The Hendrick group of companies has announced it has achieved ISO 9001:2015 at Hendrick Manufacturing of Carbondale, Pa.; Hendrick Metal Products, Elgin, Ill.; and Hendrick Screen Co., Owensboro, Ky. Hendrick Mfg. and Hendrick Metal Products are providers of perforated metals and high-precision...

Kloeckner Metals Corp. has announced that its Greenville, S.C., branch is the fifth to have been awarded an IATF 16949 management system certificate for processing flat-rolled steel, stainless, and aluminum, including slitting, cut-to-length, and configured blanks. The company’s other branches...

New York-based private equity firm Aterian Investment Partners has announced that one of its affiliates has acquired Pioneer Metal Finishing LLC. Pioneer, based in Green Bay, Wis., provides outsourced anodizing, plating, hardcoat, adhesive, electroless nickel, and other value-added surface treating...

Rosemont, Ill.-based MW Industries, a provider of springs, fasteners, and machined parts, has acquired Ameriflex Inc., a Corona, Calif., manufacturer of precision-formed metal bellows, flexible metal hoses, and metal flanges used in applications supporting the semiconductor, microelectronics, and...

The Lex Group, Chicago, has released the following statement by Lex Central President Bill Douglass regarding the ongoing debate on steel tariffs and Section 232: “Tariffs are generally not a preferred solution so long as the marketplace supports a fair and reasonable price that allows the...

Chicago-based metals and logistics company Union Partners has announced that Lee Steel, Berg Steel, JIT Steel Service, and JIT Steel Transport will operate as Maksteel, and Opus Metals will change its name to Mak Specialty Metals. Now combined, Maksteel further expands its services in...

Metals service center Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, has acquired all the issued and outstanding equity ownership interests of KMS Fab LLC in Luzerne, Pa., and KMS South Inc. in West Columbia, S.C. The companies offer precision sheet metal fabrication from prototypes to large...

Amada Miyachi America Inc., Monrovia, Calif., a manufacturer of resistance welding, laser welding, marking, cutting, and micromachining equipment and systems, has announced the appointment of Stephen F. Shea as southern regional sales manager. He provides sales and technical support for all...

The Cleveland-based Women in Manufacturing® (WiM) Association has announced the election of 19 members to its 2018 board of directors. The board is led by Chair Griselda Abousleman, vice president operational excellence, Transport Solutions NA/EMEA, Ingersoll Rand, Davidson, N.C. Additional board...

Switzerland-based Feintool Group has announced the acquisition of Germany-based Stanz- und LaserTechnik Jessen GmbH, a producer of high-precision electrical sheet parts. This acquisition will allow Feintool to expand its current fineblanking and forming capabilities to include producing components...

Boomerang Tube LLC, an oil country tubular goods producer in Liberty, Texas, has purchased 100 percent of the ownership interests in Houston-based Southern Tube LLC (STL) from Nippon Steel & Sumikin Oil Field Services Inc. STL now operates as a wholly owned unit of Boomerang Tube. The acquisition...

Lancaster, Pa.-based GSM Industrial Inc., a custom metal fabricator and mechanical contractor, has appointed Jarrod Randel as vice president of sales. With a background in sales, project management, and business analytics, he most recently worked at Southeastern Industrial Fabrication, dba Dixie...

IntriPlex Technologies, a precision metal forming company in Santa Barbara, Calif., has launched a new website at www.intriplex.com. The redesign is coordinated with the company’s identity rebranding as IntriPlex expands beyond its traditional focus on producing components for the data storage...