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Eco-Tech Coatings LLC has purchased a license from GREENKOTE® Plc, Cleveland, to apply the GREENKOTE thermodiffusion coating process to its products.
The company is using the eco-friendly GREENKOTE PM-1 and PM-10 zinc thermodiffusion coating processes in its new Tyler, Texas, facility on cus...
11/10/09
Trimac Industrial Systems LLC, Kansas City, Kan., has appointed Scott Fouts to the position of Kemac® brand manager. He has 15 years of sales and marketing experience in the parts washer equipment field, including such spray and immersion washer applications as inline, batch, ultrasonic, and mon...
11/10/09
Elgin Fastener Group (EFG), Versailles, Ind., has promoted Phil King to the position of vice president of manufacturing. In this position, he works in tandem with team members at EFG companies Chandler Products and Leland Powell Fasteners to incorporate lean principles.
King joined Ohio Rod Prod...
11/10/09
GREENKOTE® Plc, a global coating technology company with headquarters in Cleveland, has expanded production at its location in Sauerlach, Germany. The new plant production area operates multiple shifts on two production lines to support its customers throughout Europe.
The production team pr...
10/13/09
DISA and Wheelabrator have merged, and their parent organization has announced a new name: Norican Group.
The company, located in Herlev, Denmark, will continue to build, develop, and promote the DISA brand (molding technology) and the Wheelabrator brand (surface preparation) and will use Norica...
8/11/09
Katana Industries Inc., Burlington, Ont., has installed a Wheelabrator 10-ft. plate machine and a Wheelabrator full-recovery airblast room at its wind generation manufacturing facility in Columbus, Neb. The company produces 262.5- and 295.3-ft. steel tubular wind towers.
After the plate steel a...
8/11/09
Specialty Metals Processing Inc. (SMP), a toll processor of nonferrous metal in Stow, Ohio, has installed a custom-built, 72-in.-wide wet sheet/plate polisher and precision grinder.
The machine features CNCs, special lighting, and a 240-in.-long vacuum chuck table. It can polish or precision-gri...
8/11/09
Michigan Seamless Tube, a producer of carbon and alloy seamless cold-drawn pipe and tube, has added a new UV coating line to its South Lyon, Mich., facility, offering 100 percent solid UV coatings for increased corrosion resistance and enhanced product appearance.
The system, installed by Univer...
7/14/09
Lincoln Industries, a metal fabricator and finisher in Lincoln, Neb., has selected Bill Ellerbee to serve as vice president of operations.
Ellerbee joined the company last year as director of materials and customer service. In that position, he was responsible for implementing and managing the co...
7/14/09
CenterLine (Windsor) Ltd., Windsor, Ont., has hired Brad Dierickse as account manager. He has 20 years of practical business experience in the industrial automation sector, having held such positions as product marketing specialist, program manager, senior account manager, and business development m...
7/14/09
LISSMAC GmbH of Bad Wurzach, Germany, a manufacturer and distributor of construction machinery; special purpose equipment, including SBM sheet metal processing machines; and handling equipment, has opened its U.S. headquarters, LISSMAC Corp., in Waterford, N.Y.
"After having exported our machine...
6/2/09
Haven Mfg. Corp., Brunswick, Ga., a manufacturer of tube processing machines, has formed a strategic alliance with SOCO Machinery Co., Ltd. of Taiwan to sell and service respective lines of tube cutting equipment.
Haven will have exclusive U.S. rights to sell SOCO's line of automated tube saws, s...
5/21/09
Industrial Hard Chrome has achieved ISO 9001:2000 registration for its cold finishing, hard-chrome plating, and induction hardening of steel bar and tubing and its manufacture of precision-machined hydraulic piston rods to customer specifications.
The company, located in Geneva, Ill., is a mill ...
5/12/09
MetoKote Corp., Lima, Ohio, is celebrating 40 years as a provider of protective coating application services including electrocoating (e-coat), powder coating, and liquid paint.
The company began in 1969 in a small garage in Ohio, where Jim Blankemeyer and his two brothers built their first pow...
5/12/09
ATI Industrial Automation, an engineering-based developer of robotic peripheral equipment, has completed the purchase of the Speedeburr product line from the Norwegian-based Speedeburr AS. The line has been available through ATI since 1998, sold as Axially-Compliant (AC) deburring tools. Now all man...
5/12/09
DISA Group, a supplier of moulding, sand and core technologies and metal surface finishing systems, has merged with Wheelabrator Group, a provider of surface preparation equipment. Effective May 5, the two companies, both owned by Mid Europa Partners, were given official approval by the German Bunde...
5/6/09
Paulo Products Co. has appointed Bart Stoessel as quality engineer at its St. Louis facility. In this position, he leads the quality management system and works closely with customers on issues relating to product quality.
Stoessel previously worked in quality, operations, and best practices at ...
4/14/09
Specialty Metals Processing, Stow, Ohio, has hired Thomas R. Schmitt as vice president of sales.
He has been in the industry since 1975, when he started his career with Crucible Steel. Since then he has held positions with Washington Steel, Main Steel, and recently as vice president of sales wi...
3/10/09
B.L. Downey Co. LLC, Broadview, Ill., has named Richard L. Metcalf as its quality assurance manager. Metcalf has been with the company since November 2008 and has been involved with the coatings industry for more than 40 years as a technical consultant and in sales.
Before joining the company, Me...
3/10/09
David Lorenz has been promoted to vice president of operations – corporate metallurgist at Kowalski Heat Treating, Cleveland.
In this position, Lorenz is responsible for the development and implementation of improvement initiatives in key areas of distortion-sensitive thermal processing....
2/10/09
The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl. (FMA), Rockford, Ill., has announced a new certification program for precision sheet metal operators for testing and validating their skills in sheet metal forming and fabricating.
The new Precision Sheet Metal Operator (PSMO) Level I Certificati...
12/16/08
Paulo Products Co. has named Bob Innes as plant manager of its St. Louis facility. The facility offers production heat treating in batch and continuous-belt, as well as vacuum heat treating to NADCA requirements. It also provides brazing, induction hardening, aluminum heat treating, cryogenics, blas...
11/11/08
Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc., Tinton Falls, N.J., a national toll processor, has announced the transfer of ownership of its Mexico City operation to the family of the late Jorge Loya Alcala and the current management team. Rodolfo Serrano is the new general manager, replacing Alcala, who died earli...
11/11/08
MetoKote Corp. Inc., Lima, Ohio, a provider of metal finishing processes including electrocoating, powder coating, and liquid paint, has announced the addition of Roger Cook as strategic account manager representing the company's Deere and Co. business. He is based in Lansing, Mich.
Before joinin...
11/11/08
Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc., has announced additions to its plant in Bartlett, Ill. The additions will increase the capacity of the company’s coil polish line and its plate buff line.
In August the company installed a 60,000-lb. by 60-in. Braner uncoiler with an overarm and a sliding base for...
10/14/08
MetoKote Corp., Lima, Ohio, has opened a new facility in San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico. This is the eighth facility in Mexico for the company, which has a total of 38 facilities across North America, South America, and Europe.
The new plant currently operates one high-production electrocoat monor...
10/14/08
Dan Herzog has joined Worldwide Superabrasives, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a supplier of grinding products, as the company's regional sales manager for the Midwest.
He has nearly 40 years of experience in the abrasives industry and was instrumental in forming the Unified Abrasive Manufacturer's Assoc...
10/14/08
Weiler Corp., Cresco, Pa., has promoted Chris Weiler to president and COO and added Jim McDaniel as vice president of sales and marketing.
Weiler is responsible for sales, marketing, and operations. Preceding President and CEO Dick Gommel continues to serve as CEO, and Karl Weiler continues to se...
9/16/08
Acme Mfg. Co., Auburn Hills, Mich., a designer and integrator of automated polishing, buffing, deburring, and grinding systems, has opened an office in Bangalore, India, and hired Guvvala Rajasekhara Reddy as business development manager of the India office.
Reddy has more than 20 years of experi...
8/12/08
SAF (Southern Aluminum Finishing Co. Inc.), Atlanta, has promoted Howard Mount to production manager responsible for all of the company's metal fabricating operations, including shears, brakes, turrets, drills, sanding, and assembly.
Mount, who has been with the company for three years, served mo...
6/17/08
Main Steel Polishing, Tinton Falls, N.J., has promoted Albert Orengo to general manager of its facility in Wheeling, Ill.
Orengo, who has worked at Main Steel for 17 years, served previously as assistant general manager at the company's location in Bartlett, Ill. In that position he worked on ope...
6/17/08
Unist Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich., has promoted Mark Cooper to national sales manager of all of the company's products. He oversees support of the existing independent representatives by traveling to key customers, conducting product training, and assisting with specifying and quoting systems; support...
6/17/08
Schaffner Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, a producer of custom metal finishing products, recently was named a winner of Masco Corporation's 2007 MASTAR awards. The Masco Supplier Team Recognition Program awards suppliers for product quality, on-time delivery, clear communication, effective follow-up, and comp...
3/11/08
American Trim, Lima, Ohio, has acquired a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber designed to allow processing of a chromelike finish without the use of hexavalent chrome and electroplating.
The PVD process uses a base powder coating supplied by DuPont. The powder coating serves as a protective, ...
2/12/08
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show at McCormick Place in Chicago hosted more exhibiting companies and covered more exhibit space than any previous FABTECH. Filling 461,627 sq. ft. of booth space, the show attracted nearly 31,000 visitors from more than 75 countries, a 27 percent...
1/15/08
Bayloff Stamped Products, a third-generation, family-owned automotive stamping company, has appointed Tom Carey as CEO and president.
Carey implements initiatives designed to enhance customer service and position the company for continued growth. He spent more than 20 years in various engineering...
1/15/08
ATI Industrial Automation, Apex, N.C., a developer of robotic peripheral equipment, recently opened a new office in Orion Township, Mich., near Detroit. The office houses the company’s sales, customer service, and training departments and has extra space for inventory.
The company says the new of...
10/9/07
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show, the largest North American showcase of metal forming, fabricating, stamping, tube and pipe, and welding equipment and technology, will return to McCormick Place in Chicago Nov. 11 to Nov. 14.
Cosponsored by the American Welding Society (AWS...
10/9/07
Wheelabrator, LaGrange, Ga., a provider of surface preparation and finishing products, has named Allen Austin as service manager for Wheelabrator Plus, the after-sales division of Wheelabrator Group. The division provides services, replacement parts, training, and equipment upgrades.
Allen works ...
8/7/07
BTD Manufacturing Inc., Detroit Lakes, Minn., has acquired Pro Engineering, Minneapolis. The transaction involved an exchange of cash for assets.
An operating company of Otter Tail Corp., BTD offers design, engineering, prototyping, short-run applications, metal stamping, robotic and hand welding...
8/7/07
Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc., Tinton Falls, N.J., has announced the relocation of its Dallas plant to a newer, larger facility in Arlington, Tex.
The 70,000-sq.-ft. building has three cranes—two 10-ton units and one 20-ton—and a Herr-Voss Stamco 1¾-in. leveler already i...
7/10/07
Every sales and engineering staff member of Vulcanium® Corp., Northbrook, Ill., has passed the Certified Electroplater-Finisher (CEF) exam.
Salesman Sam Stella is a CEF 3. Salesmen Terry Ciszewski and Steve Gerzel have qualified for CEF 2. Company members who have completed the CEF 1 desi...
7/10/07
The American Galvanizers Association (AGA), Centennial, Colo., has introduced a Web-based software program that automatically calculates the life-cycle cost of many common coating systems in comparison to the cost of hot-dip galvanizing.
The calculator, based on standard financial equations of ...
7/10/07
Management consultant, trainer, and author Michael P. Collins will address the decline of U.S. manufacturing when he presents the keynote address at the FIN-X '07 conference and expo for industrial finishers. The event is scheduled for Sept. 17 to 20 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis....
6/12/07
Dean A. Sundquist, chairman and CEO of Mate Precision Tooling, has announced the appointment of Jack Schneider to the newly created position of vice chairman and Kevin Nicholson to the position of president.
"In the new position of vice chairman, Jack Schneider will focus on strategic and corpora...
6/5/07
Tim McLaughlin recently joined Wheelabrator Group as sales manager overseeing Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
McLaughlin has 31 years of mechanical surface preparation experience, specifically with abrasive and equipment blast cleaning and peening applications. In 2004 he retired as CEO of McL...
5/8/07
Vulcanium Corp. has added Stella Reeves to its sales staff.
Reeves has a background in chemical troubleshooting and electroplating and has worked for more than 20 years in laboratories and sales, overseeing quality programs and providing technical assistance.
Reeves' business experience has be...
5/8/07
Hans Weber Corp., Olathe, Kan., the North American sales and marketing subsidiary for Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Kronach, Germany, has appointed Brian Hilscher as regional sales manager.
The company markets the Weber line of metal grinding and finishing machines....
4/10/07
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania has added a third 24-ft. 75,000 lb. capacity furnace, which is being constructed onsite by Solar Manufacturing. The Hermitage, Pa., plant specializes in vacuum heat treating and brazing.
In 2006 the company added 16,000 square feet of floor space and its...
4/10/07
Electrex Company, Inc, Harrison Township, Mich., is celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
Established in 1957 to provide electrical contracting, the company installed primary services and wired buildings, presses, and other machines. In the 1980s, with the energy crisis depressing economic growth, an...
3/13/07
Mate Precision Tooling, Anoka, Minn., has promoted Paul Sandberg to the position of vice president international sales. Sandberg assumed the position from Chet Ferger, who will continue on with the company in a newly created position of vice president of key account sales for North America.
Sandb...
2/13/07
Wheelabrator Plus, LaGrange, Ga., has announced that Tim McLaughlin has joined the company as territory account manager responsible for Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
McLaughlin, who has more than 31 years of experience in abrasive blast cleaning equipment, peening applications, and abrasives...
2/13/07
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products has announced that after nearly four years of technical discussions and meetings, Ingalls Shipyards in Mississippi, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and Avondale Shipyards in Louisiana have placed orders with the company for a new panel cutting machine. Both...
2/13/07
Paulo Products Co. has added two surface treatments at its St. Louis, Mo., facility.
Paulo – St. Louis now has the capability to perform gas nitriding. Gas nitriding is carried out in a sealed retort with an ammonia atmosphere at temperatures at or near 1,000 degrees F. Typical cycle times ...
2/13/07
AHT Corp., Waterloo, Iowa, plans to open another UltraGlow® service center in Cullman, Ala.
According to the company, the Cullman facility will have a complete line of UltraGlow ion nitriding vessels to process case-hardened metal parts to extend wear from 200 percent to 800 percent. The sur...
12/12/06
St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M recently announced plans to expand manufacturing operations for its superabrasives business. Operations currently housed in a small facility in Whippany, New Jersey, will move to a larger 3M facility in Flemington, New Jersey. All employees from the Whippany operations will ...
11/27/06
OEM Fabricators Inc., Woodville, Wis., received a grant from Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton to begin construction on a new facility in Neillsville, Wis.
The 50,000-sq.-ft facility will be used to build large components for OEMs and is expected to begin operation in early 2007. Processes that will be per...
11/7/06
International Paint LLC, Houston, a division of Akzo Nobel, has hired Bob Bernard as engineering account executive for the high-value infrastructure markets in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Bernard helps to direct the company's long-term efforts for developing brand awareness and growth ...
11/7/06
Vulcanium Corp., Northbrook, Ill., has named Rick Piacenza as director of sales. He is responsible for managing and targeting sales efforts for both anodizing and plating systems.
Piacenza directs both inside and outside sales staffs and identifies attractive markets for company products and serv...
11/7/06
International Paint LLC, Houston, has hired Kevin Coleman as protective coatings regional sales manager for the Southeast.
Coleman helps to direct the company's long-term efforts for expanding its protective coatings customer base in that region.
Coleman previously was employed as director of ...
9/12/06
Osborn Intl. North America, Cleveland, has named Richard M. Halen Jr. as president.
Halen has a background in manufacturing, engineering, operations, sales, marketing, and strategic planning. He was vice president, general manager of American Nickeloid, a coil coating, plating, and laminating fir...
9/12/06
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle honored Linetec as an exemplary employer committed to the principles of diversity in the workplace. The State of Wisconsin's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) and the NorthCentral Technical College (NTC) nominated the Wausau-based architectural metals finishing...
6/13/06
Wall Colmonoy Corp., Madison Heights, Mich., has named Morris Warino as business development manager for Wall Colmonoy Oklahoma City, which part of the WCC Aeronautical and Aerospace Group.
Morris has 17 years' experience in marketing and sales experience as the national sales manager for a manuf...
6/13/06
Weiler Corp. has announced plans to expand its Cresco, Pa.-based facility. The building project encompasses a 25,000-sq.-ft. addition to it offices and a 16,000-sq.-ft. addition to its distribution center.
The company also has hired Jeffry W. Smith as vice president of information technology. He ...
5/9/06
Abtex Corp., Victor, N.Y., has updated its fiber abrasive products catalog.
The 24-page catalog includes new products and new specifications for existing products.
Each product line in the new catalog is color-coded. Color coding begins in the table of contents, continues with margin tabs on e...
5/9/06
FKM-USA, the North American division of FKM-Walzentechnik, Duisburg, Germany, has relocated its North American headquarters to Frankfort, Ill.
The new facility has 3,000 sq. ft. of office space and 30,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space. There are three manufacturing bays, each equipped with a 25,...
5/9/06
Unaxis has announced that its coating services business unit, Balzers, has acquired the PVD coating operations of Gold Star Coatings, a subsidiary of the industrial tooling group Star Cutter Co.
Balzers assumes the function of coating partner for the tool resharpening sevice centers operated by ...
5/9/06
Wall Colmonoy Corp., Madison Heights, Mich., has elected John Sturch as vice president of the company's Aeronautical and Aerospace group.
Sturch is responsible for business development and growth for the company’s FAA-licensed repair stations in Oklahoma City and San Antonio. He has acquired than...
4/11/06
Vulcanium® Corp. has hired James Sovik to handle outside sales and design for both the anodizing and plating units. He serves as a liaison between the sales and engineering departments and OEMs.
Sovik trains clients on the company’s products and represents the company at tradeshows and with trade...
3/7/06
D.A. Stuart, Warrenville, Ill., has appointed Charlie Santangelo as vice president of operations effective in May. Santangelo replaces Gene Carline, who has announced his retirement.
Santangelo joined the company in 1979 as corporate technical director of rolling oils. Since then he has held seve...
3/7/06
Team Metal Fabricators, Addison, Ill., has updated its Web site, www.teammetalfabricators.com, to promote its custom fabrication services.
The site features the company's products and services, including engineering, metal cutting, forming, welding, polishing, and CNC machining....
2/7/06
Specialty Metals Processing has moved its corporate staff to its new Finishing Facility in Akron, Ohio.
The facility was designed for precision grinding, polishing, and buffing sheet and plate and special custom finishing.
The company’s Stow, Ohio, location continues to offer slitting with co...
1/10/06
Linetec, Wausau, Wis., has named Jon Close as its director of architectural and commercial sales.
Close oversees the company’s outside sales, inside sales, estimating, and marketing departments for its architectural and commercial business. Previously Close served as the company’s regional sales ...
1/10/06
Tucker Induction Systems, Shelby Twp., Mich., has appointed Micah Black, an induction heating author and industry speaker, as chief engineer/sales engineer. In this position, Black oversees the development and installation of the company’s induction tooling, including a new line of standard inductio...
12/13/05
Paulo Products Co., Murfreesboro, Tenn., has earned ISO/TS 16949:2002 accreditation.
This is the second Paulo facility to earn the accreditation. The company’s Nashville, Tenn. facility earned the accreditation in April 2005, and other facilities currently are working toward earning the upgrade....
12/13/05
Osborn Intl., Cleveland, has announced the completion of its new brush manufacturing and distribution facility in Richmond, Ind.
The 180,000-sq.-ft. plant produces 70 percent of all Osborn power brush products. The company says the move was necessary because of an expanding Midwest customer base...
11/8/05
The American Galvanizers Association has announced its 12th annual Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards competition.
The awards, which are presented annually, recognize projects that utilize hot-dip galvanizing in an ideal, creative, innovative, or monumental fashion. Award categories are: ar...
10/11/05
Daubert VCI Inc. and Cromwell-Phoenix Inc., manufacturers of corrosion inhibitor packaging, have completed their merger to form Daubert Cromwell. With the completion of the merger, the company has appointed Roy Galman as its vice president of operations and Martin Simpson as its vice president of sa...
10/11/05
Mid Atlantic Machinery, Harrisburg, Pa., has announced it has launched a new Web site.
The site promotes the company’s product lines as well as used and stock machinery. It highlights management and staff and provides the latest news and information....
10/11/05
Linetec, Wausau, Wis., has been accredited as a PPG Certified Applicator Program (PPG/CAP) member, which means the company has been approved to apply exterior PPG coatings such as Duranar® and Coraflon® Kynar 500®/Hylar 5000® coatings.
9/13/05
Weiler Corp. has acquired Conicity Technologies LLC. Founded in 1999, Conicity developed the patented Engineered Micro-Geometry™ (EMG) technology for preparing cutting tool edges.
Weiler Corp. manufactures power and abrasive nylon brushes, abrasives, and maintenance products....
6/14/05
International Paint LLC, a division of Akzo Nobel, has opened a Chicago distribution center.
Previously located in Louisville, Ky., the new, 10,000-sq.-ft. facility located at 931 N. DuPage Ave., Lombard, Ill., offers protective and specialty coatings to industrial, petroleum, and marine mark...
5/10/05
North American Galvanizing & Coatings Inc. has reached a tentative agreement with Gregory Industries Inc. to purchase Gregory's hot-dip galvanizing assets located in Canton, Ohio.
The acquisition expands North American Galvanizing Co.'s service area into the northeast U.S. and increases the tot...
4/12/05
Balzers, a provider of PVD coatings, is inaugurating a research laboratory in Innsbruck, Austria, together with three Austria-based partners: Plansee AG, the Montan University Leoben, and the University of Innsbruck. Research will focus on the development and characterization of innovative, thin, ha...
7/13/04
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