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Beckwood Press Expands Offices
The Beckwood Corporation (St. Louis MO) recently expanded their St. Louis, MO facility to include an additional 560 square feet of office space to accommodate their growing workforce. ?Beckwood continues to enjoy steady growth in the hydraulic press & automation…
Blum Opens Office in Canada
Blum LMT (Erlanger, KY) announces the opening of a Canadian office (its 14th office worldwide), in Toronto, Ontario, providing sales, service and support of laser tool measurement and probing systems. This year marks the 10th year for Blum in the…
FANUC Robotics Introduces New Robot Training Certification Program
FANUC Robotics America, Inc. (ROCHESTER HILLS, MI) introduces the Certified Education Robot Training (CERT) program, a new certification available to qualified high schools, community colleges and universities. The program certifies instructors at educational institutions to train their students to program…
Severstal Acquires Sparrows Point
OAO Severstal (Moscow, Russia) one of the world?s leading metals and mining companies, has reached an agreement to purchase Sparrows Point, a fully-integrated steel mill based in Baltimore, Maryland. Sparrows Point, currently owned by ArcelorMittal, is being sold by Joseph…
McClain Tool and Technology Represent Toyoda Machinery in Midwest
Toyoda Machinery (Arlington Heights, IL) is pleased to announce McClain Tool and Technology will represent its horizontal machining, vertical machining, grinding equipment, and flexible manufacturing systems in Kansas, Missouri, and Southern Illinois. Toyoda Machinery continues to broaden its reach by…
De-Sta-Co Acquires Industrial Motion Control, LLC
De-Sta-Co acquires Industrial Motion Control, LLC (Wheeling, IL) and its facilities in Belgium and China. IMC boasts revenues of $50 million. They manufacture high load, high speed and high accuracy industrial automation applications, including CAMCO and Ferguson mechanical motion control…
Motoman Establishes Robotics Laboratory
Motoman Inc. (Dayton, OH) establishes the Motoman Robotics Laboratory at the University of Dayton School of Engineering by furnishing $371,000 worth of state-of-the-art robots, including a seven-axis, actuator-driven IA20 robot; a 15-axis, actuator-driven and human-like dual-arm DIA10 robot; a four-axis…
Sourcehorizon, Inc. Awarded Contract
Sourcehorizon, Inc. (Greensboro, NC) is awarded an approximately $200,000 15-month contract for technology and services by the North Carolina Military Business Center (NCMBC) and the North Carolina Aerospace Alliance (NC AA). SourceHorizon will establish and maintain the North Carolina Machining…
Applied Manufacturing Technologies acquires K-R Automation
Applied Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. (Orion, MI) acquires K-R Automation (Warren, MI), an automation controls design, engineering and panel manufacturing company. K-R Automation is being folded into AMT?s existing operations. AMT will maintain K-R?s current manufacturing and engineering facility at Centerwood…
AWS Standards Users Cautioned About Unauthorized Translations
The American Welding Society (Miami, FL) issued a formal caution about using unauthorized translations of AWS standards and other AWS publications in Chinese, Spanish and other languages. Because AWS has not sanctioned these translations, AWS cannot attest to their accuracy….
Italian-Indian Alliance Introduces First VTC
Maus SpA (Padova, Italy) introduces first CNC vertical turning center produced by its alliance with Tal Manufacturing Solutions Limited (Pune, India), the machine building group of Tata Motors Limited. The machine was recently unveiled during a ceremony at the Tal…
Morgan Crucible Acquires Two Technical Ceramics Businesses
Morgan Crucible Company PLC (Stourport, UK) acquires two technical ceramics businesses, Certech and Carpenter Advanced Ceramics (both in Wyomissing, PA), from Carpenter Technology Corporation for $147 million in cash. Certech manufactures complex, injection-molded, consumable ceramic components used during the investment…