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Blog Posts - Page 61
- From The Fabricator
The sunny side of energy savings
- By Dan Davis
- Oct 17, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Cres Cor, a manufacturer of commercial warming cabinets and other products for the food service industry, turns to the sun for some of its energy needs.
- From The Fabricator
Shame on you, Kobe
- By Vicki Bell
- Oct 12, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
The decisions that some corporations—and people—make and the actions they take simply boggle the mind. Kobe Steel’s data falsification has far-reaching consequences and begs the question: Whatever happened to ethics and accountability?
- From The Fabricator
New, lower tax rate for pass-through entities up for grabs
- By Stephen Barlas
- Oct 11, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
A pass-through entity is a business structure that allows a company to avoid income taxes at the corporate level but pay at the individual level as owners of the business. If President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans get their way, these businesses will be paying a lot less in taxes.
- From The Welder
Still Building America—The more you know, the farther you’ll go
- By Josh Welton
- Oct 10, 2017
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
Welder Caleb Holtrey recently participated in a Q&A with Josh Welton to discuss his career—how he became interested in welding and learned his craft—and his dreams for the future. Holtrey already is ahead of many in that he loves what he does.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing in the limelight
- By Vicki Bell
- Oct 6, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Today, Oct. 6, is National Manufacturing Day. If you’re visiting this site, you—yes, you—definitely have a stake in promoting manufacturing in the U.S. Let’s give the industry its due.
- From The Welder
Welding Hacks from the September/October 2017 issue of The WELDER
- Oct 5, 2017
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
Have you developed your own welding hacks to help you on the job? Share them with the audience of The WELDER, and you could earn a gift card!
- From The Fabricator
Metal, fire, and art … what’s not to like?
- By Josh Welton
- Oct 4, 2017
- Safety
- Blog Post
After three months repairing tanks in Iraq, Josh Welton was happy to return home. Taking a long road trip with his wife, he stumbled upon the National Ornamental Metal Museum, a treasure in Memphis that turned out to be one of the highlights of the trip. He will be back.
- From The Fabricator
Becoming an ‘irreplaceable employee’
- By Vicki Bell
- Sep 29, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
You have the hard skills. You can program machinery, weld, cut, bend, form, and finish with the best of them. Is your job secure? Maybe not. Soft skills and a good work ethic carry tremendous weight, especially in a small shop.
- From The Fabricator
Dizzying proliferation of auto players influences press expansion
- By Kate Bachman
- Sep 27, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
When one of the largest, most prominent, high-tech metal stamping press OEMs sites its annual conference at a lab devoted to plastic composites development for the automotive industry, it gives you pause. Then again, if a vacuum maker, a computer maker, and a search engine company can manufacture a car and an online commerce company can go into the grocery business, is it really such a stretch for a stamping manufacturer to produce plastic, compression-molded components on a hydraulic press?
- From The Fabricator
When pallets take over
- By Nick Martin
- Sep 26, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Housekeeping is just as vital, if not more so, to a shop as it is a home. Letting things pile up, both inside and out, creates eyesores, reflects poorly on the business, and even lowers employee morale. Look around. Maybe your shop has clutter issues, like mountains of old pallets, it needs to address.
- From The Fabricator
Flat-rolled Steel Inventory Index to provide clearer picture of demand
- By John Packard
- Sep 20, 2017
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Steel Market Update currently provides a look at “months of supply” of flat-rolled steel at steel service centers. A new effort is underway to drill down and focus on “days of inventory on hand.”
- From The Welder
Starting again
- By Amanda Carlson
- Sep 18, 2017
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
Practical Welding Today served the welding community in North America well for more than 20 years. The next chapter in this book starts with the September/October 2017 issue. The name of the book has been changed, however. Welcome to the world of The WELDER.
- From The Additive Report
A look into the future of manufacturing
- By Dan Davis
- Sep 18, 2017
- Additive Manufacturing
- Blog Post
A chat with futurist Jim Carroll indicates that fabricators should be open to embracing technological possibilities or risk being left behind.
- From The Fabricator
The real reason South Korea is being targeted
- By Stephen Barlas
- Sep 12, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Not only is President Donald Trump looking for a more aggressive stance from South Korea on dealing with North Korea, but he also wants to apply pressure as the U.S. looks to renegotiate the 5-year-old U.S.-Korea trade agreement.
- From The Fabricator
Don't forget steel users
- By Ed Youdell
- Sep 12, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
A coalition letter, co-signed by 15 manufacturing trade associations, including FMA, was sent to President Donald Trump, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Sept. 7. These associations urge the current administration to avoid any decision in connection with the Section 232 investigation that would do harm to steel manufacturing companies, their employees, and their customers.
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