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4th Quarter Workholding Shipments Down from 2008 Levels
At $46.2 million for fourth quarter 2009, shipments of workholding equipment were down 19.0 percent from fourth quarter 2008 according to the Advanced Workholding Technology (AWT) Group of AMT ? The Association For Manufacturing Technology (McLean, VA). Workholding equipment shipments…
APPLICATION-SPECIFIC COLD-FORMING TAPS
These Cold-forming Taps from Emuge Corporation are specially designed with unique geometric designs, coatings, and styles for chipless production of internal threads in a wide range of specific applications.
Columbus McKinnon Responds to Haiti Relief Effort
Columbus McKinnon Corporation (Amherst, NY), a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of material handling products, is contributing more than $40,000 worth of products to aid the recovery efforts in Haiti. Primary contributions include chain, load binders, and assemblies for moving…
Townsend Buys Vitullo Precision Machining
The City of Wixom welcomes Manufacturing Solutions and Technologies LLC dba Vitullo and Associates, a precision machining company, and new owner David Townsend to town. Townsend purchased the company late in 2009 and plans on keeping the business growing here…
Just a Phone Call Away: iPhone Operates Laser System
Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH; Hanover, Germany), in cooperation with the industrial partner neoLASE GmbH (Hanover, Germany), has developed a laser system control that can be used with an iPhone.
Lincoln Electric-Branded Bobsled Competes in Bodine Bobsled Challenge
NASCAR, NHRA and other celebrity drivers flocked to Lake Placid, NY, for the Fifth Annual Lucas Oil Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge presented by Whelen Engineering. The event, held January 8-10 and will air on the SPEED channel on January 31,…
Deacero Steel Long Products Output to Reach 4 Million Tons Per Year By 2011
Deacero S.A. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico), Mexico's largest steel-maker, is setting up a wire rod and rebar production facility at Saltillo, which will increase its long products output to 4 million tons per year. According to a report by Industrial…
ABB to Supply Automation Equipment for Seamless Tube Manufacturing
Global engineering equipment manufacturer ABB Limited (Zurich, Switzerland) secured a contract to supply electrical and automation equipment and allied services for a new seamless-tube manufacturing unit being developed by ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) and Bin Jarallah Group (BJG; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). According…
MicroStep Debuts in U.S.
Fabcut, LLC (Cincinnati, OH) recently introduced MicroStep cutting machines into the U.S. MicroStep Group has long been esteemed as a top quality provider of cutting technology outside America. With a portfolio of state of the art profile and pipe cutting…
New ASTM Steel Wire and Welded Wire Reinforcement Standard is Approved
The ASTM (W. Conshohocken, PA) Committee A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys published a versatile new standard, A1064/A1064M, Specification for Steel Wire and Welded Wire Reinforcement, Plain and Deformed, for Concrete. The new standard is under the jurisdiction…
January Industry Watch: Business
BIG KAISER PRECISION TOOLING INC. (HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL) . . . opened its new corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates. At 33,000 sq ft, the new facility is nearly three times larger than the former headquarters and features a state-of-the-art showroom…
January Industry Watch: People
KENNAMETAL INC. (LATROBE, PA) . . . named Bernie McConnell, the current vice president of global MSSG marketing, as the new vice president of the Widia Products Group and Services, which includes the Widia, Hanita, Rübig, Manchester, Clapp-DiCo, Greenfield Tap…
