Industry News

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that manufacturers added 22,000 workers in March, extending the 32,000 gain in employment in February. It was the sixth consecutive month with robust hiring growth in the sector, averaging 27,167 per month over that time frame.

LMT Onsrud LP, Waukegan, Ill., hired Roger Piekarski as sales and applications specialist for North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Manitoba in Canada.

John and Miles O'Brien are two of a few South Bend, Ind., business founders whose product is still being manufactured in the United States. John and Miles, born in Ireland in 1868, were identical twins whose family immigrated to the U.S., settling in Connecticut in the 1870s. At the age of 35, they went into business for themselves in a one-room building at the corner of West Washington and Johnson streets in South Bend. They began manufacturing lathes, at the time the most vital machine for any industry using metal or steel parts.

There's a very old parable, thought to have originated in the Indian subcontinent, of six blind (or blind-folded) men asked to describe an elephant. They reach different conclusions depending upon which part of the elephant they touch: side – it's like a wall; leg – it's like a tree; trunk – it's like a snake; tusk – it's like a spear; ear – it's like a fan; and tail – it's like a rope.n

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Haas Automation Inc.'s first vertical machining center, the VF-1.

The surface treatment global business unit of Ludwigshafen, Germany-based BASF SE's coatings division, operating under the Chemetall brand, opened a laboratory at its 38,700-sq.-ft. manufacturing and office facility in Querétaro, Mexico.

Liftomatic Material Handling Inc., Buffalo Grove, Ill., a material-handling equipment manufacturer, announced the opening of Asian headquarters in the near future.

A rotary tooling development manager started March 19 and operates out of the office in Pittsburgh.

Tap Associates Inc. is now available on MachiningCloud Inc.

OSG USA Inc. now distributes Somta Tools (Pty) Ltd. tools in the United States.

Röhm Products of America, Suwanee, Ga., a provider of clamping and gripping technology for the metalworking industry, expanded its sales team with the addition of Steven Onik as national sales manager and Yusuf Ali as regional sales manager for Canada.

Sylvain Julien joined Kordt GmbH & Co. KG as key account manager of international projects.