General Shop Equipment & Supplies

ROCHESTER HILLS, MI – (Aug. 3, 2018) FANUC America Corporation, a supplier of robotics, CNC systems, ROBOMACHINEs and Industrial IoT solutions has announced plans to construct a new facility in Auburn Hills, MI that will be used for engineering, product development, manufacturing and warehousing.

Greensburg, PA – General Carbide Corporation, a vertically integrated manufacturer of finished tooling for a wide range of industrial wear and metal forming applications, marked a half-century in business with a picnic and carnival for employees and their families, as well as for customers and suppliers.

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.

Velo3D announced the general release of its end-to-end metal additive manufacturing (AM) solution comprised of the Sapphire system, Flow print preparation software and Intelligent Fusion technology. Together, the integrated solution solves some of the most difficult AM challenges, including product design limitations, part-to-part consistency, process control and cost-effective manufacturing.

In today's machining world standard parts are no longer a business. Only with highly specialized applications shops continue to grow. KERN Precision Inc. introduces a new 5-axis machining center. Based on the KERN Micro, the new KERN Micro Pro has been adjusted and equipped to fit perfectly well into shops and provide shops with the opportunity to manufacture highly specialized parts.

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.

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.