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D&S Manufacturing Named Supplier of the Year by Parkson Corporation
D&S Manufacturing (Black River Falls, WI) was recently named Supplier Of The Year by Florida-based Parkson Corporation. In accepting the honor, President Michael Dougherty commented, ?The entire D&S team is very proud to be the first recipient of this prestigious…
Deadline Approaches for Greater Transparency and Disclosure for Union Trusts
The January 1, 2009, compliance deadline is fast approaching for new U.S. Department of Labor union transparency regulations, reports Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX). Final rulings, which were passed in late September of this year, require all labor unions…
Sumitomo Metals and Sumitomo Corporation Acquire Norton Manufacturing Company
Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Metals) and Sumitomo Corporation have completed the acquisition of Norton Manufacturing Company Inc., headquartered in OH, in accordance with the agreement made in August 2007, and have started operation of a newly-established SMI Crankshaft LLC….
COTTON FIBER MOUNTED POINTS PROVIDE CONTROLLED BLENDING AND FINISHING
Rex-Cut offers a full line of cotton fiber mounted points that provide smooth, controlled blending and finishing for precision applications, such as mold repair.
NEW HEAVY GAGE EDGE TRIM SYSTEM
Red Bud Industries has expanded its offering of Edge Trim Systems to include material up to 1/2 in (12.7 mm) in thickness. The new Heavy Gage System can take up to 2 in (51 mm) per side from coils at that maximum thickness.
Bunting Magnetics Appoints New Product Manager for Magnetic Separation Product Line
Bunting® Magnetics Co.,(Newton, KS) has named Rick Bigham as the new Product Manager – Magnetic Separation. "The Magnetic Separation product line is historically our largest in terms of sales and overall importance to the company,? Robert J. Bunting, the company?s…
RathGibson Integrates an In-Line U-Bend Manufacturing Center
RathGibson (Lincolnshire, IL), has incorporated an in-line U-Bend manufacturing center in their Janesville, WI facility. The RathGibson U-Bend system includes a laser mill, bright annealing, U-Bender, and drawing. Bright annealing, a heat treatment used to obtain certain desirable metal characteristics,…
Lockheed Martin Approves Master Chemical Cutting Fluid for Titanium
Lockheed Martin has approved Master Chemical's (Perrysburg, OH) TRIM® MicroSol® 585 to be used on titanium. Two of the major divisions of Lockheed Martin that will heavily benefit from the use of MicroSol 585 are Aeronautics and Missiles and Fire…
Schunk Participates in Joe Gibbs Racing's 2008 FanFest
Schunk Inc. (Morrisville, NC), continues its partnership with Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), one of NASCAR?s premier Sprint Cup Racing teams, by participating in JGR?s 2008 FanFest. The event, which hosted approximately 4,000 fans, took place on October 10th at the…
LG Electronics to Invest $172 Million in Two Solar Cell Lines
LG Electronics (Seoul, South Korea), the world's third largest appliance maker and a leading global manufacturer of electronics and mobile communication products, has announced it will invest $172 million for building two solar cell lines at an existing plasma panel…
Manufacturing Officially Enters Deep Recession
Factory activity contracted sharply in October, falling to its lowest in 26 years as the financial crisis ravaged the world's largest economy and its trading partners around the globe, according to the report issued by Reuters. The one bright spot…
European Metals Market Filled with Caution and Short on Credit
In the first week of October at the annual congress of the World Steel Association (Brussels, Belgium) in Washington, D.C., Karl-Ulrich Kohler, Executive Board Chairman of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG (Duisburg, Germany), a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp AG (FRA:TKA) (Dusseldorf, Germany), expressed…
