Industry News

News • December 15, 2020

Mazak’s virtual tour of its Kentucky HQ

Mazak Corp. launched a 360° Virtual Campus Tour allowing manufacturers to explore its Florence, Kentucky-based headquarters in action without having to leave home. The tour is part of the company’s range of holistic digital experiences. “I’m proud to come to work every day at one of the world’s most advanced manufacturing facilities,” said Mazak president...

News • December 14, 2020 • Mike Hook

Getting value from waste streams

Making investments to facilitate operational improvements—and financing those investments in a way that preserves cash flow—will be critical to sustainable growth. Here is what manufacturers should consider to make the most of this opportunity when it comes to achieving value from waste streams.

News • December 14, 2020

Lathes, CNCs repaired with Vesconite Hilube wear pads

Wear pads between the saddle and the machining bed on lathes and CNC machines are being replaced with a wear-resistant polymer known as Vesconite Hilube

News • December 10, 2020

ARCH Cutting Tools takes top prize in Tool of the Year competition

With 28 entries, 1.2 million social impressions and almost 4500 votes, ANCA's Tool of the Year winner was ARCH Cutting Tool's entry that demonstrated the use of multiple ANCA'S iGrind machine operations with several complex profiles.

News • December 9, 2020

GWS Tool Group names key personnel

GWS Tool Group in Tavares, Florida, has bolstered its applications and sales expertise in California and Northern Mexico with the appointment of two specialists.

News • December 8, 2020

Pandemic, labor and productivity needs are drivers for automation

More than a third of manufacturers say the Covid-19 pandemic is a catalyst for increasing automation, and additional drivers for adding and expanding automation include the need for increased productivity and a shortage of skilled workers, according to a new survey from MC Machinery of Elk Grove Village, Illinois.

News • December 7, 2020

Reshoring up in 2020

Despite COVID, reshoring is up in 2020 and by year's end total numbers should top more than a million jobs coming back to the U.S. in the last decade, according to a new report from the Reshoring Initiative.

News • December 4, 2020

TDM Systems names DSI as a value-added reseller

TDM Systems, the Schaumburg, Illinois, provider of tool data management systems has appointed Desarrollo de Sistemas Informáticos (DSI) as a value-added reseller of TDM software in Mexico.

News • December 3, 2020

Advent announces new location

Advent Tool and Manufacturing Inc., a custom manufacturer of thread and form milling products has announced a new facility and headquarters for its company. The firm, established in 1974 as a job shop serving the manufacturing industry, has opened its new location in Trevor, Wisconsin. According to the Milwaukee Business Journal, the company will lease...

News • December 2, 2020

Eriez presents Weinacht & Associates with top sales award

Eriez-USA awarded Weinacht & Associates, a Collinsville, Illinois-based metalworking equipment distributor of Eriez products, with the company's 2019 Merwin Award.

News • December 1, 2020

September cutting tool orders up 14.7% compared to August

September 2020 U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $156.1 million. This total, as reported by companies participating in the Cutting Tool Market Report collaboration, was up 14.7 percent from August's $136.1 million and down 20.5 percent when compared with the $196.3 million reported for September 2019.

News • November 30, 2020

Inovatools’ tooling eases aluminum machining

A new line of aluminum tools from Inovatools utilizes the ta-C thin-layered coating that the company says makes the process of machining aluminum and its alloys more productive and cost-effective.