Tube bending machine manufacturer Schwarze-Robitec is expanding its U.S. branch office, moving the North American service and distribution team to Grand Rapids, Mich. The site also includes a 2,000-sq.-ft. warehouse that stores the most important spare parts for its custom-made tube bending...

Emuge Corp., a West Boylston, Mass., manufacturer of taps, drills, end mills, and other rotary tools, has established a partnership with Open Mind Technologies, a Germany-based developer of CAD/CAM software with U.S. offices in Needham, Mass. The partnership is a formal step following the...

Gerdau Steel Mill recently marked its 60th year in business by breaking ground on an environmental upgrade to its full-production steel mill in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. The “$22 million investment … will make our Rancho mill one of the greenest in the nation, if not the world,” said Peter...

Cajo Technologies, New Orleans, has delivered a laser marking system to Portland, Ore.-based Gerber Gear, a supplier of personal knives, multitools, and gear.

The system can mark vibrant colors on steel, titanium, and chrome.

Stratasys Ltd., Eden Prairie, Minn., a 3-D printing and additive manufacturing (AM) systems company, has announced that the German Aerospace Centre is using Stratasys FDM 3-D printing for the production of a fully working prototype of TransRoPorter (TRP). TRP, built at the Institute for Robotics...

Spirit AeroSystems, a fabricator of aerospace parts, has created a new center focusing on the fabrication of complex commercial and military aircraft parts. Located at the company’s headquarters in Wichita, Kan., the center includes new 5-axis machines to manufacture complex aluminum and titanium...

Rockford Systems, Rockford, Ill., a provider of machine safeguarding technologies, has been named an authorized distributor of the Lazersafe® Sentinel Plus press brake guarding system, designed for the retrofit market. In a standard retrofit, the system’s laser transmitter and receiver are...

Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), Princeton, N.J., has announced the winners in the 2017 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards competition. These component fabricators were recognized for using PM’s flexibility to push forward new concepts and process controls and demonstrate...

Steel service center Direct Metals has installed a wire mesh slitter at its Kennesaw, Ga., facility. The company provides slitting services for its steel, stainless steel, and coated wire mesh inventory as part of its fabrication services. The firm’s inventory includes perforated metal, bar...

Schofield, Wis.-based Greenheck, a manufacturer of air-movement, -conditioning, and -control equipment, has released a video at www.greenheck.com that features the FumeJet® pre-engineered and installation-ready centrifugal exhaust fan package. The system is designed to remove and disperse...