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There are 56 news releases related to finishing.
SAF (Southern Aluminum Finishing Co. Inc.), Atlanta, has promoted Howard Mount to production manager responsible for all of the company's metal fabricating operations, including shears, brakes, turrets, drills, sanding, and assembly.
Mount, who has been with the company for three years, served mo...
6/17/08
Main Steel Polishing, Tinton Falls, N.J., has promoted Albert Orengo to general manager of its facility in Wheeling, Ill.
Orengo, who has worked at Main Steel for 17 years, served previously as assistant general manager at the company's location in Bartlett, Ill. In that position he worked on ope...
6/17/08
Unist Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich., has promoted Mark Cooper to national sales manager of all of the company's products. He oversees support of the existing independent representatives by traveling to key customers, conducting product training, and assisting with specifying and quoting systems; support...
6/17/08
Schaffner Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, a producer of custom metal finishing products, recently was named a winner of Masco Corporation's 2007 MASTAR awards. The Masco Supplier Team Recognition Program awards suppliers for product quality, on-time delivery, clear communication, effective follow-up, and comp...
3/11/08
American Trim, Lima, Ohio, has acquired a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber designed to allow processing of a chromelike finish without the use of hexavalent chrome and electroplating.
The PVD process uses a base powder coating supplied by DuPont. The powder coating serves as a protective, ...
2/12/08
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show at McCormick Place in Chicago hosted more exhibiting companies and covered more exhibit space than any previous FABTECH. Filling 461,627 sq. ft. of booth space, the show attracted nearly 31,000 visitors from more than 75 countries, a 27 percent...
1/15/08
Bayloff Stamped Products, a third-generation, family-owned automotive stamping company, has appointed Tom Carey as CEO and president.
Carey implements initiatives designed to enhance customer service and position the company for continued growth. He spent more than 20 years in various engineering...
1/15/08
ATI Industrial Automation, Apex, N.C., a developer of robotic peripheral equipment, recently opened a new office in Orion Township, Mich., near Detroit. The office houses the company’s sales, customer service, and training departments and has extra space for inventory.
The company says the new of...
10/9/07
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show, the largest North American showcase of metal forming, fabricating, stamping, tube and pipe, and welding equipment and technology, will return to McCormick Place in Chicago Nov. 11 to Nov. 14.
Cosponsored by the American Welding Society (AWS...
10/9/07
Wheelabrator, LaGrange, Ga., a provider of surface preparation and finishing products, has named Allen Austin as service manager for Wheelabrator Plus, the after-sales division of Wheelabrator Group. The division provides services, replacement parts, training, and equipment upgrades.
Allen works ...
8/7/07
BTD Manufacturing Inc., Detroit Lakes, Minn., has acquired Pro Engineering, Minneapolis. The transaction involved an exchange of cash for assets.
An operating company of Otter Tail Corp., BTD offers design, engineering, prototyping, short-run applications, metal stamping, robotic and hand welding...
8/7/07
Every sales and engineering staff member of Vulcanium® Corp., Northbrook, Ill., has passed the Certified Electroplater-Finisher (CEF) exam.
Salesman Sam Stella is a CEF 3. Salesmen Terry Ciszewski and Steve Gerzel have qualified for CEF 2. Company members who have completed the CEF 1 desi...
7/10/07
The American Galvanizers Association (AGA), Centennial, Colo., has introduced a Web-based software program that automatically calculates the life-cycle cost of many common coating systems in comparison to the cost of hot-dip galvanizing.
The calculator, based on standard financial equations of ...
7/10/07
Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc., Tinton Falls, N.J., has announced the relocation of its Dallas plant to a newer, larger facility in Arlington, Tex.
The 70,000-sq.-ft. building has three cranes—two 10-ton units and one 20-ton—and a Herr-Voss Stamco 1¾-in. leveler already i...
7/10/07
Management consultant, trainer, and author Michael P. Collins will address the decline of U.S. manufacturing when he presents the keynote address at the FIN-X '07 conference and expo for industrial finishers. The event is scheduled for Sept. 17 to 20 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis....
6/12/07
Dean A. Sundquist, chairman and CEO of Mate Precision Tooling, has announced the appointment of Jack Schneider to the newly created position of vice chairman and Kevin Nicholson to the position of president.
"In the new position of vice chairman, Jack Schneider will focus on strategic and corpora...
6/5/07
Tim McLaughlin recently joined Wheelabrator Group as sales manager overseeing Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
McLaughlin has 31 years of mechanical surface preparation experience, specifically with abrasive and equipment blast cleaning and peening applications. In 2004 he retired as CEO of McL...
5/8/07
Vulcanium Corp. has added Stella Reeves to its sales staff.
Reeves has a background in chemical troubleshooting and electroplating and has worked for more than 20 years in laboratories and sales, overseeing quality programs and providing technical assistance.
Reeves' business experience has be...
5/8/07
Hans Weber Corp., Olathe, Kan., the North American sales and marketing subsidiary for Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Kronach, Germany, has appointed Brian Hilscher as regional sales manager.
The company markets the Weber line of metal grinding and finishing machines....
4/10/07
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania has added a third 24-ft. 75,000 lb. capacity furnace, which is being constructed onsite by Solar Manufacturing. The Hermitage, Pa., plant specializes in vacuum heat treating and brazing.
In 2006 the company added 16,000 square feet of floor space and its...
4/10/07
Barton Mines Col. LLC, a producer of garnet abrasive products, has appointed David Sullivan as regional sales manager for the newly created Western Great Lakes region, which includes Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Sullivan has more than 18 years' experience in industrial s...
4/10/07
Electrex Company, Inc, Harrison Township, Mich., is celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
Established in 1957 to provide electrical contracting, the company installed primary services and wired buildings, presses, and other machines. In the 1980s, with the energy crisis depressing economic growth, an...
3/13/07
Mate Precision Tooling, Anoka, Minn., has promoted Paul Sandberg to the position of vice president international sales. Sandberg assumed the position from Chet Ferger, who will continue on with the company in a newly created position of vice president of key account sales for North America.
Sandb...
2/13/07
Wheelabrator Plus, LaGrange, Ga., has announced that Tim McLaughlin has joined the company as territory account manager responsible for Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
McLaughlin, who has more than 31 years of experience in abrasive blast cleaning equipment, peening applications, and abrasives...
2/13/07
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products has announced that after nearly four years of technical discussions and meetings, Ingalls Shipyards in Mississippi, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and Avondale Shipyards in Louisiana have placed orders with the company for a new panel cutting machine. Both...
2/13/07
Paulo Products Co. has added two surface treatments at its St. Louis, Mo., facility.
Paulo – St. Louis now has the capability to perform gas nitriding. Gas nitriding is carried out in a sealed retort with an ammonia atmosphere at temperatures at or near 1,000 degrees F. Typical cycle times ...
2/13/07
AHT Corp., Waterloo, Iowa, plans to open another UltraGlow® service center in Cullman, Ala.
According to the company, the Cullman facility will have a complete line of UltraGlow ion nitriding vessels to process case-hardened metal parts to extend wear from 200 percent to 800 percent. The sur...
12/12/06
St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M recently announced plans to expand manufacturing operations for its superabrasives business. Operations currently housed in a small facility in Whippany, New Jersey, will move to a larger 3M facility in Flemington, New Jersey. All employees from the Whippany operations will ...
11/27/06
OEM Fabricators Inc., Woodville, Wis., received a grant from Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton to begin construction on a new facility in Neillsville, Wis.
The 50,000-sq.-ft facility will be used to build large components for OEMs and is expected to begin operation in early 2007. Processes that will be per...
11/7/06
International Paint LLC, Houston, a division of Akzo Nobel, has hired Bob Bernard as engineering account executive for the high-value infrastructure markets in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Bernard helps to direct the company's long-term efforts for developing brand awareness and growth ...
11/7/06
Vulcanium Corp., Northbrook, Ill., has named Rick Piacenza as director of sales. He is responsible for managing and targeting sales efforts for both anodizing and plating systems.
Piacenza directs both inside and outside sales staffs and identifies attractive markets for company products and serv...
11/7/06
Osborn Intl. North America, Cleveland, has named Richard M. Halen Jr. as president.
Halen has a background in manufacturing, engineering, operations, sales, marketing, and strategic planning. He was vice president, general manager of American Nickeloid, a coil coating, plating, and laminating fir...
9/12/06
International Paint LLC, Houston, has hired Kevin Coleman as protective coatings regional sales manager for the Southeast.
Coleman helps to direct the company's long-term efforts for expanding its protective coatings customer base in that region.
Coleman previously was employed as director of ...
9/12/06
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle honored Linetec as an exemplary employer committed to the principles of diversity in the workplace. The State of Wisconsin's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) and the NorthCentral Technical College (NTC) nominated the Wausau-based architectural metals finishing...
6/13/06
Wall Colmonoy Corp., Madison Heights, Mich., has named Morris Warino as business development manager for Wall Colmonoy Oklahoma City, which part of the WCC Aeronautical and Aerospace Group.
Morris has 17 years' experience in marketing and sales experience as the national sales manager for a manuf...
6/13/06
Weiler Corp. has announced plans to expand its Cresco, Pa.-based facility. The building project encompasses a 25,000-sq.-ft. addition to it offices and a 16,000-sq.-ft. addition to its distribution center.
The company also has hired Jeffry W. Smith as vice president of information technology. He ...
5/9/06
Abtex Corp., Victor, N.Y., has updated its fiber abrasive products catalog.
The 24-page catalog includes new products and new specifications for existing products.
Each product line in the new catalog is color-coded. Color coding begins in the table of contents, continues with margin tabs on e...
5/9/06
FKM-USA, the North American division of FKM-Walzentechnik, Duisburg, Germany, has relocated its North American headquarters to Frankfort, Ill.
The new facility has 3,000 sq. ft. of office space and 30,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space. There are three manufacturing bays, each equipped with a 25,...
5/9/06
Unaxis has announced that its coating services business unit, Balzers, has acquired the PVD coating operations of Gold Star Coatings, a subsidiary of the industrial tooling group Star Cutter Co.
Balzers assumes the function of coating partner for the tool resharpening sevice centers operated by ...
5/9/06
Wall Colmonoy Corp., Madison Heights, Mich., has elected John Sturch as vice president of the company's Aeronautical and Aerospace group.
Sturch is responsible for business development and growth for the company’s FAA-licensed repair stations in Oklahoma City and San Antonio. He has acquired than...
4/11/06
D.A. Stuart, Warrenville, Ill., has appointed Charlie Santangelo as vice president of operations effective in May. Santangelo replaces Gene Carline, who has announced his retirement.
Santangelo joined the company in 1979 as corporate technical director of rolling oils. Since then he has held seve...
3/7/06
Vulcanium® Corp. has hired James Sovik to handle outside sales and design for both the anodizing and plating units. He serves as a liaison between the sales and engineering departments and OEMs.
Sovik trains clients on the company’s products and represents the company at tradeshows and with trade...
3/7/06
Team Metal Fabricators, Addison, Ill., has updated its Web site, www.teammetalfabricators.com, to promote its custom fabrication services.
The site features the company's products and services, including engineering, metal cutting, forming, welding, polishing, and CNC machining....
2/7/06
Linetec, Wausau, Wis., has named Jon Close as its director of architectural and commercial sales.
Close oversees the company’s outside sales, inside sales, estimating, and marketing departments for its architectural and commercial business. Previously Close served as the company’s regional sales ...
1/10/06
Specialty Metals Processing has moved its corporate staff to its new Finishing Facility in Akron, Ohio.
The facility was designed for precision grinding, polishing, and buffing sheet and plate and special custom finishing.
The company’s Stow, Ohio, location continues to offer slitting with co...
1/10/06
Tucker Induction Systems, Shelby Twp., Mich., has appointed Micah Black, an induction heating author and industry speaker, as chief engineer/sales engineer. In this position, Black oversees the development and installation of the company’s induction tooling, including a new line of standard inductio...
12/13/05
Paulo Products Co., Murfreesboro, Tenn., has earned ISO/TS 16949:2002 accreditation.
This is the second Paulo facility to earn the accreditation. The company’s Nashville, Tenn. facility earned the accreditation in April 2005, and other facilities currently are working toward earning the upgrade....
12/13/05
Osborn Intl., Cleveland, has announced the completion of its new brush manufacturing and distribution facility in Richmond, Ind.
The 180,000-sq.-ft. plant produces 70 percent of all Osborn power brush products. The company says the move was necessary because of an expanding Midwest customer base...
11/8/05
Daubert VCI Inc. and Cromwell-Phoenix Inc., manufacturers of corrosion inhibitor packaging, have completed their merger to form Daubert Cromwell. With the completion of the merger, the company has appointed Roy Galman as its vice president of operations and Martin Simpson as its vice president of sa...
10/11/05
The American Galvanizers Association has announced its 12th annual Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards competition.
The awards, which are presented annually, recognize projects that utilize hot-dip galvanizing in an ideal, creative, innovative, or monumental fashion. Award categories are: ar...
10/11/05
Mid Atlantic Machinery, Harrisburg, Pa., has announced it has launched a new Web site.
The site promotes the company’s product lines as well as used and stock machinery. It highlights management and staff and provides the latest news and information....
10/11/05
Linetec, Wausau, Wis., has been accredited as a PPG Certified Applicator Program (PPG/CAP) member, which means the company has been approved to apply exterior PPG coatings such as Duranar® and Coraflon® Kynar 500®/Hylar 5000® coatings.
9/13/05
Weiler Corp. has acquired Conicity Technologies LLC. Founded in 1999, Conicity developed the patented Engineered Micro-Geometry™ (EMG) technology for preparing cutting tool edges.
Weiler Corp. manufactures power and abrasive nylon brushes, abrasives, and maintenance products....
6/14/05
International Paint LLC, a division of Akzo Nobel, has opened a Chicago distribution center.
Previously located in Louisville, Ky., the new, 10,000-sq.-ft. facility located at 931 N. DuPage Ave., Lombard, Ill., offers protective and specialty coatings to industrial, petroleum, and marine mark...
5/10/05
North American Galvanizing & Coatings Inc. has reached a tentative agreement with Gregory Industries Inc. to purchase Gregory's hot-dip galvanizing assets located in Canton, Ohio.
The acquisition expands North American Galvanizing Co.'s service area into the northeast U.S. and increases the tot...
4/12/05
Balzers, a provider of PVD coatings, is inaugurating a research laboratory in Innsbruck, Austria, together with three Austria-based partners: Plansee AG, the Montan University Leoben, and the University of Innsbruck. Research will focus on the development and characterization of innovative, thin, ha...
7/13/04
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