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Equipment Leasing Remains at Two-Year High
The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation released its April Monthly Confidence Index for the $827 billion equipment finance industry, showing that the index is unchanged from last month at 65.1, the highest level in two years.
GF Machining Solutions Helps Lotus F1 Team
The Lotus F1 Team invested in six high-performance, cost-effective Mikron HPM 450U 5-axis machine tools with integrated automation to produce its precision, complex F1 car parts in low quantities. These replaced 3-axis milling machines that were not performing at the desired productivity levels.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Tours Roll-Kraft
Justice Sharon L. Kennedy toured the roll tooling company’s headquarters in Mentor, OH.
Röhm Adds South-Central U.S. Sales Manager
Mark W. Raby is the new regional sales manager of chucks, centers, vises, and tool clamping and automation systems for Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Toshiba Machine America and Regal Machine Tool Announce Partnership
This partnership makes Regal Machine Tool the exclusive distributor of sales, advanced support in service, applications and training of Toshiba Machine horizontal boring mills and vertical turning centers in Texas and Louisiana.
Wildeck Reports Record Sales and Strong Growth
High demand of its elevated work platforms, vertical lifts and safety guarding products, along with continuing growth of warehouse ladders from its subsidiary company, Ladder Industries, led to the hiring of key personnel to meet customer demand.
Local Motors Launches Design Challenge for First 3D Printed Car
This initial challenge will inspire the overall design of the vehicle that Local Motors will manufacture at IMTS in Chicago in September 2014.
Mitsubishi Electric Automation Adds MDT Software to e-F@ctory Alliance Program
MDT AutoSave provides superior interactive background monitoring with complete control over secured user and workstation access, disaster recovery, controlled editor operations, and automatic change notification in GX Works2, GX Developer, and C64 and C70 CNCs.
Walter USA Restructures Marketing Organization
Mark Hemmerling is the new director of marketing for the entire Americas Region and Maria Cartier is the new marketing manager for the U.S. and Canada.
Overview of Connecticut Spring & Stamping Asian Operations
Ideal for shops who have a physical presence in Asia or whose parts can be produced more economically there and imported to the U.S., the CSS overseas program enjoys lower Asian manufacturing labor costs without all the obstacles associated with language barriers, time differences, and long lead times, as well as shipping charges and customs and currency issues.
Autodesk Certifies GibbsCAM for Autodesk Inventor 2015
CNC programming software recognizes Inventor-assigned part and feature attributes to program machines directly from part models.
Liberty Steel Installs New Coil Feeding Lines
Liberty Steel now uses seven coil processing lines from COE Press Equipment at its manufacturing plants.