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Logopress Corp., Besancon, France, developer of Logopress3 Die Design software ,will celebrate its 20th anniversary, since it was founded in October, 1989. Along with its North American Distributor and Technical Center, Accurate Die Design Inc., New Berlin, Wis., it will conclude its celebration o...
10/21/09
PTM Corp. and Modified Technologies Advanced Engineering and Tooling Group, Fair Haven, Mich., have announced the addition of a new military division piloted by Samra Weindl. Weindl was hired by PTM as its military defense specialist to explore the military sector for contracts and other related bus...
9/9/09
Waukesha Tool & Stamping, Sussex, Wis., has acquired Parkview Metal Products, Lake Zurich, Ill. With the acquisition, the companies will combine and form Waukesha Metal Products.
The acquisition adds fabrication and robotic welding to Waukesha's capabilities while expanding its stamping and autom...
8/11/09
Wilson Tool International, an independent manufacturer of tooling systems for punch presses, press brakes, and punch and die components for the stamping industry, announced today it has opened a new office in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new office will serve Wilson Tool customers in South Afric...
7/15/09
Mate Precision Tooling has announced the opening of its new and expanded European headquarters and manufacturing facilities. Centrally located in Frankfurt Germany, the new facilities culminate a major investment by the company in the latest manufacturing technologies including best practices from i...
6/29/09
Detroit Tool Metal Products (DTMP) today announced that it will consolidate to one central facility in Lebanon, Missouri, closing its Fort Madison, Iowa, site by the end of the year. Key management and staff may be offered relocation from Fort Madison to Lebanon and important tools and equipment wil...
6/11/09
Mate Precision Tooling, Anoka, Minn., has expanded its commitment to the Latin American fabricating market with new sales representatives and dealer appointments and new customer service and marketing initiatives.
Grupo Disma-mex, a Mate dealer in Mexico since 1997, continues to sell its product...
6/9/09
Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, Pa., announced today that two of its inventors were honored with the Advanced Manufacturing Award at the 13th Annual Carnegie Science Center Awards. This is the eighth time that Kennametal has been recognized for excellence in the areas of advanced manufacturing, materials,...
6/1/09
BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc., a supplier of high-precision tooling systems, has announced the groundbreaking of a new corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill. The company and all of its employees, along with Hoffman Estates Village Officials, celebrated the beginning of construction with...
5/20/09
Kennametal Inc. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its high speed steel drills, related product lines, and assets to Top Eastern Drill Co., Ltd. (TDC). This sale is in alignment with Kennametal's strategy to shape its business portfolio and rationalize its manufacturin...
5/19/09
Manchester Tool & Die Inc. has announced its new Web site, www.manchestertoolanddie.com, which features an updated, user-friendly design. The site offers complete product details and specifications for the company's crimping, grooving, and end forming machines, including standard specifications, add...
5/5/09
Anoka, Minn.-based Mate Precision Tooling, a global manufacturer of original and replacement tooling for CNC punch presses, was named "2009 Manufacturer of the Year" by the Manufacturers Alliance.
In making the award, the Manufacturer's Alliance said Mate was selected for exemplifying the true mean...
4/16/09
BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling, Elk Grove Village, Ill., has appointed Fred Messmer as national sales manager. He has more than 30 years of industry experience in senior sales and marketing roles with such companies as Horizon Solutions, Walter Carbide, Mitsubishi Carbide, and Sandvik.
The company ...
4/14/09
Atlantic Tool & Die – Alabama (ATD-AL), located in Anniston, Ala., has been recognized by the Alabama Automotive Manufacturers Association as the 2008 Outstanding Automotive Supplier in Alabama. A first-tier supplier to Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, ATD manufactures metal stampings from pro...
4/14/09
Rockford Toolcraft Inc., a tool and die builder and metal stamper in Rockford, Ill., has acquired an Amada LC-F1NT series laser cutting machine. The 6,000-W LC4020 flying-optic laser uses linear drives in all three axes. It features a 6-ft. by 12-ft. shuttle table with the ability to cut steel up to...
4/14/09
Rockford Toolcraft Inc., a tool and die builder and metal stamper in Rockford, Ill., has been recognized by Daimler Trucks North America as a Masters of Quality supplier. The award recently was presented to Jerry and Tom Busse by the purchasing management team of Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) ...
3/10/09
Monroe, N.C.-based AP&T, a supplier of automation, hydraulic presses, tools, and production lines to the sheet metal industry, has announced personnel changes.
After a six-month interim term, Adam Allansson has been appointed the new managing director for AP&T North America.
To be closer to ...
2/2/09
Accurate Die Design Inc. has launched a new interactive Web site and a new logo.
The site, at www.accuratediedesign.com, has a photo gallery that shows 3-D models, 2-D drawings, and 3-D renderings. It also has streaming video clips of Logopress3 and FTI products....
1/13/09
Manchester Tool & Die Inc., North Manchester, Ind., has opened a new fabricating plant that offers steel fabrication services. The plant is equipped with two brake presses with capacities of 3/8 in. by 6 ft., 5/16 in. by 8 ft., and 1/4 in. by 10 ft., as well as a GMAW machine for custom and producti...
12/16/08
Mate Precision Tooling, Anoka, Minn., a manufacturer of CNC punch press tooling, has promoted Andy-Spence Parsons to vice president operations. He is responsible for the company's customer service, custom engineering, shipping, and information services departments.
Spence-Parsons joined the compa...
6/17/08
Talan Products, Cleveland, became one of two U.S. metal forming companies to make the 2008 Inner City 100 list, a national ranking of the fastest-growing inner-city companies from the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Inc. magazine.
Only 10 manufacturers and two metal forming com...
6/17/08
Stamtec, Manchester, Tenn., recently launched a new Web site at www.stamtec.com.
The site includes information, features, photos, diagrams, and specifications for the company's mechanical stamping presses. It also includes pages for service and parts, a company profile, and auxiliary equipment su...
4/15/08
The Bazz Houston Co., Garden Grove, Calif., has purchased Connor Mfg. Services de Mexico. The two companies are completely integrated, and Bazz Houston Mexico has relocated its facility to Tijuana.
Bazz Houston Co. has ISO 9001:2000-certified manufacturing facilities in both Southern California a...
4/15/08
The Genesee Group/NY Inc., West Henrietta, N.Y., a contract manufacturer of metal components and assemblies for various industries, recently changed its name to Genesee Global Group. The name reflects the company’s new organizational status independent of two related businesses in Tennessee and Texa...
4/15/08
Wilson Tool International®, White Bear Lake, Minn., a manufacturer of tooling for sheet metal fabrication, has appointed Jay Dienst as vice president of sales for North and Latin America.
Dienst is responsible for planning and directing all of the company's sales operations in the Americas a...
3/11/08
Pax Products Inc., Celina, Ohio, a producer of ancillary pressroom equipment, has expanded the product information section and photo gallery on its Web site at www.paxproducts.com.
The company says the site now offers more detailed information about its product line, including stock and die lubri...
2/12/08
ATI Industrial Automation, Apex, N.C., an engineering-based developer of robotic peripheral equipment, recently opened an office in Beijing.
The new office houses sales, customer service, and training departments, along with areas for spare parts and product demonstration. The company says it pos...
1/15/08
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
The Bradbury Co., Moundridge, Kan., a manufacturer of metal roll forming and processing equipment, has promoted COO David Cox to president.
Cox, who joined the company in 1997, also has served as general manager and operations manager. In addition to his responsibilities as president, he continue...
12/11/07
Braketown U.S.A., Milwaukee, a national machinery service and safety provider, has been appointed by ToolsPress Srl., Parma, Italy, a manufacturer of American- and European-style press brake tooling, as its exclusive North American distributor.
A division of Mac-Tech Inc., Braketown operates fro...
11/6/07
De-Sta-Co provided facility tours and interactive product demonstrations during an open house at its new global headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich., in September. To increase efficiency and minimize internal complexity, the company consolidated multiple locations into the facility earlier this year,...
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
The Bradbury Co. Inc., Moundridge, Kan., has announced two appointments to its engineering staff. The company has hired Mark McFetridge as a senior project engineering manager and Rex Stutterheim as a technical assistant.
McFetridge is part of a management team responsible for translating custome...
9/11/07
Ready Technology Inc., Marietta, Ga., has hired Justin Hedrick as manager of its Bolden Die Supply Div.
Hedrick works to enhance customer, vendor, and supplier relationships and is responsible for all aspects of sales, including training of inside support staff on the company’s product lines and ...
9/11/07
Service Stampings Inc. (SSI), Willoughby, Ohio, has appointed Rob Stohlman as vice president of sales. Stohlman expands the company's business partnerships in the metal fabricating and small-lot stamping industries.
Previously Stohlman led acquisition and marketing programs at Superior Services. ...
9/11/07
Oak Press Solutions Inc. and its sister company, Burr Oak Tool Inc., Sturgis, Mich., have formed a collaborative firm in China.
Wuxi Oak Technology Co., the new organization, manufactures fin stamping dies and related fin line components used by the heating and air-conditioning industry in China....
9/11/07
De-Sta-Co, Auburn Hills, Mich., has announced four staff appointments. The company, which designs and manufactures clamping, gripping, transfer, and robotic tooling products, has promoted Steve McBride to the position of sales manager for North America; named Eric Ringholm as director of pneu...
7/24/07
Wilson Tool International has named Brian Robinson as its new CEO. Robinson, a Wilson Tool employee since 1991 and co-president since 1999, has full responsibility and authority to manage Wilson Tool and all its subsidiaries worldwide.
After 41 years, company founder, innovator, and industry icon...
6/27/07
Progressive Stamping & Fabricating, a division of Ohio Gasket & Shim, Akron, Ohio, has received conditional approval for ISO 9001:2000 certification.
Progressive is a full-service metal stamping company. The company now plans to achieve ISO 14001.
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
Kennametal Inc., LaTrobe, Pa., has announced that President and CEO Carlos Cardoso has been named one of the best CEOs by Institutional Investor magazine. This recognition places Cardoso among the top five CEOs in the capital goods/industrials category and machinery sector.
More than 1,000 portfo...
6/1/07
Serapid Inc., Sterling Heights, Mich., has added Eric Petterson to its sales staff. Petterson joined the Quick Die Change sales division in March 2007.
Serapid is an industrial manufacturing company boasting over 30 years of experience in the industrial market and equipment movement technology....
5/8/07
Wilson Tool Intl., White Bear Lake, Minn., an independent tooling manufacturer for sheet metal fabrication, has been named Manufacturer of the Year by the Manufacturers Alliance. The award is given annually to companies that best exemplify lean manufacturing practices, while also sharing their knowl...
4/18/07
Fuchs Lubricants Co. was awarded the Precision Metalforming Association's Next Gen Innovation Award for the "Best New Materials" at the 2007 Metalform tradeshow in Chicago.
Fuchs was recognized for the development of RENOFORM SYN 7940 stamping die lubricant. The first die lubricant to win this aw...
4/11/07
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
Serapid has announced MasTech of Troy, Mich, and Schweda Machine Tool Sales of Delafield, Wis., ( a part of Concept Machine Tool Sales) as new representatives of its products.
Serapid is a industrial company with more than 30 years' experience and a provider of equipment movement technology....
1/9/07
The use of high-strength steel (HSS) is increasing in popularity with automakers that are using it to manufacture lighter cars to help reduce fuel consumption. However, using HSS complicates the forming process.
Due to the heavy mechanical load, the matrix wears out more quickly with HSS than wi...
12/12/06
Kennametal Inc., a global supplier of tooling, engineered components, and materials consumed in production processes, has presented its fifth annual Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Excellence Awards to six Kennametal projects worldwide. The awards recognize excellence in promoting progressive...
11/28/06
Five Star Die Casting, Minneapolis, a division of Marshall Mfg., has appointed Alan Koch as general manager.
Koch will lead all of Five Star’s manufacturing operations, including engineering, production, and customer relations.
Koch has 25 years of experience in die casting and management. He ...
10/10/06
Mate Precision Tooling, Anoka, Minn., has appointed Joseph Schneider as vice president of marketing.
Most recently Schneider was Mate's product engineering manager. He was the company's e-business manager before that. Schneider will apply his 10 years of experience in manufacturing and product des...
10/10/06
DECO Tool Supply Co., Omaha, Neb., was named as a sales representative for Serapid, Sterling Heights, Mich.
DECO has more than 60 years' experience in the industrial supply business and handles Serapid's industrial and quick die change products.
Serapid's products are used in a variety of indu...
10/10/06
Serapid USA, Sterling Heights, Mich., has recently named five organizations as its new sales representatives.
New representatives are Industrial Equipment and Supply, Minneapolis; Dynamic Automation, Clarkston, Mich.; JFS Industrial and Automation, Elgin, Ill.; Smith Industrial, Caledonia, Mich.;...
9/12/06
Kramski North America Inc., Largo, Fla., has signed a contract with The Campbell Company, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., a manufacturer's representative agency.
The firm will represent Kramski's manufacturing facilities to automotive OEM and Tier 1 companies in and around Detroit.
Kramski North Amer...
8/8/06
MegaFab, Hutchinson, Kan., has appointed Hugh D. Barron as sales manager for Latin America.
Barron is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. He is working to establish additional representation in areas needed within Latin America, enhance sales efforts, and support the sales and service channels for ...
8/8/06
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
Schuler Hydroforming GmbH & Co. KG, Wilnsdorf, Germany, and HEATform GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany, have entered into a strategic agreement concerning cooperation on HEATforming (hot expansion air technology forming).
This technology uses inner pressure to form prewarmed hollow shapes. Schuler now off...
4/11/06
TD Center®, Columbus, Ind., has named Mike Dellekamp as account manager for northern Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and the western U.S. region.
Dellekamp has experience in sales territory management for special design assembly, process, and test systems. Most recently he served as ...
4/11/06
Dadco, Plymouth, Mich., has updated its Web site, www.dadco.net, to include downloadable CAD files for the company’s products.
The site features simplified navigation with new drop-down menus and links to product catalogs and bulletins. Additional information is presented on the company's nitroge...
3/7/06
TD Center®, Columbus, Ind., has appointed Doug Hogan as sales representative for Kentucky and Tennessee.
Hogan is a partner with the company's current Indiana representative, H.S.A. Manufacturing Solutions. He has extensive manufacturing knowledge and training specialization in metal forming...
3/7/06
Atlas Technologies Inc., Fenton, Mich., has relocated its South Alloy Drive headquarters to its newer Copper Avenue Technical Center.
The company built the 59,000-sq.-ft. center in 1997 with plans to double the size of the facility on the 11-acre site to suit the needs of the NAFTA automotive and...
3/7/06
AW Precision LLC, Milwaukee, has opened a manufacturing facility in Belgium known as AW Precision BVBA.
The goal of the new facility is to strengthen its mainland European service to meet the demands for supplying punches and dies throughout western and eastern Europe.
The company also has mad...
1/10/06
TD Center®, Columbus, Ind., has made several changes to its Web site, www.tdcoating.com, to provide more user-friendly navigation and updated content.
The home page features a summary of the TD Process and its benefits. Links to the site’s various sections are located near the top of the hom...
12/13/05
Anchor Die Technologies Inc., Cleveland, sister company of Anchor Manufacturing Group Inc., has appointed Don Frank as its president.
Frank has been with Anchor Manufacturing for more than five years and has contributed to the growth of the Metal Forming and Steering Products division.
Anchor ...
11/8/05
The Minnesota Council For Quality announced today that it has presented Anoka, Minn.-based Mate Precision Tooling, a manufacturer of punch press tooling, with the 2005 Minnesota Quality Award.
Brian Lassiter, president, Minnesota Council For Quality, made the announcement and stated, "Mate was r...
10/27/05
Mega Fabrication Inc., Hutchinson, Kan., has announced several organizational changes within its merged companies of Piranha, Bertsch, and W.A. Whitney. The company also announced the establishment of a corporatewide engineering center.
Dave Barber, former president of W.A. Whitney, has been name...
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
Engineering Quality Solutions Inc. President Daniel Schaeffler has been elected secretary of the North American Deep Drawing Research Group (NADDRG).
NADDRG fosters and encourages sheet metal forming research in materials, tool and die design, lubrication, testing, and fabrication, with an emphasis...
9/13/05
Serapid USA Inc. has hired Mark Kubik as Quick Die Xchange products manager.
Kubik has 15 years' experience in the metal stamping industry. He previously was employed by Hilma, where he served as the regional manager for quick die change products.
2/8/05
Riviera Tool Co., a supplier of custom metal stamping die systems, has appointed J. Dan Engels to its board of directors.
Engels is founder and director of Global Rush, an international automotive parts and tooling sourcing strategist, Optiprise, a lean manufacturing consulting business, and ISC ...
1/19/05
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