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Flow International Appoints Allen Hsieh Vice President & CFO
Flow International Corporation (Kent, WA, NASDAQ: FLOW) announced the appointment of Allen Hsieh as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Hsieh will oversee all of Flow's financial functions from the company's headquarters in Kent, WA and report directly to Charley…
Aristo Machines Announces Manufacturing Partnership With MTD
Aristo Machines, Inc., manufacturer of tube end forming systems, has announced a new partnership with Manchester Tool & Die, Inc. (MTD). Manchester Tool & Die will now manufacture, install, and offer support for Aristo?s lines of tube end forming systems….
BIG Kaiser Announces Groundbreaking of New Facility
BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc. (Elk Grove Village, IL) announced the groundbreaking of a new corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates, IL. The company and all of its employees, along with Hoffman Estates Village Officials, celebrated the beginning of construction with…
Sapa Fabricated Products Acquires Certain Assets of Edwards Products
Sapa Fabricated Products (Magnolia, AR) announced that it has acquired certain assets of Cincinnati, OH-based Edwards Products company. Edwards Products is a leading supplier of aluminum accessibility products to the commercial modular building industry. According to Sapa, the addition of…
Airtronics Metal Products, Inc. Acquires Axial Industries
Airtronics Metal Products, Inc. (San Jose, CA) a Silicon Valley sheet metal engineering, design and manufacturing company, has announced it has finalized an acquisition agreement with Axial Industries, Inc., a San Jose sheet metal fabrication and machining company. As part…
Ken-Mac Metals Installs Red Bud Precision Multi-Blanking Line
Red Bud Industries (Red Bud, IL) announced that Ken-Mac Metals, a division of ThyssenKrupp Materials NA, recently installed a Red Bud Industries? Precision Multi-Blanking Line at their Kansas City, MO service center. The line will be used to process stainless…
RP Machine Enterprises, Inc. Acquires Statesville, NC Division of Alpha/Sullivan Steel
RP Machine Enterprises, Inc. (Statesville, NC) has acquired the Statesville, NC Division of Alpha/Sullivan Steel. The service center in North Carolina features large Blanchard grinding applications up to 144 in. This acquisition also provides a superior magnetic division that will…
Iberdrola Denies Cutting UK Windfarm Investment
Iberdrola Renovables SA (Bilbao, Spain), the world's largest wind-power generator, has denied media reports that the company plans to cut investment in UK wind power projects by up to 40 percent. Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX) states that The…
Seco Tools Adds New Product Marketing Manager, Advance Materials – Turning
Seco Tools (Troy, MI) announced the appointment of Chad Miller as product marketing manager for advance materials in its turning group. Miller will supervise technical product development, marketing analysis, product pricing, marketing strategy, and field application support for the advance…
Confidence of Small Manufacturing Companies Higher
The Small Business Research Board (SBRB, Buffalo Grove, IL) Manufacturing Industry Small Business Confidence Index (M-SBCI) increased to 39 during the fourth quarter of 2008, an increase of seven points from the 32 recorded in the second quarter of 2008….
Master Chemical Corporation Appoints New Chief Financial Officer
Master Chemical Corporation announced that Cary R. Glay joined Master Chemical Corporation as Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Mr. Glay will have global financial responsibility for the Corporation to direct and oversee all financial and information systems functions assuring…
Burlington Automation Expands to New Facility
Burlington Automation (Burlington, Ontario), a designer/builder of automatic CNC metal fabricating machinery, tube finishing equipment and material handling systems, began operations from its new, larger facility in Hamilton, Ontario. This modern facility features 30 percent more space, higher crane capacity…