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Shop Management - Page 33
- From The Fabricator
2023 metal fabrication forecast: Reshoring gets real for manufacturers
- By Tim Heston
- Dec 19, 2022
- Article
Although talk of a 2023 recession pervades mass media, metal fabricators don’t expect a significant slowdown. The data supports their view. Much of that has come from real evidence of reshoring and nearshoring across the manufacturing sector.
- From The Fabricator
Better structural fabrication starts with good information
- By Tim Heston
- Dec 17, 2022
- Article
A shop with the latest and greatest technology can fabricate a job extraordinarily quickly. That makes having the right information even more important. This is where good project management and documentation come into play.
- From The Fabricator
Preparedness is the best medicine for any metal fabrication shop
The best medicine for a metal fabricating company hit with absences related to illnesses is preparation.
- From The Fabricator
Illinois brothers bring metal, wood together with office furniture
- By Rafael Guerrero
- Dec 16, 2022
- Article
Two Chicago-area brothers combine metal fabrication and woodworking to make custom office furniture at iRCustom.
- From The Fabricator
Hinckley Yachts to pay off employees’ boat-building education loans
- Dec 16, 2022
- News Release
Maine-based Hinckley Yachts has announced it will pay off federal education loans for graduates of The Landing School, a boat-building school in Arundel, Maine, as an incentive to join the company.
- From The Fabricator
Report finds manufacturers’ optimism continues to decline as potential economic recession looms
- Dec 15, 2022
- News Release
The latest “Sikich Industry Pulse: Manufacturing and Distribution” found that only 49% of manufacturers rated their optimism about business prospects over the next six months at a seven or higher on a scale of one to 10.
- From The Fabricator
ITI names field representatives
- Dec 15, 2022
- News Release
The International Training Institute (ITI), Falls Church, Va., has named Darek Scarlavai and Joshua Moore as field representatives.
- From The Fabricator
KettleTag Plus EZ ID tag from InfoSight withstands galvanizing
- Dec 15, 2022
- Product Release
InfoSight has introduced the KettleTag Plus EZ, a metal bar code tag for the identification of galvanized steel.
- From The Fabricator
How character shapes leaders in the metal fabrication shop
- By Tim Heston
- Dec 13, 2022
- Article
When most people talk about the manufacturing labor shortage, they don’t talk about skills. They talk about work ethic and an eagerness to learn. They talk about character—and as it turns out, character can be developed.
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres plants receive Nadcap 24-month merit status
- Dec 13, 2022
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres has announced its Warren, Mich., and Hermitage, Pa., facilities have been awarded Nadcap merit status for vacuum heat treating and brazing.
- From The Fabricator
Rocklin’s portable MobiLase Battery brings industrial fiber marking to the part
- Dec 13, 2022
- Product Release
Rocklin Manufacturing has introduced the MobiLase Battery, a battery-powered version of its all-in-one, portable fiber laser marking unit housed in a 45-lb. rolling suitcase.
- From The Fabricator
Stewart Tool to build manufacturing plant in Virginia
- Dec 12, 2022
- News Release
Stewart Tool Co. Inc., a Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based prototype to production manufacturer, will invest $9.1 million to establish its first East Coast manufacturing operation in Troy, Va.
- From The Fabricator
GCX acquires Jaco
- Dec 12, 2022
- News Release
GCX Mounting Solutions, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity and a manufacturer of mounting and mobility systems for health care applications, has acquired Jaco Inc.
- From The Fabricator
The hidden cost drivers and overlooked details of structural steel fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Dec 12, 2022
- Article
Less weight doesn’t always mean less money. Tim Bradshaw of Owen Steel Co., Columbia, S.C., discusses the overlooked details that can increase structural steel fabrication costs.
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres of Michigan appoints sales manager
- Dec 8, 2022
- News Release
Warren, Mich.-based Solar Atmospheres Michigan has hired Chris Molencupp as sales manager. He has more than 30 years of experience in vacuum heat treating.
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