Industry News

Chemcoaters Inc., Gary, Indiana, Bill Krippes, Director of New Product Development, is officially retiring from Chemcoaters on July 28, 2018, after 16 years of dedicated service.

Vero Software has added new Application Engineer Joe Sanders to its growing team of talented support engineers, where he will lend his expertise in support of the company's Edgecam customers.

ROCKFORD, IL, July 26, 2018 – Bourn & Koch, an American manufacturer of new precision machine tools including Bourn & Koch gear hobbers, Fellows gear shapers, Blanchard surface grinders, and Springfield vertical grinders is expanding their distributor network for these brands across the US and into Canada.

CLEVELAND, Friday, July 27, 2018 – Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., (the "Company") (Nasdaq: LECO) announced today the promotion of David J. Nangle to Executive Vice President of Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. effective July 19, 2018.

SCHUNK is proud to announce the promotion of Matt Steele to Director of Sales for Tooling and Workholding.

Scappoose, Oregon; July 19, 2018 – The Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center Research and Development (OMIC R&D) continues to grow its company membership with the addition this month of global cutting tools manufacturer Sandvik Coromant.

Aldan, PA- "Your production partner" KAAST Machine Tools has officially moved to their new home in Aldan, PA.

Over 6,000 of Allied Machine's holemaking products can now be found on MachiningCloud.

HARTLAND, Wis., (July 17, 2018) — Scott Kelley has been appointed Vice President – Sales of U.S. Operations for Dorner.

With the new norm of global uncertainty, suppliers and customers alike must retool their thinking and business models to mitigate risk—be it political, economic, social or climatic. The urgency created by the current political climate is accelerating the technology development already underway. Companies caught in the crosshairs of a trade war will lose ground to those that strategically invest in developing an agile supply chain.

As discussed in a recent issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine in the feature article "Lean into it," a little lean manufacturing goes a long way. One factor that tends to trip up people and companies on their way to establishing lean cultures is sustainment. Phillip Canipe, vice president of sales and business development for the Southwest region at Stellar Industrial Supply Inc. in Tacoma, Washington, said 90 percent of companies are reluctant to re-examine processes that already have been inspected and improved.

A.T. Kearney published its fourth annual study on reshoring. The new release shows record imports in 2017 from traditional offshoring countries.