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Schunk Announces Promotion of New National Sales Manager
Schunk has announced the promotion of Tom Jerry to National Sales Manager of Schunk USA. ?Mr. Jerry brings a wealth of Sales Management experience and offers a fresh perspective on how to grow the US market in the midst of…
Trumpf Changes Direction in Taiwan
Trumpf (Ditzingen, Germany) announced it is redesigning its business in Taiwan. In addition to marketing machine tools and lasers, the technology company is strengthening its electronics division by expanding the service and maintenance efforts where, within two years, the number…
Master Chemical Corporation Announces Boeing Approval of Metalworking Fluids
Master Chemical Corporation (Perrysburg, OH) announced that MicroSol 585, a non-chlorinated, semi-synthetic metalworking fluid, and E917, a low-foaming, high-lubricity emulsion, are qualified for areas 5 and 6 of the Boeing process spec BAC5008. Boeing usage area 5 approval includes machining…
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Bullish on Indian Steel Sector
According to a report recently published by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (Mumbai), the country's leading economic research company, India will see a surge in demand for steel in the present fiscal year, 2009-10, but the price of steel…
PartMaker Receives Latest Autodesk Certification
PartMaker Inc. (Fort Washington, PA), a subsidiary of Delcam Plc, has announced that PartMaker Version 9, the latest version of its PartMaker® CAD/CAM software for CNC Mills, Lathes, WireEDM, Turn-Mill Centers and Swiss-type lathes, has been certified for use with…
Habasit America Moves Into New 340,000 sq ft Facility
Habasit America (Suwanee, GA) held the official ribbon cutting ceremony for their new 340,000 sq ft North American headquarters on April 21. In attendance were Congressman John Linder and Vice President, Economic Development & Partnership of the Gwinnett Chamber of…
New Automotive Study Helps Auto Engineers Reduce Vehicle Weight
A study commissioned by WorldAutoSteel (Middletown, OH) shows automotive engineers a new approach to design for noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) called ?Hybrid Interior Noise Synthesis (HINS).? The study illustrates how vehicle components can be optimized for NVH performance and…
Pangborn Merges with European Shot Blast Industry Leaders
Capital Equipment Resources LLC (Fairburn, GA), the parent of Pangborn Corp., a North American shot blast wheel manufacturer, has signed a final agreement with Wheelabrator/Disa Group to acquire Pangborn Europe, V+S and Berger. The merged companies will operate six facilities…
Pakistan Proposes to Link Domestic Steel Prices with International Market Rates
Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, Pakistan's Minister of Industry and Production, recently said the government is proposing to fix the prices of local steel products manufactured by state-controlled Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation Limited (Karachi, Pakistan) to be on par with international market…
Wheelabrator and DISA Complete Merger
Wheelabrator (LaGrange, GA) and DISA Group have merged to form a leading metallic parts enhancement company. The two companies, both owned by Mid Europa Partners, have been given official approval by the German Bundeskartellamt to complete their merger process, begun…
Trumpf Inc. and Magestic Systems Inc. to Work Together in U.S. Laser Cutting Market
Trumpf Inc. and Magestic Systems Inc. have entered into a cooperative business arrangement calling for the two companies to assist each other in the U.S. with sales projects related to Trumpf?s TruLaser cutting machines and Magestic?s TruNEST enterprise software, which…
JSW Steel Anticipates Drop in Cost of $7 Billion Integrated Steel Mill
JSW Bengal Steel Limited (Kolkata, West Bengal), a subsidiary of leading Indian steel manufacturer JSW Steel Limited (Mumbai), expects the total cost of setting up an integrated steel mill in Salboni in the West Medinipur District of West Bengal to…
