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Detroit Tool Metal Products to Receive $2 Million in Funding for New Manufacturing Process
Detroit Tool Metal Products (DTMP; Lebanon, MO) announced that the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has approved $2 million in funding to develop an improved manufacturing process for the use of advanced titanium metal in military vehicles. The funding is part…
Aleris Promotes New EVP And President For Rolled Products North America Business
Aleris International, Inc. (Beachwood, OH) recently promoted K. Alan Dick to president of its Rolled Products North America business unit, and named him an executive vice president of the company. Dick has worked in the aluminum industry for over twenty-three…
Defense Production Act Legislation Strengthens U.S. Defense Industrial Base
U.S. manufacturers continue to roundly applaud the enactment of the Defense Production Act (DPA) reforms and reauthorization (S. 1677), the bill signed into law by President Obama last month. ?America?s national security is threatened by the erosion the recession has…
AME Institute Honors Students With 2009 Educational Scholarship
The AME Institute (Arlington Heights, IL), an organization established by the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME; Arlington Heights, IL) in 2008, awarded six students, each paired with a professor, with an educational scholarship to attend AME?s 2009 International Lean Conference…
Miller Welding & Machine Achieves ISO Certification
The Miller Welding & Machine (Brookville, PA), a provider of industrial manufacturing services, recently announced that its manufacturing facility has earned ISO 9001:2000 and 14001:2004 certifications by Eagle Registrations, Inc., an ANAB accredited registrar. ISO 9001:2000 is a globally recognized…
ESAB Adds New Manufacturing Lines To Ashtabula Plant
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products (Florence, SC) has added two new wire drawing lines at its Ashtabula, Ohio, manufacturing facility. These new lines will produce wire for high production submerged arc welding (SAW) applications. This addition will significantly increase ESAB?s…
New York Manufacturing Employment Drops 7.6 Percent
Industrial employment in New York fell 7.6 percent over the past 24 months, according to the 2010 New York Manufacturers Register®, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc. (MNI; Evanston, IL). MNI reports that New York lost 62,786…
WestWind Technologies Celebrates Grand Opening of New Hangar Facility
In an unprecedented public/private partnership, WestWind Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, AL) recently celebrated the grand opening of its new Huntsville Aircraft Modification & Integration Center. This marks the first time the Huntsville International Airport has partnered with a small business to…
Celeritive Technologies And Gibbs and Associates Sign Agreement
Celeritive Technologies (Cave Creek, AZ) recently signed an agreement with Gibbs and Associates (Moorpark, CA) to offer the high-speed machining toolpath engine VoluMill as an option for its GibbsCAM CAD/CAM product. VoluMill?, created by Celeritive, is a toolpath engine that…
Senate Cap-and-Trade Bill Favors Corporate Interests Over National Interest
The "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" recently introduced by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) favors corporate interests over our national interest, says the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research (Washington,…
ABB Robotics And Vincennes University Partner For New $9 Million Facility
ABB Robotics (Auburn Hills, MI), a leading supplier of industrial robots, and Vincennes University (VU; Vincennes, IN) have formed a partnership that will greatly enhance the Indiana college?s vocational and technical robotic training, and provide ABB with an authorized training…
Tata Steel to Begin Construction of 6 Million Ton Orissa Steel Plant by Yearend
Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX) reports that construction of the beleaguered 6 million-ton-per-year Kalinganagar integrated greenfield steel plant project, to be developed by Tata Steel Limited (Jamshedpur, Jharkhand) in Jajpur district of Orissa, is expected to start by December…
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