Industry News

How old is your mobile phone? If you’re thinking about your current device, it’s likely that you change it every couple of years following the release of a fancy new upgrade. In reality, mobile telephones as old as the brick-like, antennae inventions of the 1980s probably remain in landfills. With many of our planet’s environmental issues linked to human consumption, it’s time to rethink our "take-make-dispose" economy.

Elk Grove Village, Illinois-based MC Machinery Systems Inc. welcomes Craig Barbeck to the MC Machinery team as a regional sales representative for the northern Ohio territory. Barbeck will support the sales team with a focus on laser and press brake products.

The primary focus of metalworking applications revolves around maximizing efficiency of machinery and operations. Thus it is preferable to use metalworking fluids that are multifunctional in nature. Significant growth in metalworking processes worldwide have propelled demand for metalworking fluids. However, metalworking fluids used for machineries have undergone intense regulatory scrutiny in last two decades.

Milwaukee-based Jason Industries, a diversified corporation with Osborn and Milsco business units, has announced the planned acquisition of The Matchless Metal Polish Co., Chicago. This acquisition will offer customers access to a global leader with a single, unmatched portfolio that provides solutions for surface preparation, cutting, cleaning and finishing supported by exceptional technical expertise, delivery and quality. Matchless will be incorporated into Osborn, which is the primary business unit serving the Industrial market segment for Jason Industries.

Noblesville, Indiana-based Index has named Iniram Precision Machine Tool as its distributor of record for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, western Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia. The move reflects Index’s ongoing strategy of partnering with distributors who can offer standard-setting service and support to help meet the needs of a rapidly expanding customer base.

In 2020, companies in the industrial supply sector should be neither bullish nor bearish but remain status quo. Consider the mixed U.S. economic performance in 2019 that benefited from an unexpected rise in the employment labor participation rate and corresponding lower unemployment rate but from a gross domestic product standpoint saw a dip compared with 2018.

Tacoma, WA — Stellar Industrial Supply, which distributes more than 35,000 MRO (maintenance, repair and operation) products and tools from more than 1,500 brands for Safety, Metalworking, Marine Supply, Aerospace, and other general manufacturing and processing organizations, and also offers customized Indirect Material Management solutions, today named partner 3M as the winner of its Documented Cost Savings “Horse Race” Winner of the Year award for 2019.

February 26, 2020 – Beckhoff Automation LLC has moved its regional office in Charlotte, North Carolina, to a larger location to meet constant growth in customer base and market share in the area. Boasting nearly 4,400 sq. ft., the new office offers exciting advantages compared to the previous Charlotte location that Beckhoff opened in 2012.

Rich Ruff has joined Cincinnati-based Cleaning Technologies Group LLC as a Ransohoff regional sales manager.

Starrag USA announces that Justin Hogan has joined the team as the new Bumotec process engineer. He has 16 years of combined experience in the tool and die, aerospace and medical Industries.

To meet the challenges of the metal treating industry, Solar Atmospheres purchased and commissioned a Hitachi smart Scanning Electron Microscope. The FlexSEM1000 II will allow Solar to meet customer needs, such as strict requirements for low level contamination from carbon, oxygen and/or nitrogen post heat treating.

Industrial process success is most commonly defined by two parameters: production rate and yield. In the simplest terms, make as much as you can in the shortest amount of time. Understanding both the process requirements and production environment allows companies to optimize their production rates, resulting in lower cost per part and higher profit.

Paul Carlson has been named president and CEO of Tolomatic Inc., Minneapolis. Carlson has more than 30 years of manufacturing experience serving a broad spectrum of industrial, commercial, food and beverage markets globally.

The transformational wave sweeping across numerous industrial sectors and markets is presenting companies with new and ever-shifting challenges, and this is also applies to industrial component and surface cleaning. This trend is fully reflected by parts2clean 2020, which takes place Oct. 27-29 in Stuttgart, Germany. For virtually every high-tech application in the fields of manufacturing and reprocessing, parts2clean is the information and procurement platform of choice for users of industrial cleaning technology.

The ability to “see through” a solid object was once thought to be a tool of the future, or a power belonging to Superman–but the technology is here today, and more widespread and accessible than you may have though

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. announced that Vincent K. Petrella, executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, will be succeeded by current executive vice president, finance, Gabriel Bruno, effective April 22, 2020. Petrella will continue to serve as executive vice president to assist the executive team with the transition of the finance and corporate strategy organization until his retirement later this year.

Jacob Schieffer has joined Beckhoff Automation LLC as central regional sales manager. Based at the subsidiary’s headquarters in Savage, Minneapolis, Schieffer will oversee sales development of new and longstanding customers throughout the Midwest, covering all key automation markets and centers of innovation.

Customers and partners of BIG KAISER Precision Tooling teamed up to generate a $7,283 donation to benefit the National Robotics League (NRL). The amount is nearly 10% more than last year and the fourth year-over-year increase in NRL funding from BIG KAISER.

It took six years of experimentation and trial and error along with tool grinding know-how for West Ohio Tool Co., a specialty cutting tool shop in Russells Point, Ohio, to develop its own commercially available cutting tool. The revolutionary tool is a solid PCD drill that generates from 800,000 to 1,000,000 holes in die cast aluminum without regrind or re-tipping required.

Imagine you’re trying to learn a new tune on the piano, but the sheet music only has one note out of every ten. Wouldn’t that be pretty hard? That’s what it’s like learning what your machine is doing with data that only plays a few notes from the entire piece. Just like Chopin, a machine writes complex, nuanced melodies that get shortchanged when an incomplete picture is represented in the notes it plays, the data.