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Dayton Progress named to Quality Leadership 100 list

Published: March 15, 2010
Tech Cell: Tool and Die

Dayton Progress has been named to the Quality Leadership 100 list of companies for 2010 by Quality magazine. The company placed 89th out of...

Green Steel conference to focus on environmental sustainability

Published: March 15, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

Steel Business Briefing, Pittsburgh, is hosting its first Green Steel conference, focusing on environmental sustainability in the global steel...

Solar Mfg. adds sales support in Pacific Northwest

Published: March 15, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

Solar Mfg. Inc., Souderton, Pa., has formed an agreement with Kelly LeBard, owner of Hartley Sales Corp., to provide sales representation in the...

United Performance Metals approved for laser processing of GE parts

Published: March 15, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

United Performance Metals, a supplier of specialty stainless steel and high-temperature alloys in Hamilton, Ohio, has received special process...

Fabricating facility offered for sale in South Carolina

Published: March 15, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

Heavy fabricators have the opportunity to purchase a turnkey facility in Clarendon County, S.C. The building is equipped and tailored for a heavy...

HRB prices rise

Published: March 10, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ United States HRB spot price for March 8 surged 5.4 percent to $706 per metric ton, FOB the mill, for the...

Kimberly Clark invites metal manufacturers to enter FAT BOB™ motorcycle sweepstakes

Published: March 8, 2010
Tech Cell: Safety

Kimberly-Clark Professional has launched a nationwide promotion inviting metal manufacturing professionals to enter a sweepstakes for a chance to...

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 &...

M&M Mfg. hires VP of commercial business development

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

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

Simufact Eng., Presstec Pressentechnologie form partnership

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: CAD/CAM Software

Simufact Eng. GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, a provider of software and services for bulk metal forming, and Presstec Pressentechnologie GmbH, a provider...

T&H Lemont hires sales, marketing manager

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Roll Forming

T&H Lemont, Countryside, Ill., has hired Martin W. Byrne as manager of domestic sales and marketing. In this position, he formulates marketing and...

AGT, Roboweld sign joint venture

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Welding

AGT of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, and Roboweld Inc. of Burnaby, B.C., have signed a joint venture to advance market exposure and adoption of robotic...

SME recognizes young leaders

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

SME has announced the winners of the 2010 Society of Manufacturing Engineers Richard E. Morley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. The...

Quality Tool adds turret punch/laser

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

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

Globe Specialty Metals reopens Alabama facility

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

Globe Specialty Metals Inc., New York, has reopened its Selma, Ala., silicon metal and ferrosilicon alloys facility, which it had idled during the...

Hydro Aluminum hires regional sales and technical manager

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

Hydro's Metal Markets North America, Linthicum, Md., has added Greg Lea to its commercial team as regional sales and technical manager for the...

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....

METALCON International 2010 to be held in October

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

The 20th annual METALCON International Conference and Exhibition for metal construction products and technologies will be held Oct. 20-22, 2010,...

Behringer Saws names Hicks Machine Tool as Distributor of the Year

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Cutting

Behringer Saws, a provider of automatic band sawing machines and material handling systems in Morgantown, Pa., has announced that Hicks Machine...

Sandmeyer Steel announces retirement of inside sales rep after 46 years of service

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

Loretta B. Wysocki will retire from Sandmeyer Steel Co., Philadelphia, after 46 years of service. She joined the company on April 14, 1964, as a...

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,...

Worthington acquires Gibraltar's steel processing assets

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

Worthington Industries Inc., Columbus, Ohio, has announced that its steel processing business segment has acquired the steel processing assets of...

TECHNI Waterjet names Hegman Machine Tool as distributor

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Cutting

TECHNI Waterjet ™, Lenexa, Kan., has announced that Hegman Machine Tool Inc. is distributing its 2- and 3-D waterjet cutting machinery in...

FMA, TPA seek applicants for industry awards

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

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

Criterion NDT formed to provide NDT testing products, services

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Testing and Measuring

The new company Criterion NDT Inc. has opened in Auburn, Wash., providing eddy current NDT instruments, probes, and services for testing critical...

ASTM revises steel sheet standards

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

ASTM Intl. Committees A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys and A05 on Metallic-Coated Iron and Steel Products, W. Conshohocken, Pa.,...

Feralloy Corp. announces personnel changes

Published: March 5, 2010
Tech Cell: Stamping

Carlos Rodríguez Borjas has been promoted to executive vice president and COO of Feralloy Corp., Chicago. For the past 11 years, he has served...

Plasma Automation appoints Westway Machinery exclusive sales representative for Eastern Canada

Published: March 3, 2010
Tech Cell: Cutting

Plasma Automation Inc. and sister company, Vicon Machinery LLC, have appointed Westway Machinery Ltd. as their exclusive sales representative...

Stamtec unveils expanded service network for North America

Published: March 1, 2010
Tech Cell: Stamping

Manchester, Tenn.-based Stamtec, a manufacturer of stamping presses, has certified several long-standing dealer partners as authorized service...

Stamtec announces promotion

Published: March 1, 2010
Tech Cell: Stamping

Manchester, Tenn.-based Stamtec, a manufacturer of stamping presses, has promoted Patrick Thomas to service manager. Thomas served as a senior...

NAM: Manufacturers call President Obama's $1 trillion health-care proposal 'disappointing'

Published: February 23, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

As President Obama offered his new health-care plan Feb. 22, National Association of Manufacturers President John Engler issued the following...

Lincoln Electric introduces pipeline welding productivity seminar

Published: February 17, 2010
Tech Cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication

Lincoln Electric is offering a day-long Pipeline Welding Productivity Seminar intended for pipeline industry professionals. The session takes...

Metal formers expect business conditions to remain fairly steady over next three months

Published: February 15, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

According to the February 2010 Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) Business Conditions Report, metal forming companies expect conditions to...

J&S Machine selected as U.S. distributor for Simasv's horizontal press product line

Published: February 15, 2010
Tech Cell: Stamping

J&S Machine Inc., Ellsworth, Wis., has entered into an agreement with Simasv srl of Thiene Italy to distribute the manufacturer's horizontal press...

Ohio governor visits Wayne Trail Technologies, commends company for helping its work force retool and stay current

Published: February 11, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

February 2, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland visited Wayne Trail Technologies in Fort Loramie, Ohio. Company officials took Strickland for a tour of...

M. K. Morse announces recent staff additions, changes

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Power Tools

M.K. Morse, Canton, Ohio, has hired Philip Metz to the position of industrial division sales director for Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is...

Wall Colmonoy hires corporate controller

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

Wall Colmonoy, a manufacturer of high-temperature brazing and coating alloys in Madison Heights, Mich., has hired Randy Buoy as corporate...

Lucas-Milhaupt launches new Web site

Published: Array
Tech Cell: Welding

Lucas-Milhaupt, a Handy & Harman Co. in Milwaukee, has established a newly designed Web site at www.lucasmilhaupt.com. It includes a knowledge...

Chrysler to invest in Michigan engine plant

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

Fiat SpA has announced that it will build a new, more fuel-efficient engine for Fiat and Chrysler vehicles at a plant in Dundee, Mich., near...

New standards released for metal powder testing, bearings

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Metals/Materials

New 2010 editions of two powder metallurgy (PM) standards have been issued by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF). The 130-page...

JETCAM signs new distributors for Syria, Lebanon

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: CAD/CAM Software

JETCAM Intl. s.a.r.l., Monaco, has named two new distributors for its CAM, nesting, and automation products in Lebanon and Syria. Kessmeyan...

LAI launches upgraded Web site

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

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

Structural welding design, specification seminars scheduled for spring

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Welding

The Steel Structures Technology Center, Howell, Mich., has announced its spring 2010 seminar on the design and specification of welding for...

Red Bud to host seminar in Belgium

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Stamping

Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, Ill., will host a coil processing seminar at the Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel, 1930 Zaventem, Brussels, Belgium,...

Scientific Dust Collectors expands manufacturing plant

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

Scientific Dust Collectors has completed the expansion of its manufacturing plant in Alsip, Ill. The expansion — which includes another...

AIDA-America expands distributor network

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Stamping

AIDA-America, Dayton, Ohio, has added three distributors to its North American sales network. PTW Sales LLC, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is distributor...

Jervis B. Webb Co. hires president, co-CEO

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Materials Handling

Jervis B. Webb Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Daifuku Co. Ltd. and provider of material handling systems, has announced the appointment of...

D&S Mfg. installs wire mesh belt blaster

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

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

nexAir relocates Atlanta-area branch

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Welding

Memphis-based atmospheric gases and welding distributor nexAir has relocated its Atlanta branch to Suwanee, Ga. In May 2008 nexAir acquired...

Ohio Laser earns ISO 9001:2008 certification

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Shop Management

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