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OPPORTUNITIES IN WORKHOLDING
This showcase of new workholding devices displays the latest advancements that could make your operations more competitive.
Machine Safeguarding: An Investment and Cost-Cutting Measure
John Peabody of Omron Scientific Technologies explains why the cost of not having machine safeguards far outweighs the cost of designing these safety measures into our plant operations.
Bannon Automotive Constructs $30 Million Electric Car Plant in New York
Bannon Automotive, LLC, (Long Island, NY), in a joint venture with REVA Electric Car Company (Bangalore, India), is moving forward in constructing a $30 million electric-car manufacturing plant in Clay, NY. Bannon received a state package of grants and tax…
Commercial Metals Company Exits Joist and Deck Business
Commercial Metals Company (CMC; Irving, TX) has decided to exit the joist and deck business by way of sale and/or closure of those facilities. Since April 2007, the company has manufactured the United Steel Deck brand of metal roof deck,…
Crucible Industries and Latrobe Specialty Steel Distribution Announce Partnership
Crucible Industries, LLC, (Syracuse, NY) announced its partnership with Latrobe Steel Distribution (Latrobe, PA) for the sales and marketing of Crucible Particle Metallurgy® (CPM). Supported by more than 30 years of investment in research and development, Crucible's CPM is a…
Contract Fabricator Promotes Careers in Manufacturing
Michael Dougherty, president of D&S Manufacturing (Black River Falls, WI), recently announced the company?s involvement in Max and Ben?s Manufacturing Adventures, a collection of videos developed by Western Technical College (La Crosse, WI) to introduce middle school children to the…
Extrusion Americas Topped 200 Million Pounds of Recycled Aluminum Last Year
Recent data released by the Hydro Extrusion Americas unit reported recycling more than 207 million pounds of scrap aluminum in 2009. Of this, nearly 20 percent was post-consumer waste. The balance was post-industrial waste. Hydro remelts the scrap at its…
Gerdau Ameristeel Sand Springs Mill Remains Idled
This is a followup to our earlier report a few weeks ago on the closing of this steel factory: After careful evaluation of a comprehensive proposal submitted to Gerdau Ameristeel by the State of Oklahoma and the City of Sand…
Great Lakes Remains Epicenter of the American Industrial Complex
The Great Lakes region, which includes Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, is the largest of the seven U.S. market regions for industrial plant population. With more than 7,500 operational industrial plants, the region accounts for 21 percent of…
Hardinge Asks Shareholders to Reject Romi's Offer
Machine tool manufacturer Hardinge Inc. (Elmira, NY) said its board recommended to shareholders to reject the $90 million unsolicited offer by Brazilian rival Industrias Romi SA, calling it "grossly inadequate and opportunistic." In March, Hardinge had adopted a poison pill…
New Company Provides Sales and Technical Support for Pipe Fabricators
Darren Sewell has formed a new company, Weldwide Solutions Limited, to support the pipe fabrication industry with a wide range of products and technical know-how. The company?s products include inflatable pipe-purging dams, weld gas analyzers, stands, clamps and pipe freezing…
A Low-Cost Alternative to Automated Guided Vehicles
SmartCarts from Motion Controls Robotics allow users to quickly install or modify the guidepath and are ideal for moving products on an assembly line or transporting goods throughout a plant or warehouse.
