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Personal air-conditioning vest helps workers avoid heat stress
- Jun 5, 2017
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Vortec personal air-conditioning vests circulate cool air to minimize temperature-related stress and fatigue for workers. They are suitable for use in foundries, paint and welding shops, and smelters, as well as outdoor tasks during summer months. A vortex tube reduces the temperature of the air...
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- Jun 2, 2017
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Industrial and automotive supplier Schaeffler is expanding its manufacturing apprenticeship program as it prepares to award journeyman tool and die certification to the first group of apprentices to complete the company's three-and-a-half-year training program at its Fort Mill, S.C., location. The...
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- Jun 2, 2017
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IronCAD has announced the availability of IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite (DCS) 2017 Product Update 1. According to the company, this update enhances the software’s performance when dealing with large assemblies, decreasing save times by 25 percent and speeding up graphical interaction by 45...
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U. S. Steel names VP/chief HR officer
- Jun 2, 2017
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Pittsburgh-based U. S. Steel Corp. has appointed Barry Melnkovic as vice president and chief human resources officer. He served previously as executive vice president and chief human capital officer for National Railroad Passenger Corp./Amtrak. He was named the 2016 HR Executive of the Year by...
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American Axle & Mfg. names senior VP
- Jun 2, 2017
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American Axle & Mfg., Detroit, has appointed Tolga Oal as senior vice president – AAM Corporate. Oal will continue to serve as president – AAM North America, leading the regional business and manufacturing activities for the company’s largest driveline business unit. Oal joined the firm in...
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FMA Safety Conference recap: Building the safety culture
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Fabricators offer suggestions on how to establish a safe working culture and how to motivate the workforce to maintain it.
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Enerfab appoints CEO and COO
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Cincinnati-based Enerfab, a provider of fabrication, construction, and maintenance services to the heavy industrial and utility markets, has named Scott Anderson as CEO and Robert Sylvester as president/COO. Anderson served as president of Enerfab Process Solutions and Fabrication Products from...
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Special punching tool helps to make exterior panels shine
- Jun 2, 2017
- Punching and Other Holemaking
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An academic develops an algorithm for a hole pattern that looks symmetrical even if it isn’t. A fabricator using diamond cluster forming tools makes that pattern come to life on San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center.
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Clark Fixture Technologies announces staff additions
- Jun 2, 2017
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Clark Fixture Technologies, Bowling Green, Ohio, a provider of quality verification tooling, such as check fixtures, orbital weld fixtures, and in-process fixturing, has announced two staff additions. Jeff Schumaker, who has extensive experience in the automotive industry in the U.S. and Mexico,...
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Park Industries names staff to support plasma products
- Jun 2, 2017
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As St. Cloud, Minn.-based Park Industries enters the plasma market, Tom Wandmacher will operate as the director of metals processing. He will lead the sales and business development strategy for the plasma product line in partnership with Al Holst, product manager. Wandmacher and Holst have a...
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Pumped about waterjet cutting
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- Jun 2, 2017
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BJ Schrank is a self-identified metalworker. He's done it for the 29 years that he has run AA Precision Tooling in Blooming Prairie, Minn. A waterjet is changing the dynamics of his business, and he's pretty excited.
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The evolution of the hydraulic ironworker
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- Jun 2, 2017
- Punching and Other Holemaking
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When hydraulic ironworkers appeared on the scene in the 1960s, they made their mark almost instantly. They were affordable and much safer. Today metal fabricating has evolved, but so has the ironworker in many ways. It still remains an important tool for fab shops.
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MetalTek Wisconsin Centrifugal reaches 2 million-hour safety milestone
- Jun 1, 2017
- Safety
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MetalTek Intl., a supplier of alloy components for high-temperature, severe-wear, and harsh corrosive environments, has announced that its Wisconsin Centrifugal Division has surpassed 2 million labor-hours worked without a lost-time incident at its Waukesha, Wis., operations. This safety record has...
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Concurrent Technologies adds $1.2 million in metal AM equipment
- Jun 1, 2017
- Shop Management
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Concurrent Technologies Corp. (CTC) has invested $1.2 million in new additive manufacturing (AM) equipment at its Johnstown, Pa., facility. The new equipment includes a VRC Metal Systems Gen III Max cold spray system and an AMBIT™ hybrid AM multitask system installed in a Haas VF 11 multiaxis...
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Flack Global Metals CEO named finalist for Entrepreneur Of The Year
- Jun 1, 2017
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Cleveland-based service center Flack Global Metals has announced that its founder and CEO, Jeremy Flack, is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2017 Award in the northeast Ohio region. The awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial...
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