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MSSC Wins 2014 Manufacturing Leadership Council Award
The Frost & Sullivan’s Manufacturing Leadership Council 2014 Manufacturing Leadership Awards (ML Awards) honor companies, organizations and individuals that are shaping the future of global manufacturing.
MTI Systems Expands Costimator Support
The expansion includes ongoing cost estimating software training at no cost to enable customers to quickly gain knowledge of new functionality in MTI cost estimating software.
New Preventive Maintenance and Service Program for Magnetic Equipment
This new program is designed to assist customers with maintaining their magnetic equipment, including corporate or regulatory audits and ertification, service and repairs and operations staff training.
Elite Craft Support is Now Core Crew
The new brand and website represent the company’s current and future perspective to recruit and place the best talent in the skilled trades, including welders, pipe fitters, ironworkers, millwrights, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, and other skilled positions.
EOS Introduces Two New Metal Materials for Additive Manufacturing
Eos Titanium Ti64 Eli And Eos Stainless Steel 316l are corrosion resistant and biocompatible materials open up new industrial fields in surgical instruments, endoscopic surgery, orthopedics and medical implants.
REGO-FIX® Honored with Award by Swiss Venture Club
The tooling manufacturer received the prestigious Prix SVC award for excellence in innovation, business performance and sustainable development.
U.S. Manufacturers Tour Kaiser Switzerland
Visitors on the tour were shown a 30-year-old tool body that had just been returned by a manufacturer for repair work. Operations from product and fixture design to rough and finish machining and assembly are done on two levels of the original Kaiser factory. A flexible production process supports lot sizes from one to 1,000, but typical lots are 10 to 150 pieces.
FMA and NAM Partner to Achieve Goal of 500,000 Industry Certifications
Over the past year, the certification partners have issued 117,189 certifications, an increase of over 30 percent, bringing the total to 294,478 certifications issued since 2011. With 80 percent of manufacturers citing a moderate to severe shortage of skilled workers, this is an important step in closing the skills gap and increasing the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing.
Forney Industries Launches Online Ordering Wizard
Express Upload, the exclusive new e-commerce application, eases and accelerates the online ordering process. Participating dealers can now upload their Forney Web Store order with just a few keystrokes.
OMCO Breaks Ground for Expanded Indiana Plant
The expansion includes new roll forming lines and the re-design of existing lines to improve manufacturing flexibility, customer lead times and overall plant throughput.
Bunting Magnetics Adds New England Sales Rep
Steven Clark has been named the territory manager for standard products, with sales responsibilities for Upstate New York and the New England states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
Lincoln Electric Helps Fabricate Vehicles Used in Action-Packed Movie
To achieve the custom vehicles for Need for Speed, numerous Lincoln Electric products were used during the fabrication process, including multiple POWER MIG® welders, a Tomahawk® 375 Air plasma cutting system and a Precision TIG® 375 welder. They also utilized a variety of Red Line™ welding apparel and VIKING™ auto-darkening helmets.