Ryan Hodgkins joined Big Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc., Hoffman Estates, Ill., in New England to support customers in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.
Motion Industries Inc., Birmingham, Ala., a distributor of maintenance, repair and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Co., will open a distribution center in Auburn, Wash., in late spring.
GF Machining Solutions LLC, Lincolnshire, Ill., will unveil its Aerospace and Energy Center of Competence at a grand opening that will begin with an evening welcome reception at the Carolina Aviation Museum at 6 p.m. April 24 and continue with an open house at the center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 25.
Enabling further advancements in metrology, Heidenhain Corp., Schaumburg, Ill., donated equipment to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Center for Precision Metrology, a premier metrology lab.
Stellar Industrial Supply Inc., Tacoma, Wash., named partner 3M Co., St. Paul, Minn., the winner of its Documented Cost Savings "Horse Race" Winner of the Year Award for 2017.
Doosan Machine Tools announces the addition of the DNM 4000 to its line of vertical machining centers. This compact VMC was designed for lean cell applications where space is tight, but productivity and cutting performance are essential.
Fallbrook Technologies Inc., Cedar Park, Texas, announced that Roger Wood, former CEO of publicly traded Dana Holding Corp., will become the CEO and chairman of the board for the privately held developer and licenser of the patented NuVinci continuously variable planetary transmission technology.
Eriez Manufacturing Co., Erie, Pa., announced that Michael J. Mankosa, executive vice president of global technology, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.