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The Biden administration announced a new “Made in America” program to encourage the federal government to purchase more domestically made goods from small and medium-sized manufacturers.
Lisle, Ill.-based steel plate supplier Leeco Steel has promoted Pat Pennington to business development manager and Ben McCall to sales manager, south region. Pennington joined the company in 2015 as a sales representative in the Houston sales office. He was promoted to national account manager in...
Polymer additive manufacturing pioneer Stratasys has extended its reach in the AM market with the acquisition of RP Support Ltd., the U.K.-based builder of stereolithography-style 3D printers. The purchase comes on the heels of Stratasys’ December 2020 purchase of Origin, which builds digital...
New ClearPak 5000 poly packaging film from Daubert Cromwell protects aluminum, steel, and copper during storage and transit. It meets TL8135-0034 and NACE TM0208 requirements for a corrosion-inhibitor film and is RoHS-compliant. The flexible film, which prevents rust and discoloration, is suitable...
Xerox and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) have formed a strategic collaboration focused on advancing additive manufacturing, a technology that the Navy believes has the potential to dramatically transform the way the military supplies its forward-deployed forces. As part of a CRADA...
Ferrous85″ Co., Wilder, Ky., has announced it will install and operate the largest slitting line in North America at SDI Sinton’s EAF steel mill in Sinton, Texas. The line, which will be operational by September 2021, will offer toll slitting of hot-rolled and hot-rolled pickled-and-oiled...
Liqcreate’s resins are designed to additively manufacture flexible, functional objects, including prototypes. The company offers five product lines: General Purpose, Creative, Engineering, Castable, and Premium. There are five resins in the Premium line. Premium Tough is an impact-resistant...
Alro Steel has announced the completion of a warehouse expansion and office remodel in Toledo, Ohio. With its new size of 123,000 sq. ft., the building now has additional metal processing capabilities and doubled storage capacity for sheet product inventory, plate, and long products. The company...
Hot-rolled steel prices that had reached heights not seen since 2008 are expected to start declining by the end of Q2 at the latest.
The aim of Baker Hughes and Würth Industry North America is to provide both additive manufacturing services and digital inventory management to targeted industries.
Among the services Smith Metal Products offers are metal injection molding (MIM), design for manufacturability consultation, in-house metallurgical services, and 3D printing on an ExOne Innovent+ metal binder-jet system. The Center City, Minn., shop, founded in 1957, says binder jetting lets...
Buehler, a manufacturer of equipment and consumables for material analysis based in Lake Bluff, Ill., will present the webinar “Fundamentals of Etching” on Feb. 24, 2021, at 12:00 p.m. CT. Hosted by physical metallurgist George Vander Voort, the webinar will cover the core principles of etching...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Atmospheric Water Extraction program awarded GE Research a $14.3 million contract to build the prototype of a device capable of providing 150 troops their daily ration of potable water while significantly reducing the cost and logistics of...
Xuron Corp. offers two hand tools for FFF (fused filament fabrication)-style 3D printers. The 170-II Micro-Shear Flush Cutter prepares filament being fed into the printer, and the 450 Tweezer-Nose Pliers removes support structures during postprocessing. The manufacturer says the cutter’s...
BIG-nano has stepped up during the COVID-19 pandemic by using its nanofiber technology to help Canada safeguard the nation’s health care workers. A couple of years ago, the Ontario company developed a gas-assisted jetting process to manufacture nanofibers—polymer fibers having nanometer-range...
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
start your free subscriptionSeth Feldman of Iowa-based Wertzbaugher Services joins The Fabricator Podcast to offer his take as a Gen Zer...
The Association of Metal Processors and Distributors (AMPD) serves the needs of professionals in the steel distribution industry.
Follow the link below to find an AMPD member steel supplier near you.