Lincoln Electric introduces pipeline welding productivity seminar
Lincoln Electric is offering a day-long Pipeline Welding Productivity Seminar intended for pipeline industry professionals. The session takes...
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Unison receives all-electric tube bender order from BAE Systems
Unison, Scarborough, U.K., has received an order from BAE Systems Surface Ships for a large tube bending machine to support ongoing projects,...
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Rafter Equipment now selling Takeco equipment
Rafter Equipment Corp., Strongsville, Ohio, has formed a strategic alliance with Takeco Co. Ltd. of South Korea to sell and service Takeco's strip...
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Harco receives ISO 9001 certification
Harco Metal Products, Tempe, Ariz., has received ISO 9001 certification. The company supplies fabricated tubular design, components, and...
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Tubotech 2009 attracts 16,500 visitors to Brazil
At Tubotech 2009, 5th International Tube, Fittings and Components Fair, in Sao Paulo, more than 16,500 visitors came to see 320 companies from 15...
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American Piping expands in Houston, hires CFO in St. Louis
American Piping Products has expanded its Houston facility with a new sales and operations headquarters. The company is a supplier of heavy-wall...
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Unison supplies all-electric tube bending machine to Boeing
Unison, located in Scarsborough, U.K., has supplied a second all-electric tube bending machine to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. The Breeze...
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Harco Metal Products purchases state-of-the-art equipment
Harco Metal Products (Harco), Tempe, Ariz., a provider of tube fabrication, systems integration, and seamless manufacturing, has announced the...
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BLM Group appoints VP
BLM Group USA, Wixom, Mich., has appointed John P. Ovsek as vice president. He is responsible for all equipment sales and after-sales service of...
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Mathey Dearman hires VP of sales, marketing
Mathey Dearman Inc., Tulsa, Okla., has hired Charles G. Lutz as vice president of sales and marketing—Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin...
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L.B. Foster, Lally Pipe & Tube joint venture to manufacture precision pipe couplings
L.B. Foster Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., has announced a newly formed joint venture between three partners, Kentucky-based Lally Pipe & Tube, L.B....
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Frost & Sullivan recognizes ESAB as 'Best Partner for Welding & Cutting Systems for Energy Generation'
Frost & Sullivan has presented its '2009 Global Best Partners Welding & Cutting Systems for Energy Generation Award' to ESAB. In 2009, the company...
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Harco acquires new technologies
Harco Metal Products, a tube fabricator with facilities in Tempe, Ariz., and Fort Payne, Ala., has announced that it has procured several new...
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Pines and Gregson sign distribution agreement
Tube bending equipment provider Pines Technology, Westlake, Ohio, has announced a distribution agreement with Gregson Induction Benders Ltd., a...
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TRUMPF presents award to distributor
TRUMPF Inc. presented a 2009 award of sales achievement to ICON Machine Tool Inc. at its annual distributor meeting held in July at the company's...
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Tube India Intl. returns in 2010
Tube India International 2010—The All-Indian Exhibition and Conference for the Tube and Pipe Industries—will be held at the Bombay...
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COMEQ appointed exclusive distributor for PARMIGIANI bending rolls
COMEQ Inc., White Marsh, Md., has been appointed PARMIGIANI's exclusive distributor for the U.S. and Canada and by listing in Mexico. PARMIGIANI...
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GKN Aerospace adds tube bending machines for complex parts
GKN Aerospace has installed Unison all-electric, combined left- and right-hand bending machines at its wing component operation in Filton, U.K....
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FMA and TPA seek applicants for industry awards
The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl. (FMA) and the Tube & Pipe Association, Intl. (TPA) seek applicants for two industry awards....
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New services brochure available
Manchester Tool & Die Inc. offers a new 4-page brochure detailing its steel fabricating and production machining services, as well as the...
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Bardons & Oliver launches machinery rebuilding, retrofitting pages on Web site
Bardons & Oliver, Solon, Ohio, a manufacturer of CNC turning systems and tube and bar cutoff equipment, has launched two new sections of its Web...
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ESCO Tools founder dies
Albert T. Brennan, who purchased the Evans Supply Co. in Winchester, Mass., in 1975, later renamed the firm ESCO Tools, and built it into a...
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Lomar Machine & Tool recognized by Eaton Corp.
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corp. honored 38 premier suppliers last month as part of the company's supplier recognition program....
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Aristo Machines partners with Manchester Tool & Die
Aristo Machines Inc., Indianapolis, a manufacturer of tube end forming systems, has announced a partnership with Manchester Tool & Die Inc. (MTD),...
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STI/SPFA awards Pipeline Project of the Year
The Steel Tank Institute/Steel Plate Fabricators Association (STI/SPFA) named two of its members as recipients of the national Pipeline Project of...
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RathGibson names vice president of sales and marketing
RathGibson, Lincolnshire, Ill., has appointed Kirk Thorne to the position of vice president – sales and marketing. Thorne, who has 25 years...
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QY Group-China opens Tritube USA
QY Group-China has opened Tritube USA in Baytown, Texas, the group's first manufacturing venture in the U.S. The manufacturing facility has four...
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Fraser Steel bucks economic downturn by investing in big equipment
Fraser Steel, Albertville, Minn., a designer and manufacturer of precision tubular parts, recently acquired a large-capacity rotary draw bender....
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RathGibson opens Buenos Aires office
Lincolnshire, Ill.-based RathGibson, a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing, has...
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Bender improves product design flexibility and reduces lead time
Sharpe Products, New Berlin, Wis., offers enhanced capabilities with its NISSIN 3-D bender. With this machine, tube is guided continuously...
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High-precision inspection/measuring system ensures part quality
Sharpe Products, New Berlin, Wis., a provider of custom pipe/tube bending and fabricating services, uses a Tube Inspect S optical tube measuring...
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Tube Southeast Asia returns to Bangkok
From Oct. 13 to 15, 2009, Tube Southeast Asia - International Tube & Pipe Trade Fair for Southeast Asia - will be held in Bangkok for the second...
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Scott Process Systems Inc. completes three-year ASME recertification
Scott Process Systems Inc., Hartville, Ohio, announced that it has successfully completed the recertification of its full slate of American...
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ESCO Tool moves to new building
ESCO Tool has acquired and refurbished a 60,000-sq.-ft. building in Holliston, Mass. The company has been located in nearby Medfield, Mass., since...
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Roll-Kraft earns ISO recertification
Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, has participated in a surveillance audit of its ISO quality management system and, for the fourth consecutive year, has...
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Triumph Tube to open new manufacturing facility in South Carolina
The South Carolina Department of Commerce, Orangeburg County Development Commission, and the Central S.C. Alliance have announced that Triumph...
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TUBOTECH 2009 to be held in Brazil
TUBOTECH, 5th International Tube, Fittings and Components trade fair will be staged at the Centro de Exposicoes Imigrantes in São Paulo, Brazil,...
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Indalex honored as Good Corporate Citizen for environmental practices
The Indalex Inc. aluminum extrusion facility at City of Industry, Calif., has been awarded a Certificate of Recognition and been named a Good...
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Wagner Companies hires manager of production control
The Wagner Companies, a manufacturer of handrail fittings and metal products in Milwaukee, has announced that Jackie Heinrichs has returned to the...
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Mayville Engineering to purchase assets of Fabricating Specialists
Mayville Eng. Co. (MEC), a contract manufacturer in Mayville, Wis., has acquired the assets of Fabricating Specialists LLC, a manufacturer of...
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Ohio Gratings expands with new division
Ohio Gratings Inc., Canton, Ohio, has announced a new division of its company, called OGi Architectural Metal Solutions. The division has been...
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Hobart Institute expands training area
Hobart Institute of Welding Technology, Troy, Ohio, has added 8,000 sq. ft. of training area to include two additional, large classrooms and lab...
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Xiris names Kent Corp. as sales agent
Xiris Automation Inc. has announced that Kent Corp., North Royalton, Ohio, is the exclusive North American sales agent for the Zume product...
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TRUMPF Canada names managing director
TRUMPF Inc., Farmington, Conn., has appointed James Rogowski as managing director of TRUMPF Canada. The company recently acquired the remaining...
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AddisonMckee launches e-commerce product for perishable bending, end-forming tools
AddisonMckee, Lebanon, Ohio, has added an e-commerce product called ExpressTools™ to its Web site at www.addisonmckee.com. The e-commerce...
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Kinkelder names vice president
Kinkelder USA, Rockford, Ill., an importer of steel circular sawing products, has added Mike Rans as vice president. Rans has a background in...
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Bosch Rexroth opens new facility
Bosch Rexroth Corp., Hoffman Estates, Ill., recently opened a new facility, Tech Center East, in Rochester Hills, Mich. Tech Center East is...
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Al Fajer Information, Messe Düsseldorf announce dates for Tekno/Tube Arabia 2009
Tekno/Tube Arabia: 9th International Trade Fair for Industrial Machinery, Metalworking, Machine Tools, Dies/Molds, Tubes, and Pipes is scheduled...
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AddisonMckee selected as a winner of Progressive Manufacturing 50 awards
AddisonMckee, Lebanon, Ohio, was named as a winner of the fourth annual Progressive Manufacturing 50 awards, selected by Managing Automation , a...
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Hobart Institute releases instructional programs for pipe GTAW
"Gas Tungsten Arc Welding of 2-inch Pipe" provides a step-by-step explanation of how to weld mild steel pipe in the 2G, 5G, and 6G welding...
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Wauseon Machine & Mfg. distributes O+P products
Wauseon Machine & Mfg. (WMM) is the U.S. distributor of products from O+P, an Italian manufacturer of production hydraulic equipment.O+P...
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Wagner Companies announces promotions
The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, recently promoted Justin Wesser to manager of quality services and Patrick Hutchinson to the new position of...
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Warren Steel Holdings completes vacuum tank degasser
Warren Steel Holdings, Warren, Ohio, announced that it completed the hot commissioning of its vacuum tank degasser and related systems. The...
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Wagner adds quality supervisor
The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, a manufacturer of handrail fittings and metal products for architectural and industrial applications, recently...
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AWS acquires Mexican welding tradeshow
The American Welding Society (AWS), Miami, has entered into an agreement with Trade Show Consulting (TSC) to purchase Weldmex, the largest welding...
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AISI, STI/SPFA publish steel pipe design manual
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), Washington, D.C., and the Steel Tank Institute/Steel Plate Fabricators Association (STI/SPFA), Lake...
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FABTECH hosts 31,000 visitors, covers 461,627 sq. ft.
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show at McCormick Place in Chicago hosted more exhibiting companies and covered more exhibit...
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Messe Düsseldorf, ZAO Expocentr plan Tube Russia 2008
Tube Russia 2008, an international tube and pipe trade fair, is scheduled to run May 27–30 at the ZAO Exhibition Center in Moscow. The event...
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Eagle supplies pipe bending equipment for nuclear application
Eagle Precision Technologies Ltd., Brantford, Ont., a designer and manufacturer of tube bending and end forming products, recently supplied...
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Magnatech names sales director
Magnatech, East Granby, Conn., has hired Scott Anthony as director of sales and marketing for the Western Hemisphere. Anthony has more than 20...
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Ohio Gratings provides grating for Arundel Mills building
Ohio Gratings Inc. (OGI), Canton, Ohio, has provided aluminum LiteBar grating for use as a sunscreen above each window of the Arundel Mills...
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LAI named on Inc.list of fastest-growing companies
Inc. Magazine named LAI Intl. Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., a provider of contract manufacturing services, to its inaugural list of the 5,000...
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FABTECH Intl. & AWS Welding Show returns to Chicago
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show, the largest North American showcase of metal forming, fabricating, stamping, tube and...
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HMT Inc. appointed as exclusive U.S. distributor for CSM
Horn Machine Tools Inc. (HMT), Madera, Calif., has been appointed as the exclusive U.S. distributor for Chiao Sheng Machinery Co. Ltd. (CSM),...
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A&B Process Systems builds new manufacturing facility
A&B Process Systems Corp., Stratford, Wis., has begun construction of a 53,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility, the company's ninth. Incorporating...
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Veridiam acquires Allied Swiss Screw Products
Veridiam, San Diego, has acquired Allied Swiss Screw Products, Oceanside, Calif. Veridiam is a provider of EDM services; milled and turned...
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Unison completes environmental and quality accreditation
Unison, Scarborough, U.K., has achieved ISO 14001 certification for its environmental management system and ISO 9001 accreditation for its...
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Trio of tradeshows offers parallel staging, increased exhibit space
The parallel staging of Metallurgy-Litmash, Tube Russia, and Aluminium/Non-Ferrous 2007 offered 52,500 sq. ft. of exhibit space—50 percent...
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OMNI-X celebrates 20th anniversary
OMNI-X Inc., Englewood, Colo., celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Since 1987 the company has designed and manufactured consumable...
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Ohio Gratings hires architect specialist
Ohio Gratings Inc., Canton, Ohio, has hired Jason Richter as its architect specialist. Richter manages architectural sales accounts; monitors...
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Staging of 2008 Tube China announced
Messe Düsseldorf has announced the Shanghai New International Expo Center will host Tube China Sept. 23-26, 2008. Messe Düsseldorf...
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AddisonMckee wins manufacturing award
AddisonMckee, Lebanon, Ohio, has been awarded the World-Class Manufacturing Award as part of The Manufacturer Awards 2007. The Manufacturer is a...
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DoALL names specialty systems director
DoALL Sawing Products, Elk Grove Village, Ill., has named Don Klingstein as director of specialty systems. He is responsible for sales and support...
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UTE appoints sales manager
Universal Tool and Engineering Inc. (UTE), Johnson City, Tenn., has appointed Rick Ott as sales manager. He is responsible for national and...
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Prima to introduce resonator at June open house
Prima North America is holding an open house/laser seminar June 7, 2007, at its technology center in Chicopee, Mass. The company is introducing...
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BGL sells Western Pneumatic Tube
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company has sold Western Pneumatic Tube Co. (WPT), a portfolio company of Superior Group Inc., to Tinicum Capital Partners...
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Everett Industries celebrates 45 years in business
Everett Industries Inc., a Warren, Ohio-based producer of abrasive cutoff machines and wheels, is celebrating 45 years in business. Founded in...
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Interactive tube connector Web site launched
Parker Instrumentation has launched a Web site dedicated to its permanent tube connection technology for higher pressure applications, Phastite....
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Eagle Precision introduces new warranty program
Eagle Precision Technologies Ltd., a provider of tube bending and forming systems, has introduced a new 5-year warranty program. The warranty...
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Wagner hires process development engineer
The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, has hired Greg Krouse as process development engineer. Krouse is responsible for the development and continuous...
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L.S. Starrett establishes Illinois saw service center
The L.S. Starrett Co., Athol, Mass., has established a saw service center in Bensonville, Ill., which provides welded band saw blades to the...
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M.K. Morse hires national sales manager
Kent Hughes has been named national sales manager of industrial products for The M.K. Morse Co., Canton, Ohio. He directs the industrial sales...
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Bauer appoints sales/marketing director
Bauer Welding & Metal Fabricating, St. Paul, Minn., has named Bill Remes as director of sales and marketing. Remes has more than 20 years of...
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IPSCO, NS Group announce waiting-period expiration
IPSCO Inc. and NS Group Inc. have announced the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976,...
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TPJSymposium scheduled for March
The Tube & Pipe Association, Intl. (TPA), and its flagship magazine, TPJ – The Tube & Pipe Journal ®, announce their upcoming TPJ...
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Georg Fischer changes name
As a result of its acquisition by Chicago-based Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Georg Fischer Rohrverbindungstechnik GmbH, Singen, Germany, has...
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Tube, pipe trade fair sees increased attendance
Tube 2006, International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair, held in Düsseldorf, Germany, attracted 28,600 attendees, an increase of 7.5 percent compared...
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PTCAlliance emerges from Chapter 11
PTCAlliance Corp., Wexford, Pa., has completed the necessary steps to implement its prepackaged plan of reorganization and has successfully...
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Hess Industries launches Formitt Metal Labs
Hess Industries Inc., Niles, Mich., has announced the launch of Formitt Metal Labs, created specifically to support product development for a...
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Hayes adds to sales team
Hayes Intl., Rotorua, New Zealand, a member of The Bradbury Group of companies, has added Sean Wiebe to its U.S. sales team. Wiebe is based at the...
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Jancy Engineering hires director of market development
Jancy Engineering Inc., Davenport, Iowa, has named William Hildebrand as director of market development. Hildebrand focuses on opening untapped...
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Wayne Trail Technologies constructs new facility, enters new market segment
Wayne Trail Technologies, Fort Loramie, Ohio, has entered a new market segment and is constructing an additional, 30,000-sq.-ft. facility. The...
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Acrotech acquires Di-Acro
Acrotech Inc., Lake City, Minn., has acquired the Di-Acro product line and moved production back to Lake City, where the line was originally...
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Software earns magazine's No. 1 ranking
The AutoCAD® CD version 3.0 from Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, Charlotte, N.C., was ranked No. 1 on PM Engineer magazine's top 10 products...
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Actuant acquires D.L. Ricci
Actuant Corp., Milwaukee, has completed the purchase of D.L. Ricci Corp., Red Wing., Minn. Actuant consists of two groups of companies: Tools &...
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ITW purchases Georg Fischer Rohrverbindungstechnik GmbH
Georg Fischer Ltd., Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has announced it has sold its capital shares of Georg Fischer Rohrverbindungst echnik GmbH, Singen,...
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Hess Industries appoints president, CEO
Hess Industries Inc. has announced the appointment of David Zenger as president and CEO for all operations and business activities worldwide. The...
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Numalliance opens U.S. distributor
Numalliance has opened Numamerica, Davenport, Iowa, as its exclusive distributor for the U.S. Forged from an agreement with North American...
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Prima to hold open house
Prima North America is holding an open house May 23 - 24 at its Chicopee, Mass., Technology Center to debut its new Syncrono laser cutting...
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Macsteel Service Centers USA announces expansion
Macsteel Service Centers USA Inc., owned by the global steel company Macsteel Holdings of South Africa, has announced that it is constructing a...
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