLN Mfg. has announced plans to close its 275,000-sq.-ft. facility in San Antonio, Texas, in February 2017. The plant manufactures furniture for military barracks, universities, and hospitals. Related companies KLN Steel Products Co. and its Dallas-based parent company AGS Enterprises Inc., which...