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Centria Coating Services appoints architectural market manager

Published: January 23, 2012
Tech Cell: Finishing

Moon Township, Pa.-based Centria Coating Services has announced the appointment of Tom Lewis to architectural market manager. In this newly...

Gesswein opens new U.S. headquarters

Published: January 23, 2012
Tech Cell: Power Tools, Finishing, Consumables

Gesswein, a supplier of abrasives, tools, and machines for metalworking, has announced the opening of its new headquarters in Bridgeport, Conn....

Diamond Ground Products celebrates 20th anniversary

Published: January 4, 2012
Tech Cell: Finishing

Diamond Ground Products, Newbury Park, Calif., is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a "12 Grinders in 12 Months Giveaway." Participants...

Saar-Harmetall installs beveling machine at Shaw

Published: November 7, 2011
Tech Cell: Finishing

Saar-Hartmetall USA LLC, Covington, Ky., has installed and commissioned a Gerima LGA 3000 type III high-performance beveler at Shaw Modular...

DeVilbiss, Binks joins with Owens Community College to present spray finishing training

Published: October 31, 2011
Tech Cell: Finishing

DeVilbiss, Binks, a spray finishing equipment manufacturer in Glendale Heights, Ill., and Owens Community College, Toledo, Ohio, have teamed up to...

Pferd receives Top 100 designation

Published: September 19, 2011
Tech Cell: Finishing

August Rüggeberg GmbH & Co., manufacturer of Pferd brand grinding, finishing, cutting, and maintenance tools, has been named a 2011 recipient...

Dörken Corp. celebrates 10th anniversary

Published: September 8, 2011
Tech Cell: Finishing

Dörken Corp. USA, Grass Lake, Mich., an operating unit of Dörken MKS-Systeme, Herdecke, Germany, and a manufacturer of corrosion-protection...

DeVilbiss, Binks announce upcoming training programs

Published: July 11, 2011
Tech Cell: Finishing

DeVilbiss, Binks has collaborated with Owens Community College to present two training programs in November at the college in Toledo, Ohio. The...

3M wins American Technology Award for abrasives platform

Published: June 27, 2011
Tech Cell: Finishing

The Cubitron II abrasives technology platform from 3M, St. Paul, Minn., has won the TechAmerica Foundation's American Technology Award in the...

Weiler donates to training for returning vets

Published: April 4, 2011
Tech Cell: Finishing, Training and Retention

Weiler Corp., Cresco, Pa., has donated wire brushes, grinding wheels, hand brushes, and tools for a veterans training program run by the...

Abrasive product line to expand

Published: November 8, 2010
Tech Cell: Finishing

Saint-Gobain Abrasives Inc. has launched a new Norton product expansion program for the metal fabricating industry. The company will introduce...

Paulo Products Co. announces staff changes

Published: October 18, 2010
Tech Cell: Finishing

Paulo Products Co. has appointed Curt Heineck as business development manager and Charlie Bernhard as production manager at its Kansas City...

Acculloy Mfg. opens PerformaCoat division

Published: September 27, 2010
Tech Cell: Finishing

Acculloy Mfg. Solutions has begun operations at PerformaCoat Inc., a new division performing advanced protective and lubricating coating services...

CGW hires application engineer

Published: May 3, 2010
Tech Cell: Finishing

CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels, Niles, Ill., has hired Rodney Neil Finch as application engineer. He is responsible for market growth in the...

PaintExpo to include more than 300 exhibitors

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Finishing

The 3rd PaintExpo, an international trade fair for industrial coating technology, will be held April 13-16, 2010, in Karlsruhe Exhibition Center,...

IFH Group acquires Williams Powder Coating

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Finishing

The IFH Group Inc., Rock Falls, Ill., has acquired Williams Powder Coating of Prophetstown, Ill., and created a new division: Powder Coaters LLC....

Trimac to build finishing line for Rock Island Arsenal

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Finishing

Trimac Industrial Systems LLC, Bonner Springs, Kan., has been awarded a military contract from the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing &...

ITSA, TSS team up to promote thermal spray to industry

Published: January 12, 2010
Tech Cell: Finishing

The International Thermal Spray Association (ITSA), Fairport Harbor, Ohio, and the ASM Thermal Spray Society (TSS), Mateirals Park, Ohio, have...

Dörken names global fastener technical specialist

Published: December 15, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

Dörken Corp. USA, the Grass Lake, Mich.-based North American unit of Dörken MKS-Systeme GmbH, Herdecke, Germany, has appointed Ron Strong to the...

Elgin Fastener Group names VP of manufacturing

Published: November 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Assembly, Finishing, For Engineers

Elgin Fastener Group (EFG), Versailles, Ind., has promoted Phil King to the position of vice president of manufacturing. In this position, he...

Trimac appoints brand manager

Published: November 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

Trimac Industrial Systems LLC, Kansas City, Kan., has appointed Scott Fouts to the position of Kemac® brand manager. He has 15 years of sales...

GREENKOTE authorizes license agreement with Eco-Tech Coatings

Published: November 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

Eco-Tech Coatings LLC has purchased a license from GREENKOTE® Plc, Cleveland, to apply the GREENKOTE thermodiffusion coating process to its...

GREENKOTE expands production in Germany

Published: October 13, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

GREENKOTE® Plc, a global coating technology company with headquarters in Cleveland, has expanded production at its location in Sauerlach,...

SMP installs polisher/grinder

Published: August 11, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

Specialty Metals Processing Inc. (SMP), a toll processor of nonferrous metal in Stow, Ohio, has installed a custom-built, 72-in.-wide wet...

Katana Industries installs surface prep systems

Published: August 11, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

Katana Industries Inc., Burlington, Ont., has installed a Wheelabrator 10-ft. plate machine and a Wheelabrator full-recovery airblast room at its...

DISA/Wheelabrator merge, announce new name

Published: August 11, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

DISA and Wheelabrator have merged, and their parent organization has announced a new name: Norican Group. The company, located in Herlev,...

CenterLine (Windsor) Ltd. hires account manager

Published: July 14, 2009
Tech Cell: Fab Stories, Finishing

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

Lincoln Industries names vice president

Published: July 14, 2009
Tech Cell: Fab Stories, Finishing

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

Michigan Seamless Tube adds UV coating line

Published: July 14, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing, Metals/Materials, Tube and Pipe Production

Michigan Seamless Tube, a producer of carbon and alloy seamless cold-drawn pipe and tube, has added a new UV coating line to its South Lyon,...

LISSMAC opens U.S. headquarters

Published: June 2, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing, Materials Handling

LISSMAC GmbH of Bad Wurzach, Germany, a manufacturer and distributor of construction machinery; special purpose equipment, including SBM sheet...

Haven, SOCO form strategic alliance

Published: May 21, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing, Materials Handling, Shearing, Tube and Pipe Production

Haven Mfg. Corp., Brunswick, Ga., a manufacturer of tube processing machines, has formed a strategic alliance with SOCO Machinery Co., Ltd. of...

ATI purchases Speedeburr product line

Published: May 12, 2009
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics, Finishing

ATI Industrial Automation, an engineering-based developer of robotic peripheral equipment, has completed the purchase of the Speedeburr product...

MetoKote Corp. marks 40 years in coatings market

Published: May 12, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

MetoKote Corp., Lima, Ohio, is celebrating 40 years as a provider of protective coating application services including electrocoating (e-coat),...

Industrial Hard Chrome achieves ISO 9001 registration

Published: May 12, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

Industrial Hard Chrome has achieved ISO 9001:2000 registration for its cold finishing, hard-chrome plating, and induction hardening of steel bar...

Wheelabrator, DISA complete merger

Published: May 6, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

DISA Group, a supplier of moulding, sand and core technologies and metal surface finishing systems, has merged with Wheelabrator Group, a provider...

Paulo Products Co. names quality engineer

Published: April 14, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

Paulo Products Co. has appointed Bart Stoessel as quality engineer at its St. Louis facility. In this position, he leads the quality management...

B.L. Downey Co. names quality assurance manager

Published: March 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

B.L. Downey Co. LLC, Broadview, Ill., has named Richard L. Metcalf as its quality assurance manager. Metcalf has been with the company since...

Specialty Metals Processing hires VP of sales

Published: March 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

Specialty Metals Processing, Stow, Ohio, has hired Thomas R. Schmitt as vice president of sales. He has been in the industry since 1975, when he...

Kowalski Heat Treating names VP of operations

Published: February 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Finishing

David Lorenz has been promoted to vice president of operations – corporate metallurgist at Kowalski Heat Treating, Cleveland. In this...

FMA launches sheet metal operator certification program

Published: December 16, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing, For CEOs, For Engineers, Laser Cutting, Press Technology, Punching, Sawing, Shearing, Shop Strategies

The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl. (FMA), Rockford, Ill., has announced a new certification program for precision sheet metal...

MetoKote adds strategic account manager

Published: November 11, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing, For CEOs

MetoKote Corp. Inc., Lima, Ohio, a provider of metal finishing processes including electrocoating, powder coating, and liquid paint, has announced...

Main Steel transfers ownership of Mexico City operations

Published: November 11, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing, Metals/Materials

Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc., Tinton Falls, N.J., a national toll processor, has announced the transfer of ownership of its Mexico City operation...

Paulo Products company names plant manager

Published: November 11, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing

Paulo Products Co. has named Bob Innes as plant manager of its St. Louis facility. The facility offers production heat treating in batch and...

Worldwide Superabrasives adds regional sales manager

Published: October 14, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing

Dan Herzog has joined Worldwide Superabrasives, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a supplier of grinding products, as the company's regional sales manager...

MetoKote opens eighth facility in Mexico

Published: October 14, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing

MetoKote Corp., Lima, Ohio, has opened a new facility in San Luis Potos, SLP, Mexico. This is the eighth facility in Mexico for the company, which...

Main Steel Polishing increases capabilities

Published: October 14, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing, Metals/Materials

Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc., has announced additions to its plant in Bartlett, Ill. The additions will increase the capacity of the company's...

Weiler Corp. announces staff appointments

Published: September 16, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing

Weiler Corp., Cresco, Pa., has promoted Chris Weiler to president and COO and added Jim McDaniel as vice president of sales and marketing. Weiler...

Acme Mfg. opens India office, names business development manager

Published: August 12, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing

Acme Mfg. Co., Auburn Hills, Mich., a designer and integrator of automated polishing, buffing, deburring, and grinding systems, has opened an...

Unist names national sales manager

Published: June 17, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables, Finishing

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...

Main Steel names general manager of Wheeling facility

Published: June 17, 2008
Tech Cell: Finishing

Main Steel Polishing, Tinton Falls, N.J., has promoted Albert Orengo to general manager of its facility in Wheeling, Ill. Orengo, who has worked...