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Gerdau to Resume Heavy Plate Mill Project at Acominas Plant
Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau (Porto Alegre, Brazil) will install a one million ton capacity heavy plate mill at its Açominas facility in the Minas Gerais state of Ouro Branco for an estimated $994 million to begin flat steel production in the…
Mate Precision Tooling GmbH Holds Grand Opening at New Frankfurt Headquarters
?The Grand Opening of our new European headquarters for Mate Precision Tooling GmbH was a big success, with nearly 200 customers, dealers, OEM partners and dignitaries attending,? reported Frank Baeumler, the managing director and vice president of the tooling manufacturer?s…
Commercial Metals Company Announces Upcoming Organizational Realignment
Commercial Metals Company (Irving, TX) plans an upcoming realignment in its segment reporting structure within its major operational units, the CMC Americas Division and the CMC International Division. Effective December 1 the CMC Americas Division will operate utilizing three segments:…
Service Center with Largest Waterjet Tables in North America Adds Another One
Jacquet Mid Atlantic (Pottstown, PA) recently installed a new 21 ft x 13 ft large-format mid rail gantry waterjet system from Jet Edge, Inc. (St. Michael, MN). This mid rail gantry is the third Jet Edge waterjet system at Jacquet?s…
Harco Metal Products Receives ISO Certification
Harco Metal Products (Tempe, AZ), an industry leader in tube fabrication, systems integration, and seamless, cost effective manufacturing, has received ISO:9001 certification. This certification, part of the ISO:9000 family of standards for quality management systems, was awarded after rigorous independent…
Celeritive Technologies Issues 1,000th Seat of VoluMill
Celeritive Technologies (Cave Creek, AZ) has become the fastest ever to sell the first 1,000 seats of high-speed machining software to the CAM industry. The 1,000th seat of VoluMill? was sold to Mastercam® user Advanced Machining Services LLC (AMS; Bend,…
U.S. Manufacturing Remains Viable, But a New Kind of Skilled Worker is Needed
The dominant mood among those in political power is one of continued crisis. Every day brings a new and greater challenge that only the wise heads of government can hope to solve. The manufacturing sector has not been immune to…
Manchester Tool & Die Receives ISO 9001:2008 Registration
Manchester Tool & Die, Inc. recently received ISO 9001:2008 registration from Intertek Testing Services NA, Inc. The quality management system assessed and registered is applicable to the design and manufacturing of equipment used in the fabricating process of tubing and…
Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp. Named 'Vendor of the Year'
Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp. (Louisville, KY) was recently named "Vendor of the Year" in the lumber and building materials commodities division by Do it Best Corp., the only U.S.-based, member-owned hardware, lumber, and building materials buying cooperative in the home…
Jobs: Midnight in America
On the heels of recent news that U.S. unemployment had climbed to the highest rate since April 1983, the president of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM; Washington, DC) likened the crisis to 'Midnight in America.' "Our country…
TRW Produces Ten Millionth Unit of Electric Park Brake Technology
TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (Livonia, MI) is celebrating the production of its ten millionth Electric Parking Brake (EPB) motor-on-caliper unit at its plant in Koblenz, Germany. The plant is TRW's global technical center for braking systems where the breakthrough EPB…
Boeing Receives Second All-Electric Tube Bending Machine for Helicopter Manufacturing
Unison recently supplied a second all-electric tube bending machine to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Philadelphia, PA). The order for this equipment came just two years after Unison delivered the first system. This tube bending machine is a Breeze 20 system…
