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Report reveals additive manufacturing, 3-D printing trends
Wohlers Associates Inc., Fort Collins, Colo., has released the Wohlers Report 2013, its annual analysis of additive manufacturing (AM) and 3-D...
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Metalloid products approved at Nissan
Metalloid Corp., Sturgis, Mich., has been granted Nissan approval for two metal forming lubricants. ADDVANCE 6580 (botanical lubricant) and...
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ANSI approves new RIA robot safety standard
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved a new U.S. national robot safety standard. Developed by Robotic Industries...
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Marlin Steel receives Inner City Award
Marlin Steel Wire Products, a Baltimore-based manufacturer of industrial material handling containers, has been selected for the second straight...
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Lincoln Electric receives presidential award for exports
The U.S. Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank has presented Lincoln Electric, Cleveland, with the President's "E" Award for Exports....
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Hexagon Metrology launches online technical support center
Hexagon Metrology, North Kingstown, R.I., has established the Hexagon Metrology Support Center, an online portal at...
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Camfil APC opens U.K. manufacturing facility
Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC), Jonesboro, Ark., a manufacturer of dust and fume collection equipment, has opened a 40,000-sq.-ft. facility in...
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Precision Metal Industries receives Preferred Supplier designation from Lockheed Martin
Precision Metal Industries (PMI), a precision manufacturer of missile containers, cabinets, enclosures, and assemblies in Pompano Beach, Fla., has...
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Genesis Systems Group wins 2013 Small Business Excellence Award
Genesis Systems Group, a robotic workcell integrator in Davenport, Iowa, has received a 2013 Small Business Excellence Award in the 51-250...
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Reliance Steel CEO named MSCI chairman
The Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), Rolling Meadows, Ill., has elected David H. Hannah, chairman and CEO of Reliance Steel & Aluminum...
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Advanced Technical Finishing continues $10 million facility renovation
Advanced Technical Finishing (ATF) is adding 16,000 sq. ft. to its surface treatment facility in Huntsville, Ala.
The $10 million...
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Enerfab to expand Enersteel operations
Enerfab has announced plans to invest more than $11 million to expand its Enersteel steel plate fabrication operations in Natchez, Miss....
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Morphy founds Excella Technologies
Tube hydroforming industry veteran Gary Morphy has founded Excella Technologies, Cambridge, Ont., a company he started to provide part and tool...
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Universal Tube & Rollform launches new website
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., Perrysburg, Ohio, has launched a redesigned website at www.utubeonline.com. The site provides...
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Synalloy's Bristol Metals subsidiary files antidumping petitions
Synalloy Corp., Spartanburg, S.C., a holding company owning subsidiaries that engage in a number of diverse business activities including the...
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PECo wins 2013 Better Business Bureau Eclipse Integrity Award
PECo, Tipp City, Ohio, has received the Better Business Bureau's Eclipse Integrity Award in the 100+ employee category. The awards honor...
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Fronius USA hires sales/application engineer
Fronius USA LLC, Portage, Ind., a manufacturer of welding equipment, has hired Kevin Barton as sales/application engineer working out of the...
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API product-maker installs Thermatool machines
Thermatool Corp., East Haven, Conn., has announced that a North American producer of API products has completed the installation of a...
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SME launches digital learning resource
Tooling U-SME, a company of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Dearborn, Mich., has launched Knowledge Edge, an online, multimedia,...
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Schuler Automation shows transfer systems in operation
Visitors from Germany and abroad attended a Technology Day held by Schuler Automation in Hessdorf, Germany, in mid-April. As well as receiving...
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Kobe Aluminum to expand in Kentucky
Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products (KAAP) LLC has begun construction on an 87,000-sq.-ft. expansion to its advanced manufacturing facility in...
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ESAB wins 2013 sales and customer service award
ESAB Cutting Systems, a provider of welding filler metals, equipment, and accessories in Florence, S.C., has been awarded the 2013 Gold Stevie...
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Phillips Service Industries announces passing of Bill Phillips, founder
Phillips Service Industries Inc. (PSI), a privately held global manufacturing and services holding company, has announced the death of its...
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Pillar Induction delivers heating system for austenitizing pipe
Pillar Induction, Brookfield, Wis., has commissioned a new 11.8-MW induction heating installation at a pipe producer in the southwestern U.S. The...
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Böhler-Uddeholm opens PVD coating center in Ontario
Böhler-Uddeholm has opened a new PVD coating facility at the Thermo-Tech thermal processing location in Mississauga, Ont. The 9,000-sq.-ft....
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Mestek announces passing of John E. Reed, CEO
Mestek Inc., Cleveland, has announced that John E. Reed, chairman of the board and CEO, died May 9, 2013.
Reed began his career with The H. B....
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Prima Power Laserdyne posts video presentation on fiber laser drilling
Prima Power Laserdyne, Champlin, Minn., has posted online a 45-min. presentation on the use of fiber lasers for hole drilling. It summarizes...
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United Performance Metals names account manager
United Performance Metals, Hamilton, Ohio, has named Karen Gaillard to the position of account manager for its La Mirada, Calif., branch. She has...
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SigmaTEK launches new website
SigmaTek Systems LLC, a provider of CAD/CAM nesting and manufacturing process automation in Cincinnati, has announced the launch of...
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Menges Roller expands capacity with CNC lathe
Menges Roller, Wauconda, Ill., has installed a Toolmex TUR930-1100MN CNC lathe capable of manufacturing industrial rollers up to 20 ft. long...
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Industrial Innovations adds Manufacturing Technology as distributor
Industrial Innovations, Wyoming, Mich., has announced the addition of Manufacturing Technology LLC (M-Tech), Pelham, Ala., as a distributor for...
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ESAB launches CNC cutting blog
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, Florence, S.C., has launched a blog for the CNC cutting community at www.esab-cutting.com. ESAB Edge, The CNC...
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Elgin Fastener Group names new Cleveland GM
Elgin Fastener Group (EFG), Batesville, Ind., has announced the appointment of Carl Ondraka as general manager-Cleveland Operations, with...
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Colson Caster receives $28,000 from Entergy Arkansas
Colson Caster, a provider of caster and wheel products in Monette, Ark., has received a $28,021 incentive check from the Entergy Arkansas Inc....
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ConXtech's steel fab facility earns CWB certification
ConXtech® has announced that the manufacturing team at its steel fabrication facility in Hayward, Calif., has been certified by the Canadian...
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Kammetal fabricates One World Trade Center spire with TRUMPF laser
On May 10, 2013, the spire for One World Trade Center was permanently installed in New York City. The 40-ft. top of the spire was fabricated...
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Victor contests recognize users of oxyfuel, plasma cutting equipment
Victor Technologies™, St. Louis, has launched two contests as part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of its Victor® brand of...
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CEO, chief technology officer leaving ABB
ABB's CEO Joe Hogan has announced his decision to leave the company for private reasons. He joined the company as CEO in September 2008. He will...
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Cincinnati Incorporated redesigns website
Cincinnati Incorporated, Cincinnati, has launched a new website at www.e-ci.com highlighting its products and services, including equipment,...
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Egan earns Elite Award in west Michigan competition
Mechanical contractor and fabricator Andy J. Egan Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., has been honored with its third Elite Award in West Michigan's 101...
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MidWest Materials named finalist for Steel Service Center of the Year
American Metal Market (AMM) has named MidWest Materials, Perry, Ohio, as a finalist in the Steel Service Center of the Year category of its...
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Ram-Fab awarded additional $6 million contract on international project
Synalloy Corp., Spartanburg, S.C., a holding company owning subsidiaries that engage in a number of diverse business activities including the...
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Sunstone Components Group signs letter of intent to sell company
Sunstone Components Group, a provider of precision metal stamping and insert injection moldings in Temecula, Calif., has signed a letter of intent...
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Pacific Software to acquire A&F Conveyors Ltd.
Pacific Software Inc., Toronto, has entered into an agreement to acquire A&F Conveyors Ltd., a metal fabrication company in Bolton, Ont....
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Michigan manufacturers recognized for service to community, industry
The Michigan Manufacturers Association (MMA), Lansing, Mich., has named the winners of its 2013 John G. Thodis Michigan Manufacturer of the Year...
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Colorado WaterJet named finalist in Colorado Companies to Watch
Colorado WaterJet (CWJ), an abrasive waterjet shape cutting job shop in Berthoud, Colo., has been recognized as a Colorado Companies to Watch...
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Indiana Pickling and Processing to complete $7 million capitalization project
Feralloy Corp. has announced that Indiana Pickling and Processing (IPPC), Portage, Ind., its joint venture with Signode Corp., will complete a $7...
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Advanced manufacturing research conference slated for June 10-14 in Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host an advanced manufacturing research conference June 10-14, 2013, drawing nearly 500 academic,...
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Fronius USA names area sales manager
Fronius USA LLC, Portage, Ind., a manufacturer of welding equipment, recently promoted Vadim Nakonechnyy to area sales manager for the...
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Greenerd delivers press to Global Parts Network
Greenerd Press & Machine Co. Inc., Nashua, N.H., has designed, built, and delivered a 1,000-ton hydraulic coining press to Global Parts...
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