Okay Industries Inc., New Britain, Conn., has promoted Sean Stowik to director of sales and marketing. He joined the company in 2010 and has more than 25 years of sales experience. The company manufactures components and subassemblies for OEMs in medical, automotive, defense/firearms, and...

Munich-based Matmatch has created what it says is the largest free materials database in the world to help bridge the gap between suppliers and purchasers. Users of the database at https://matmatch.com/ can research and compare materials by filtering on their physical, chemical, and thermal...

Braner/Loopco, Schiller Park, Ill., has received an order for a Turret Head™ slitting line from Austin, Texas-based United Steel Supply, a supplier of galvanized and prepainted steel coil for metal roofing and siding applications. The line will have the capacity to process high-strength coated...

SigmaTEK Systems LLC, a provider of CAD/CAM software for nesting, NC programming, and cutting of steel sheet, plate, and tube/pipe, will host its annual SigmaNEST user conference, STAC (SigmaTEK Academy and Conference), May 8-9, 2018, at the Sharonville Convention Center in Cincinnati. This...

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, Pa., has received MedAccred heat-treating accreditation.

The company says it is the eighth plant internationally and fifth plant domestically to receive this certification.

Manufacturing software provider Lantek has collaborated with Vicomtech, the Visual Interaction and Communications Technologies Center Foundation, to work on the development of BeroSim, a 3-D simulation software system that allows the user to calculate graphically and interactively how heat sources...

Mohawk Metal, Eugene, Ore., has completed fabrication of Amazon Spheres, a $4 billion domed office park in Seattle for Amazon employees. The company was one of three metal fabricators who processed and fabricated the millions of pounds of steel in the three glass structures, the largest of which is...

Rafter Equipment Corp., a manufacturer of tube mills, pipe mills, roll forming machines, cutoff machines, and related tube and pipe mill machinery in Strongsville, Ohio, has shipped an RT-4000S single-sided turkshead straightener with 2-axis motorized adjustments to a North American heavy-wall tube...