Industry News

News • March 14, 2022

Aiming to improve firearms marking

The firearms industry, like every manufacturing industry, has product marking requirements. In this industry, however, marking is an even more essential process; and one that is rigidly regulated by law.

News • March 11, 2022

CNC Software appoints sales director

CNC Software LLC, the developers of Mastercam, named Nicolas Le Moigne as its director of sales for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

News • March 10, 2022

West Ohio Tool wins small-business award

West Ohio Tool Co. won the Columbus Blue Jackets Small Business of the Month award presented by First Merchants Bank contest. As the month of January winner, West Ohio Tool Co. received recognition as the featured company during a Blue Jackets game on Wednesday, January 26. They are one of six small businesses recognized during the season.

News • March 9, 2022

GF Machining Solutions names new president of North America

GF Machining Solutions has named Chris Jones as the company's president and managing director of North America.

News • March 8, 2022 • Thomson Mathew

Six ways to beef up cybersecurity

While smart factories are revolutionizing the manufacturing industry through innovation, being connected comes with new risk factors that must be addressed. A Deloitte study revealed that 48% of manufacturers identified operational risks—including cybersecurity—as the greatest danger to their factories.

News • March 7, 2022

Transor Filter names regional account executive

Transor Filter USA named Mark Baltyn to its sales team as a regional account executive. Baltyn is a veteran of the machine tool field having spent more than 15 years with Hirschmann Engineering providing tooling solutions for a wide range of manufacturing.

News • March 4, 2022

Hi Pro Equipment earns 2021 Eriez Merwin Award

North American sales award recognizes one Eriez manufacturers' representative annually for outstanding service, sales and support.

News • March 3, 2022

H.B. Carbide adds Mexico-based rep to sales network

H.B. Carbide, a Lewiston, Michigan-based manufacturer and global supplier of carbide blanks and pre-forms, has expanded its sales network into Mexico and Latin America through a partnership with Bu-Mac Technology Solutions in Querétaro, Mexico, led by Carlos Cortes as the local agent for all inquiries, technical, service, commercial requests.

News • March 2, 2022

Allied Machine donates boring tools to restore a WW2 submarine

Wohlhaupter Tooling and boring tools from Allied Machine are helping to preserve the Pampanito, a World War II submarine.

News • March 1, 2022

Reshoring/manufacturing perspectives for near-post-COVID

JM Performance Products and The Reshoring Initiative analyze "near-post-COVID" parameters with a trajectory focus on training, technology, supply chain, production, and reshoring.

News • February 28, 2022 • Dennis Spaeth

USCTI scholarship helps part-time student with a full-time engineering job

In an email to Cutting Tool Engineering, Kaylee Dudek, a full-time employee in the application engineering department at Allied Machine & Engineering, Dover, Ohio, describes the impact of winning a $5,000 scholarship from the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute. n

News • February 28, 2022

Simplified CMM inspection for productive quality control

WLR Precision Engineering is a contract machining specialist in Wilford, Nottinghamshire, and the company was using a pair of 15-year-old coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) in its inspection room. Looking to upgrade the technology, WLR Precision invested in two CMMs manufactured by LK Metrology. Soon, they had largely superseded the older CMMs.