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Shop Management - Page 156
- From The Fabricator
South Carolina metal fabricator honors longtime employees with new cars
- By Gareth Sleger
- Jan 24, 2019
- Blog Post
For their four decades of service to Anderson, SC, metal fabrication company Sargent Metal, Amanda Tiller, a customer service representative, and Doug Getsinger, a MIG welder, were each surprised with a brand-new 2018 Nissan Rogue to celebrate their 40-year work anniversaries.
- From The Fabricator
Toolmaker meets material, tolerance challenges with CNC technology
- Jan 24, 2019
- Article
SituationBridge Tool & Die, Buckley, Mich., was experiencing industry pressure to increase die life and to lower costs. The company had been increasingly using carbide grades and ceramics and tighter tolerances to meet this demand. However, this shift of materials and tighter tolerances created the...
- From The Fabricator
Rapid, a Protolabs company, wins The FABRICATOR’s 2019 Industry Award
- Jan 23, 2019
- News Release
Rapid, a Protolabs company in Nashua, N.H., has won The FABRICATOR®’s 2019 Industry Award. The award recognizes Rapid’s quick-turn production capabilities, lean manufacturing efforts, and overall evolution over the past year. The sheet metal fabrication and machining company offers custom...
- From The Fabricator
CoolSys acquires Arjae HVAC and Mechanical Services
- Jan 23, 2019
- News Release
CoolSys™, Brea, Calif., has acquired Arjae HVAC and Mechanical Services, Milwaukie, Ore., which provides commercial and industrial HVAC installation and services and sheet metal fabrication throughout the Pacific Northwest. Arjae offers full-service fabrication of aluminum, galvanized steel,...
- From The Fabricator
Bud’s Machine Tools hires sales manager for Midwest
- Jan 23, 2019
- News Release
Bud’s Machine Tools, Kamas, Utah, has named Kevin Sprayberry as sales manager for the Midwest, comprising all of the Central Time Zone, as well as several states in the Great Lakes area. Sprayberry has 25 years of sales experience, including more than 20 years in the machine tool industry as a...
- From The Additive Report
Additive manufacturing frees designers’ creativity
- By Kuldeep Agarwal
- Jan 23, 2019
- Article
Job shops involved in casting, sheet metal work, and machining typically aren’t contracted to perform long production runs. They are hired for small volumes of parts—those ranging from one to 1,000 pieces. With low volumes like these, though, it’s often too time-consuming and costly to make...
- From The Fabricator
MD Technology offers tapping tool service
- Jan 23, 2019
- News Release
MD Technology LLC, Corona, Calif., offers service and repair of NCT3 and NCT3.5 tapping tools with original parts.
The company is the originator of the Turret Tapping Tool from Race Industries and d/k technologies.
- From The Fabricator
Kemper’s WeldFil extraction system features internet-compatible control module
- Jan 23, 2019
- Product Release
Kemper offers the WeldFil series extraction and filtration system. The internet-compatible systems are available in full size for large installations and a smaller plug-and-play version, WeldFil Compact. With new sensor technology and a cloud-based, internet-compatible control module, information...
- From The Fabricator
Wabash National Corp. to divest aviation and truck equipment business to AFI Partners
- Jan 22, 2019
- News Release
Wabash National Corp., Lafayette, Ind., a diversified industrial manufacturer and producer of semitrailers, truck bodies, and liquid transportation systems, has announced it is selling its Aviation and Truck Equipment (AVTE) business to Garsite Progress LLC, an entity formed by AFI Partners, a New...
- From The Fabricator
Signet LLC creates Chemical Specialties Division
- Jan 22, 2019
- News Release
Private investment firm Signet LLC, Akron, Ohio, has formed a Chemical Specialties Division that includes four of its chemical manufacturing and service companies:Sprayroq, a provider of spray-applied resin technology for structural rehabilitation and corrosion protection of water and wastewater in...
- From The Fabricator
New Way Air Bearings welcomes middle-schoolers for What's So Cool About Manufacturing? program
- Jan 22, 2019
- News Release
New Way® Air Bearings, a manufacturer of modular air bearing products in Aston, Pa., recently hosted local middle school students for the What's So Cool About Manufacturing? program for the second consecutive year. The program, started in 2013 by the Manufacturers Resource Center in Allentown,...
- From The Additive Report
Additive manufacturing isn’t just for billion-dollar organizations
- By Don Nelson
- Jan 22, 2019
- Blog Post
Every few months or so I read about a university, government agency, or manufacturing company that’s opening a research center devoted to advanced technologies. These organizations tend to be large and well-funded. GE, for example, invested approximately $1.5 billion in its Global Research...
- From The Fabricator
Voortman Steel Machinery adds sales support for U.S., Canada
- Jan 22, 2019
- News Release
Steel fabricating machinery manufacturer Voortman USA, Monee, Ill., a branch of Netherlands-based Voortman Steel Machinery, has hired Nathan Bury as regional sales manager. Bury previously worked in the rebar sector for 12 years in operations and sales. In his new role, he supports the Midwest,...
Energy market a windfall for tube, pipe producers in 2019 and beyond
- By Eric Lundin
- Jan 22, 2019
- Article
In 2011, U.S. petro companies pumped a mere 5.4 million barrels of oil per day. By 2018 it was twice that, and it’s expected to keep growing as the international demand for oil grows.
- From The Fabricator
U.S. steel producers fight efforts to change what counts as domestic content in water projects
- By Stephen Barlas
- Jan 21, 2019
- Blog Post
In language that is evidenced in a 2019 appropriations request, domestic steelmakers successfully eliminated products “substantially transformed” as qualifying as domestic content in EPA water programs.
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