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Frost & Sullivan Honors Kimberly-Clark Professional For Commitment to Product Innovation
Frost & Sullivan (Mountain View, CA) has presented Kimberly-Clark Professional with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation. The award is in recognition of the company?s proactive development of new products developed to meet end-users? needs…
OMAX® Corporation Selects New Distributor for Chip Market in the California Territory
OMAX Corporation (Kent, WA) has selected Machinery Sales Co. as a new distributor for the company's line of precision abrasivejet waterjets. The California-based company specializes in providing expert solutions and strong application support for high precision, high performance metalcutting machines….
CIMCOOL® CIMTECH® 46C Metalworking Fluid Receives Boeing Approval for Aerospace Manufacturing
CIMCOOL Global Industrial Fluids (Cincinnati, OH) received Boeing approval for CIMCOOL CIMTECH® 46C Metalworking Fluid, under BAC 5008REVr – Areas 5 and 6, including titanium alloys. The approval number is BOEING PSD 6-124. It is recommended for moderate duty grinding…
Foremost Machinery Acquires Jetstream Waterjet CNC Cutters
Realizing that waterjets are quickly becoming one of the most versatile and eco-friendly machine tool investments, Foremost Machinery announces the acquisition of Jetstream Waterjet CNC cutters. Extremely high pressures cut through virtually any material, from soft foam to hard glass…
Metris Outsources c3 CMM Manufacturing by Spinning Off Italian CMM Operations
Metris (Leuven, Belgium) has announced that its Italian C3 CMM operations will continue as an independent organization. Metris will continue to source its aluminum-based C3 range of CMMs from its spin-off that also becomes the exclusive reseller of Metris products…
NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE DICHROIC SPECTRAL METAL COATINGS
Deposition Sciences, Inc. offers the newest addition to its dichroic hybrid spectral metal product line, High Temperature Spectral Metal. Coated onto thin stainless steel sheets via DSI?s patented MicroDyn sputtering technology, the innovative metal coating can withstand extremely high temperature ranges, up to 400 deg C.
Sandvik Underway With $85 Million Expansion
Sandvik Inc. is adding 51 jobs to its Mebane, North Carolina plant over the next three years, reports the Winston-Salem Journal (Raleigh, NC). These jobs will be added along with $85 million in capital investments. Sandvik received $150,000 from the…
Variation Reduction Solutions Receives Third Contract for F-35 JSF Manufacturing Research
Variation Reduction Solutions, Inc. (VRSI, Plymouth, MI), an independent integrator of vision solutions, has received a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for robotic aerospace drilling development, bringing total SBIR grant monies received by VRSI to $10,000,000. The…
Technical Services Manager Appointed at Laboratory Testing Inc.
Laboratory Testing Inc. (Hatfield, PA) has appointed Mark Tierney of Bethlehem, PA to the new position of Technical Sales Manager at Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI). This position was created to develop stronger customer relationships through enhanced service, faster communication and…
AAMA Announces New Aluminum Course
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA, Schaumburg, IL) has announced the creation of a new classroom educational course addressing the versatility of aluminum. The course, entitled The Aluminum Advantage, was developed by the association’s Aluminum Material Council Strategic Marketing…
Rockford Toolcraft Inc. Receives Daimler Trucks North America ‘Masters of Quality’ Supplier Award
Rockford Toolcraft Inc. (Rockford, IL) has been recognized by Daimler Trucks North America as a Masters of Quality Supplier. The award was recently presented to Jerry and Tom Busse by the Purchasing Management Team of Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA)…
Datron Names Earth Falcon as Florida Sales Representative
Datron Dynamics (Milford, NH) has announced that Earth Falcon Machine Tool, Inc. (Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL) has been named Florida representative for Datron Dynamics, Inc., North American distributor of Datron high speed, CNC drilling, engraving and machining systems. Earth Falcon is…