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Quality Tool adds turret punch/laser

Published: March 5, 2010

Quality Tool Inc., a metal fabrication contract manufacturer based in St. Paul, Minn., has added the Amada® EMLK3610NT turret punch/laser...

M&M Mfg. hires VP of commercial business development

Published: March 5, 2010

M&M Manufacturing Co., a Fort Worth, Texas, manufacturer of rectangular, spiral, and round duct pipe and fittings for commercial and residential...

FMA, TPA seek applicants for industry awards

Published: March 5, 2010

The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl.® (FMA) and the Tube & Pipe Association Intl.® (TPA) seek applicants for two industry...

LAI launches upgraded Web site

Published: February 9, 2010

LAI Intl. Inc. has upgraded its Web site, www.laico.com, to highlight its capabilities for precision contract manufacturing. The site includes...

Ohio Laser earns ISO 9001:2008 certification

Published: February 9, 2010

Plain City, Ohio-based Ohio Laser LLC has received ISO 9001:2008 certification. The company is an industrial laser cutting and metal fabrication...

D&S Mfg. installs wire mesh belt blaster

Published: February 9, 2010

D&S Mfg., a custom manufacturer of large-scale components, assemblies, and complete weldments in Black River Falls, Wis., has installed a custom...

General MetalWorks Corp. receives 2010 Industry Award

Published: January 12, 2010

General MetalWorks Corp. (GenMet), a custom metal fabricator based in Mequon, Wis., has received The FABRICATOR 's Industry Award 2010, presented...

American Friction Welding installs Thompson machine

Published: January 12, 2010

American Friction Welding has added a Thompson automated friction welding system to its Brookfield, Wis., facility after securing a six-year...

Tendon Mfg. certified to ISO 9001:2008

Published: January 12, 2010

Tendon Mfg. Inc., a metal fabricator in Cleveland, has been certified to ISO 9001:2008. The contract manufacturer specializes in design,...

Sioux Corp. wins presidential export award

Published: January 12, 2010

Sioux Corp. of Beresford, S.D., was one of 21 companies honored by U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke in November as a recipient of the 2009...

LAI to manufacture JSF jet structural components

Published: December 15, 2009

LAI Intl. Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz., supplier of precision components and subassemblies for OEMs, has entered into a multiyear,...

Account manager joins Elite Mfg. Technologies

Published: December 15, 2009

Elite Mfg. Technologies, Bloomingdale, Ill., has hired Steve Schommer as account manager. He brings more than 15 years of sales experience in...

Plouse Precision Mfg. launches virtual factory tour

Published: December 15, 2009

Plouse Precision Mfg., a contract manufacturer in Harrisburg, Pa., has established an online virtual factory tour that enables visitors to the...

Seeley purchases John G. Wilson Machine Ltd.

Published: December 15, 2009

Bruce Seeley, a former senior executive with ATS Automation Tooling Systems, Cambridge, Ont., Canada, has purchased John G. Wilson Machine Ltd., a...

Pickwick earns spot on Inc.5000 for second year

Published: December 15, 2009

Pickwick Mfg. Services has been named to the 2009 Inc. 5000, which lists the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. The Cedar Rapids,...

TRUMPF celebrates 50 years of nibbler technology

Published: November 20, 2009

The hand-guided TRUMPF power nibbler is celebrating its50th birthday. The first tool, based on technical principles developed by Berthold...

Harco Metal Products purchases state-of-the-art equipment

Published: November 20, 2009

Harco Metal Products (Harco), Tempe, Ariz., a provider of tube fabrication, systems integration, and seamless manufacturing, has announced the...

The Metal Shop installs new Mitsubishi laser

Published: November 10, 2009

The Metal Shop LLC, a custom metal fabrication business in Crystal Lake, Ill., has installed a new Mitsubishi 3015 LVP LUS II laser with a 5- by...

D&S Mfg. installs cutting system

Published: November 10, 2009

D&S Mfg., a custom manufacturer of large-scale components, assemblies, and complete weldments located in Black River Falls, Wis., has installed a...

RoMan Eng. moves to new location

Published: November 10, 2009

RoMan Eng. Services has moved to a new location in Livonia, Mich. The new manufacturing, laboratory, and office space offers improved facilities,...

L.B. Foster, Lally Pipe & Tube joint venture to manufacture precision pipe couplings

Published: November 5, 2009

L.B. Foster Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., has announced a newly formed joint venture between three partners, Kentucky-based Lally Pipe & Tube, L.B....

U.S. warship with bow section forged from WTC steel to be commissioned Nov. 7

Published: November 5, 2009

The fifth in a line of a new class of warship will be commissioned and welcomed into the U.S. Navy on Saturday, Nov. 7, at special ceremonies in...

Mound Technologies wins $1.5 million contract from Army National Guard

Published: October 15, 2009

Heartland Inc., a diversified company with businesses in steel warehousing and fabrication and petroleum retail and wholesale operations, today...

ACS Precision adds laser machine

Published: October 13, 2009

ACS Precision LLC, Mercersburg, Pa., has installed a 4,000-W Mitsubishi LXP laser machine, capable of processing material up to 0.75-in.-thick...

Laser Mechanisms opens new facility

Published: October 13, 2009

Laser Mechanisms has announced the expected occupancy on Oct. 1 of its new, 28,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing and warehousing facility in Novi, Mich....

Koester Metals names two new managers

Published: October 13, 2009

Koester Metals Inc., Defiance, Ohio, has announced the appointment of two staff members to support the company's growth plans and expansion into...

Quality Controlled Mfg. receives Gold Status award

Published: October 13, 2009

Quality Controlled Mfg. Inc., San Diego, has received Supplier Gold status from United Technologies Corp., Hartford, Conn., and its subsidiary,...

Walker Corp. expands in Mexico

Published: October 13, 2009

Walker Corp., a precision metal forming company with headquarters in Ontario, Calif., has announced its recent acquisition of Specialty...

Detroit Tool Metal Products to receive Senate Appropriation Committee funding

Published: October 7, 2009

Detroit Tool Metal Products (DTMP), Lebanon, Mo., has announced that the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has approved $2 million in funding...

LSA Laser moves to new facility

Published: September 23, 2009

LSA Laser, Plymouth, Minn., a precision laser processor of components and assemblies for the medical device industry, has moved to new 26,000 sq....

Textron's Bell Helicopter awards Latrobe Specialty Steel Premier Supplierstatus

Published: September 22, 2009

Textron's Bell Helicopter awarded Latrobe Specialty Steel Premier Supplier status. Bell's Premier Supplier status requires Latrobe Specialty...

Alloy Engineering recognized as outstanding Ohio-based exporter

Published: September 9, 2009

The Alloy Engineering Co., Berea, Ohio, was recognized as one of Ohio's outstanding exporting firms at the Ohio Global Summit 2009 at ceremonies...

PTM Corp. hires military defense specialist

Published: September 9, 2009

PTM Corp. and Modified Technologies Advanced Engineering and Tooling Group, Fair Haven, Mich., have announced the addition of a new military...

D&S Manufacturing names general manager

Published: September 9, 2009

Michael Dougherty, president of D&S Manufacturing, Black River Falls, Wis., has announced the promotion of John Barkley to General Manager....

Vibro Industries celebrates 25 years in U.S.

Published: September 9, 2009

Vibro Industries is celebrating its 25th anniversary as the first manufacturer of transporters in the U.S. The company began selling transporters...

LAI recognized by Inc. 5000 for third consecutive year

Published: August 15, 2009

LAI International Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., a supplier of precision components and subassemblies for original equipment manufacturers, has...

Ford increasing North American production

Published: August 13, 2009

Ford Motor Company today announced it is increasing North American production in the third and fourth quarters to respond to growing demand for...

D&S Mfg. provides scholarshiops for girls' engineering program

Published: August 11, 2009

D&S Mfg., Black River Falls, Wis., has presented scholarships for the STEPS for Girls summer program to two local students from Black River Falls...

GKN Aerospace adds tube bending machines for complex parts

Published: August 11, 2009

GKN Aerospace has installed Unison all-electric, combined left- and right-hand bending machines at its wing component operation in Filton, U.K....

Employee training, renovations ready Chicago Assembly Plant for new Ford Taurus production

Published: Array

Ford Motor Co. is celebrating production of the all-new 2010 ford Taurus in the historic Chicago Assembly Plant, which has been retooled to build...

L.B. Foster to provide 480 tons of pipe piling to Minnesota DOT

Published: July 27, 2009

L.B. foster Co., Pittsburgh, a manufacturer, fabricator, and distributor of products for rail, construction, utility, and energy industries, has...

FMA and TPA seek applicants for industry awards

Published: July 23, 2009

The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl. (FMA) and the Tube & Pipe Association, Intl. (TPA) seek applicants for two industry awards....

Mechanical Inc. purchases Norstar Mechanical

Published: July 20, 2009

Freeport, Ill.-based Mechanical Inc., a mechanical contracting firm, has entered the sheet metal business by purchasing the commercial division of...

Cequent Performance Products plant logs one million hours without lost work day injury

Published: July 20, 2009

TriMas Corp., a diversified manufacturer of engineered and applied products, today announced that its Cequent Performance Products manufacturing...

Accuride products meet RoHS requirements

Published: July 14, 2009

Accuride, a manufacturer of precision ball bearing slides in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., has achieved full compliance with the RoHS (Restriction of...

Lincoln Industries names vice president

Published: July 14, 2009

Lincoln Industries, a metal fabricator and finisher in Lincoln, Neb., has selected Bill Ellerbee to serve as vice president of operations....

CenterLine (Windsor) Ltd. hires account manager

Published: July 14, 2009

CenterLine (Windsor) Ltd., Windsor, Ont., has hired Brad Dierickse as account manager. He has 20 years of practical business experience in the...

STI/SPFA announces 2008 Quality Award winners

Published: July 14, 2009

Steel Tank Institute/Steel Plate Fabricators Association (STI/SPFA), Lake Zurich, Ill., has recognized multiple locations at more than 20 member...

Arvite Technologies adds CO2 CNC laser capacity

Published: July 14, 2009

To increase its laser cutting capacity, Arvite Technologies Inc., Erie, Pa., has added a TRUMPF 2030 TruLaser to its production line. The machine...

Red Bud celebrates 50th anniversary

Published: July 13, 2009

Red Bud, Ill.-based Red Bud Industries, a manufacturer of coil processing lines, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. In 1959, Ken...

Automotive supplier expands operations in Michigan

Published: June 25, 2009

PTM Corp. has announced the addition of a 600 ton Eagle press in its Fair Haven, Mich., metal stamping facility. According to PTM sales manager...

Detroit Tool Metal Products to consolidate locations

Published: June 11, 2009

Detroit Tool Metal Products (DTMP) today announced that it will consolidate to one central facility in Lebanon, Missouri, closing its Fort...

Airtronics contracted to build vacant property protection system components

Published: June 10, 2009

Chicago-based Vacant Property Security recently awarded Airtronics Metal Products Inc., San Jose, Calif., a contract to manufacture heavy-gauge...

LAI recognized by Northrop Grumman

Published: May 15, 2009

LAI International Inc., a strategic supplier of precision components and subassemblies for original equipment manufacturers, was honored by...

Rubis-Precis/Micropierre expands two plants

Published: May 12, 2009

The French group Rubis-Precis/Micropierre, a producer of high-precision components and assemblies in stainless steel, titanium, gold, platinum,...

Henze Stamping and Mfg. receives award from U.S. Defense Logistics Agency

Published: April 14, 2009

Henze Stamping and Manufacturing, Troy, Mich., has been recognized by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency as the DLA New Contractor of the Year. The...

Airtronics recognized for contributions to San Jose economy

Published: March 16, 2009

San Jose, Calif. Mayor Chuck Reed and Council Member Madison Nguyen recognized Airtronics Metal Products in a commendation presented to company...

Pratt & Whitney engine wins Aviation WeekLaureate Award

Published: March 4, 2009

The Pratt & Whitney PurePower(TM) PW1000G engine team won the 2009 Aviation Week Laureate Award for outstanding achievement in Aeronautics and...

Ford's Romeo, Mich., Engine Plant produces 10 millionth engine

Published: February 19, 2009

After years of delivering power to two of Ford Motor Company's iconic products, the Ford F-150 and Mustang, Romeo Engine Plant has reached a...

Electrex celebrates 50th anniversary

Published: March 13, 2007

Electrex Company, Inc, Harrison Township, Mich., is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Established in 1957 to provide electrical contracting, the...