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AMT President Urges Congress to Assist Small Manufacturers
Testifying before the House Small Business Committee, Douglas K. Woods, President of AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology, told members of the committee that the effects of tax breaks and other provisions within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ? the…
Hexagon Metrology Initiates Litigation Against Metris and Mitutoyo
Hexagon Metrology (North Kingstown, RI) has filed a patent infringement suit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts alleging that Metris N.V. (Leuven, Belgium) and its U.S. subsidiary Metris U.S.A., Inc. (Brighton, MI), and Mitutoyo Corporation (Kawasaki, Japan) and its U.S….
PMA Says More Metalformers See Gloom Lifting
American Metal Market By Corinna Petry As a greater number of metalforming companies this month see an increase in their average daily shipping levels compared with June, more also anticipate the trend of general economic activity to rise, according to…
Democrats Drop Key Part Of Bill To Assist Unions
The New York Times By Steven Greenhouse A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers. The so-called card-check provision ? which senators decided…
INSPECT MORE WITH LESS
New Digital Gage Interface/Multiplexer connects to one PC serial port and uses up to eight digital micrometers, calipers and height gages at the same time. A single operator can define multiple ?part feature? setups, each having unique tolerance limits, preset value, measurement resolution, peak-hold setting and display format. And that?s just the start.
SCRATCH THE SURFACE
Surface Measurement: This 3D Motorized Scanner inspects very low roughness without contact. Easy-to-use microscope precisely measures 3D microstructures and determines roughness of surfaces in high resolution 3D with true color.
MORE POWER: NEXT STEPS IN INSPECTION SOFTWARE
This hardware-independent inspection software is now even easier and more flexible to use, from simply measuring the distance between two points, two planes or the centres of two circles, to checking the thickness of a section, to complex identification of problem areas in bigger parts with large numbers of measurements.
England to Miss 2010 Green Energy Target
England will miss its renewable energy targets for 2010 unless the country's individual regions speed up the rollout of green energy projects. According to Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX), a report from the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) says…
India's SAIL Annuls $400 Million Contract Awarded to POSCO for Steel Plant Expansion
India's primary steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) (New Delhi), has cancelled the $400 million contract awarded to POSCO E&C (Pohang, South Korea), the engineering and construction arm of global steel giant POSCO (Pohang) for construction of a…
U.K. Outlines Renewable Energy Strategy
The U.K. government plans to invest heavily in offshore wind and marine power technology to help the country meet its renewable energy targets. The goals come as part of the government's new Renewable Energy Strategy white paper, which outlines how…
Slight Jump in Job Losses During June, Unemployment Rate Essentially Unchanged
After months of depressing employment information being reported monthly by the government, May was the first month this year in which job losses were relatively moderate, although the unemployment rate increased one half of a percent. In June, however, job…
12 Percent Decline in Global Steel Production Forecasted for 2009
In its recently published global steel review, MEPS (International) Limited (South Yorkshire, United Kingdom), has predicted that global steel production in 2009 will be about 1.165 billion tons, a 12 percent decline from production figures in 2008. Industrial Info Resources…
