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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…
ESAB Announces Major Wind Energy Industry Order
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products (Florence, SC) has announced its largest ever, single-customer order for welding and cutting equipment and consumables. The multi-million dollar order was placed by the leading wind tower manufacturer, Vestas Towers A/S, a part of Vestas…
Mazak Distributor Plans Open House Event
Mazak (Florence, KY) distributor, Addy Machinery Company, recently opened a new sales office in Grand Rapids, MI. The company will host an Open House at the 5,200 sq ft facility on December 10 and 11, 2008. Family owned and operated,…
Post Show Report On parts2clean 2008 Event
The leading international trade fair for cleaning within the production process, parts2clean, took place in Stuttgart, Germany on October 28-30. With 244 exhibitors (a 16 percent increase from last year) from 13 countries, the 6th parts2clean reported attendance of 4,482…
Steel Tube Institute Goes Green
This year?s Steel Tube Institute of North America?s (STINA, Coral Gables, FL) Annual Meeting, held October 7-8 in Las Vegas, focused on green buildings and green building rating systems, with presentations from the top two rating systems in North America,…
Motoman Names New Vice President – U.S. Sales
Motoman Inc. (Dayton, OH) announced that John P. Donlon has joined Motoman as Vice-President U.S. Sales. For more than 28 years, Donlon?s career has centered around executive-level sales and marketing positions for major multinational companies involved in process, automation and…
Seco Announces New Online Technical Forum
Seco Tools Inc. (Troy, MI) has launched a new online technical forum, lead by the Seco Application Support team, as a real-time solution to assist companies that are experiencing machining issues. "We?ve long had a technical team in place to…
Master Chemical Opens New Manufacturing Plant In Tianjin, China
Master Chemical (Perrysburg, OH) celebrated the start of a new manufacturing plant in Tianjin, China. The opening ceremony for Master Chemical (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. was held at the new facility on October 18, 2008. Mr. Joe H. Wright, Chief Executive…
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….
