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Vari-Form Receives Ford Q1 Award
Vari-Form (Dearborn, MI), a large producer of hydroformed structural components for the automotive industry, recently received the prestigious Ford Q1 Award, Ford Motor Company?s highest recognition for supplier quality at a ceremony held in Strathroy, ON. Vari-Form has supplied tube…
GF AgieCharmilles Adds New Distributor
GF AgieCharmilles (Lincolnshire, IL) has selected G-Tech CNC Solutions as a new distributor for the company's industry-leading lines of high speed milling and wire and diesinking EDM machines. G-Tech will replace Flint Machine Tools as the company's distributor in states…
NTMA Kentuckiana Chapter Champion Places First
Seven Regional Champions from across the United States recently participated in the 36th NTMA/NIMS National Apprentice Competition in Cleveland, OH. For the second straight year, the Swiss Embassy to the United States played a unique role in the competition, as…
Sam Thompson Appointed President of Airgas NCN Region
Airgas, Inc. (RADNOR, PA) names J. Samuel Thompson president of Airgas Northern California and Nevada, one of the regional companies that make up Airgas? distribution business. As president, Thompson leads a region, headquartered in Sacramento, CA, that includes about 600…
Growth for Bosch Rexroth
Bosch Rexroth AG, parent company of Bosch Rexroth Corporation (Hoffman Estates, IL) in North America, announces $7.4 billion (?5.4 billion) in sales for 2007 ? up 8.8 percent from the previous year. During the last fiscal year, the drive and…
The Road to Welding Automation
Why and When to Take the Journey
When the Rubber Hits the Mold
This shop profile explores how one small mold-maker relies on ingenuity and technology to succeed when times get tough.
Pressing On with Safety Networks
Similar discretely wired safety relays can finally be replaced by safety rated networks. Why did we abandon relay-based control but hold on so long to relay-based safety?
TORNOS Acquires Almac and Almatronic
Tornos Group (Moutier, Switzerland) acquires a 95 percent share of Almac SA and 100 percent of Almatronic SA, both in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Almac manufactures CNC machining equipment for small high precision parts in the medical, dental and semi-connector industries….
VX Corp. Adds Great Lakes As Reseller
VX Corporation (Melbourne, Fl) adds Great Lakes 3D CAD/CAM as its newest U.S. reseller. Great Lakes 3D will work closely with the Erie Institute of Technology (Erie, PA) to establish a regional VX CAD/CAM training center. The Erie Institute of…
Haller Acquires Acro-Feed and Automatic Tooling
Haller International Technologies, Inc. (Detriot, MI) acquires Acro-Feed Industries, Inc. and Automatic Tooling Corporation, both in Detriot. Haller is wholly owned by Dennis A. Haller, the former president of Acro-Feed and ATC. Acro-Feed manufactures designer and automatic bar loaders for…
Rockwell Automation Acquires Cedes
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) has reached an agreement to acquire the Safety and Automation business of CEDES AG (Landquart, Switzerland), a European supplier of safety and measuring light curtains, safety and non-safety optoelectronics, control units and related accessories for…
