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Monarch Steel Adds New Lighter Gauge Slitter to Complete Product Line Offerings
Monarch Steel Company, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) has increased the production capacity of its Decatur, AL facility with the addition of a light gauge slitter. The new slitting line will add significant capability to slit cold rolled, and galvanized products ranging…
In the Wake of Successful 2008 Fiscal Year, ThyssenKrupp Braces for a Slower 2009
ThyssenKrupp AG (Dusseldorf, Germany) recently released its earnings report for both the final quarter and fiscal year of 2008, reports Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX). While sales amounts for the company were up from 2007, moving from $69.5 billion…
Industry Leaders Co-Sponsor Symposium to Raise Welding Awareness Among High School Educators
The future is bright for welding. That was the message conveyed to over 100 Wisconsin high school counselors, educators and administrators at a recent symposium on welding careers sponsored by Miller Electric Mfg. Co., Airgas, Miron Construction and AZCO Inc….
Hearing Technology Company Sensear Named Finalist for 2009 Innovation Shootout
Sensear (Crawley, Western Australia), a leading innovator of hearing protection technology to the global industrial market, has been named a finalist and the representative of the Australian State of Western Australia in the 2009 Innovation Shootout, to take place in…
Analysis: Friday's Jobs Report from the Labor Department
Friday's Job Reports By Peter Morici Friday, the Labor Department will report employment data for November. In October, the economy lost 240,000 jobs, and the consensus forecast is for another 300,000 jobs lost in November. My forecast is for a…
Severstal Defers $8 Billion Steel Investment Program
As the global economic crisis continues to check industrial progress worldwide, industry majors in the steel sector are continuing to curb production and defer proposed capital expenditures, the latest being Severstal (Cherepovets, Russia), Russia's largest steel producer. According to Industrial…
Surfware Inc. Receives Patent for Engagement Milling
Surfware Inc. (Camarillo, CA), developer of SURFCAM CAD/CAM software, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a patent (number 7451013) for its Engagement Milling technology. "This patent protects the intellectual property and proprietary technology that we have…
Beijer Electronics Launches HMI Website for Machine Builders
Beijer Electronics has launched its new website, www.machinebuilderhmi.com, to provide tuned information on products, customization, development and support, and to satisfy demand for reliable HMI solutions for OEMs and machine builders. "We listen to our customers requests and provide customized…
Construction of First French Offshore Windfarm to Begin in 2009
Enertrag France SARL (Cergy, France), a subsidiary of Enertrag AG (Dauerthal, Germany), expects to begin construction of the first offshore windfarm in France in the second quarter of 2009. According to a report by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX),…
Tata Group Continues Expanding Presence in South Africa
Tata Steel KwaZulu Natal (Pty) Limited (Richards Bay, South Africa), a subsidiary of Tata Steel (Jamshedpur, Jharkhand), recently commissioned a new briquette plant in the industrial port of Richards Bay at the company's ferrochrome smelter facility at the same site,…
Mayfran Acquires Canadian Conveyor Firm
Mayfran International (Cleveland, OH) has expanded its product capabilities with the acquisition of Press Room Techniques (PRT) of Lindsay, Ontario. PRT is the developer and manufacturer of a line of patented products that manage scrap in stamping operations. PRT?s innovative…
Western Enterprises Donates Equipment to Community College
Western Enterprises (Westlake, OH) has partnered with Lorain County Community College (LCCC) as the supplier of shielding gas regulators, flashback arrestors and hose quick disconnects for the new National Center for Welding Education and Training to be built in 2009….
