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New law enhances manufacturers’ tax benefits
- By Stephen Barlas
- Jan 21, 2016
- Blog Post
Congress finally provides permanent approval for Section 179 expensing deduction and bonus depreciation laws.
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres of California appoints VP of operations
- Jan 20, 2016
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of California, Fontana, Calif., has promoted Mike Moffit to vice president of operations. In this role he oversees the day-to-day operations of the heat-treating facility. Moffit has been with the company for 21 years in a variety of departments and served as the quality...
- From The Fabricator
Norsk Titanium, Premium Aerotec begin joint program for additive-manufactured titanium parts
- Jan 20, 2016
- News Release
Norsk Titanium AS, Oslo, Norway, has announced that a premier shipment of Airbus A350 XWB test parts manufactured with its patented Rapid Plasma Deposition™ (RPD™) process has been received and finish-machined by Premium Aerotec. The titanium Ti6Al4V sample parts, for which Premium Aerotec...
- From The Fabricator
FMA report shows fabricators, job shops facing uncertainty
- Jan 20, 2016
- News Release
Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl. (FMA), Rockford, Ill., has released the Q4 2015 "Forming & Fabricating Job Shop Consumption Report." The report looks at small and medium-size job shops and fabricators. The overall sense of this most recent report is that fabricating shops are...
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Advanced Heat Treat celebrates 35 years in business
- Jan 20, 2016
- News Release
Advanced Heat Treat Corp., Waterloo, Iowa, marks its 35th anniversary in 2016. In 1981, Gary Sharp started the company with 12 investors, two employees, and two UltraGlow® ion nitride units. Today the company provides heat-treat and metallurgical services to companies worldwide. Processes...
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Networking opportunities abound at FMA Annual Meeting
- Jan 20, 2016
- News Release
Executives in the metal fabricating and processing community will enjoy more than 12 hours of dedicated networking time during The FABRICATOR®’s Leadership Summit and Toll Processing Conference tracks of FMA’s Annual Meeting, Feb. 24-26, 2016, at Paradise Point Resort & Spa in San Diego,...
- From The Fabricator
Wilton marks 75th anniversary
- Jan 19, 2016
- News Release
Vise manufacturer Wilton® marks its 75th anniversary in 2016. The company was founded in Chicago in 1941 by Hugh W. Vogl, who designed a 4-in. machinists’ vise shaped like a bullet. The vise’s enclosed design keeps lubrication in and contaminants out. The horizontal spindle nut creates an even...
- From The Fabricator
Air knives handle cooling, drying, blowoff applications
- Jan 19, 2016
- Product Release
Vortec offers air knives that transform ordinary compressed air into a uniform sheet of amplified air for blowoff of water and debris, high-speed drying or cooling, and air curtains. Filtered compressed airflow is amplified 25 times over its input to deliver a high-velocity sheet of laminar air...
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Perspective on 2016: Metal fabricators stand ready to swing
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 19, 2016
- Blog Post
For U.S. manufacturers, 2016 is full of uncertainty. But shops with diversified customer bases and healthy balance sheets stand ready to swing.
- From The Fabricator
The tipping point: A new way to manage value streams in high-mix manufacturing
- Jan 19, 2016
- Article
Lean consultant Gary Conner describes a way to adapt value stream mapping—with its roots in low-mix, high-volume production—to the high-mix, low-volume job shop.
- From The Fabricator
Cincinnati Incorporated, Oak Ridge National Laboratory collaboration earns R&D 100 Award
- Jan 18, 2016
- News Release
Cincinnati Incorporated (CI) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) earned top technology product of the year in the process/prototyping category at the 2015 R&D 100 Awards & Technology Conference. The award recognizes the companies’ Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) system. The team...
- From The Fabricator
Caterpillar names group president
- Jan 18, 2016
- News Release
Caterpillar Inc. has named Denise Johnson, currently vice president with responsibility for the Material Handling & Underground Division, as group president of Resources Industries. The appointment, which follows the recently announced retirement of Group President Ed Rapp, takes effect April 1,...
- From The Fabricator
Industrial valves connect via Internet for consistent monitoring
- Jan 15, 2016
- Product Release
Flowrox has introduced the new Smart line of industrial valves, designed for connectivity via the Internet for consistent monitoring to help reduce unplanned downtime and guarantee spare part availability. The valves are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity,...
- From The Fabricator
WPI professor wins ASME Ben Sparks Medal
- Jan 14, 2016
- News Release
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass., has announced that Allen H. Hoffman, professor of mechanical engineering and co-director of WPI's Assistive Technology Resource Center (ATRC), has been selected to receive the 2016 Ben C. Sparks Medal from ASME. The award, which recognizes...
- From The Fabricator
TigerStop launches weekly blog
- Jan 14, 2016
- News Release
TigerStop, a provider of automated stop/gauge and pusher systems in Vancouver, Wash., has launched Tiger Shop, a weekly blog that aims to empower manufacturers to be globally competitive. The blog includes information and recommendations on best practices for growth and efficiency and includes...
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