The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), Rolling Meadows, Ill., has named Accuride Erie Operations and Accuride Rockford Operations as the winners of a 2015 AME Excellence Award. The award recognizes North American manufacturing plants that have demonstrated excellence in manufacturing...

Mechanical construction company Tweet/Garot, Green Bay, Wis., has added a Building Automation department to complement its existing HVAC services. The team designs, installs, programs, maintains, repairs, and replaces facility automation systems. Ryan Macario, with more than 19 years of...

Latrobe, Pa.-based L&S Machine Co. has acquired Advanced Mfg., a prototype and production manufacturing facility in San Jose, Calif. Advanced Mfg. fabricates metal and plastic parts for the semiconductor and aerospace industries. L&S Machine is a producer of complex, demanding-tolerance parts...

The White House has announced that it has appointed Sridhar Kota, director of the Institute for Manufacturing Leadership at the University of Michigan, to lead a U.S. consortium to identify emerging advanced manufacturing technologies to enhance the country's innovation, manufacturing...

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3), Ann Arbor, Mich., has published a white paper entitled “Robots Fuel the Next Wave of U.S. Productivity and Job Growth” in which data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a variety of manufacturing firms document how and why increasing the use of...

Ascent Aerospace has added 42,000 sq. ft. of office and manufacturing space to its facility in Macomb Township, Mich. The site allows co-location of the program management, systems engineering, aftermarket support, and global supply chain resources required to produce integrated assembly systems...

Frankfurt, Germany-based steel distributor Kloeckner & Co. has announced its acquisition of American Fabricators, Nashville, Tenn. Kloeckner, trying to combat the effect of persistently low steel prices mainly caused by overproduction in China, is aiming to invest in higher-value products and...

Nominations are being accepted for a series of awards from The Welding Institute, Cambridge, U.K., to recognize outstanding achievements in welding, joining, and related technologies. Award categories are:The Brooker Award – to recognize a person’s individual contribution to the science,...

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in September for the 33nd consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 76th consecutive month, said the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report on Business®. The report was issued by Oct. 1 by...