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Kleentek Hires Eric Levitt as Sales Engineer
Kleentek (Cincinnati, OH) has announced the appointment of Eric Levitt to sales engineer. Levitt is responsible for the sales of Kleentek?s full line of electrostatic oil conditioning systems in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. Levitt brings valuable…
Timken Company Completes $60 Million Expansion Project
The Timken Company (Canton, OH) has opened a new $60 million small-bar rolling mill, reports Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX). Timken's Harrison Steel Plant in Canton, OH, was chosen as the location for this expansion. Timken joined forces with…
Bryant Grinder Celebrates 100 Years of Grinding ' 1909 to 2009
Bryant Grinder (Springfield, VT), a division of Vermont Machine Tool Corporation, is celebrating 100 years in business in 2009, making it one of the oldest surviving machine tool companies in the United States. ?The really exciting thing about Bryant is…
Lincoln Electric Acquires Brazilian Brazing Products Manufacturer
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) announced that it has acquired a 90 percent interest in Brastak, a leading Brazilian manufacturer of brazing products. The company is based in Sao Paulo and has annual sales of approximately $30 million. "The…
Cinetic Landis Corporation Dedicates New Headquarters
Cinetic Landis Corp. has officially dedicated its new headquarters and manufacturing facility located in Hagerstown (Washington County), MD. Approximately 250 employees, company executives and guests from local academia and government agencies recently convened to mark the official opening of Cinetic's…
HighSpeed Group in Joint Venture with Mitsui OSK Lines for Shipping Business in Bangladesh
HighSpeed Group (Dhaka, Bangladesh), a leading business conglomerate of Bangladesh, entered into an agreement with Mitsui OSK Lines Limited (MOL) (Tokyo, Japan) to set up a joint venture in the shipping sector, the first between the two countries, according to…
AK Steel Temporarily Shutting Plants in Ohio, Kentucky
AK Steel Holding Corp. has said it is temporarily closing plants in Ohio and Kentucky because of economic turmoil that has sharply lowered demand for its steel products, reports the Associate Press (New York, NY). The company, based in West…
International Energy Agency Releases World Energy Outlook 2008
The International Energy Agency (IEA) (Paris, France) has released the first report of the World Energy Outlook 2008, which outlines the world's energy viewpoint for the next 22 years. According to research from Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX), the…
Turkey's Yildirim Plans to Produce 400,000 Tons of Ferrochrome Annually Starting in 4Q-09
Yildirim Holding A.S. (Istanbul,Turkey) plans to produce 400,000 tons per year of ferrochrome starting in the fourth quarter of 2009. By the end of 2008, the company expects to have eight ferrochrome-producing furnaces in operation, reports Industrial Info Resources (Sugar…
OMAC Symposium Features Author Vivek Bapat as Keynote Speaker
Okuma America Corporation will host the 2nd annual OMAC (Organization for Machine Automation and Control) integration and interoperability symposium December 3-4, 2008 at Partners in THINC (Charlotte, NC). Featured as keynote speaker is In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant co-author…
Millennium Machinery Opens Mitsubishi Waterjet Showroom
MC Machinery Systems, Inc. (Wood Dale, IL) has announced its northeast distributor, Millennium Machinery, has opened a new Mitsubishi Waterjet showroom. The 7,500 square-foot facility houses a new Mitsubishi 3000 Suprema waterjet on which regular product demonstrations and training sessions…
Tom Schockman Named VP, Finance and Accounting, and CFO for Motoman, Inc.
Motoman Inc. (Dayton, OH) has announced that Thomas J. Schockman has joined Motoman as Vice-President, Finance and Accounting, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He succeeds Steve Barhorst, who took over the top leadership role as Motoman?s President and Chief Operations…
