People & Companies

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(Phillipsburg, NJ) Bihler of America, a provider of complex components manufacturing and machines, recently opened a new 103,000 square foot facility.

ATA, an Irish-owned and Cavan-headquartered international precision engineering group with facilities in Ireland, the UK and the USA, has acquired Karnasch Professional Tools GmbH located in Heddesheim, near Mannheim and in Gorsdorf, near Berlin.

St. Paul, MN --- Matsuura Machinery USA, Inc. announces the promotion of Cassandra Yanke to Logistics and Project Manager.

In addition to three large horizontal milling machines with a maximum clamping weight of three tons, there are numerous CNC lathes, machining centers and bandsaws. The highly skilled workforce produces housings as well as drive parts for VETEC valves in two-shift operation. In addition to carbon and stainless steel, materials such as titanium, zirconium and numerous specialist alloys are used in the Speyer, Germany, plant.

St. Paul, MN --- Matsuura Machinery USA, Inc. announces the selection of Shannon Collett as the company's Matsuura LUMEX Administrator.

Acton, MA – Methods Machine Tools is excited to announce the grand opening of its new Precision Center in Acton, Massachusetts.

CRESCO, PA. — Weiler Abrasives, a provider of abrasives, power brushes and maintenance products for surface conditioning kicked off what will be a months-long celebration of its 75th anniversary with its National Sales Meeting the week of April 22.

Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto) today announced that it has concluded an agreement to acquire 100% ownership of SouthernCarlson, Inc. (CEO: Kenneth D. Sweder), a U.S. distributor of tools, fasteners, packaging and facility supplies, headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Eriez Director of Heavy Industry Darrell Milton announces that Goodyear, Arizona-based Industrial Applications Group has been appointed as a new Eriez manufacturers' representative for the metalworking market. The Industrial Applications Group sales team will exclusively market Eriez metalworking equipment and cover the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.n

North Kingstown, RI – Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division announced today it has broken ground on the construction of a new expansion project on a 5-acre site in Novi, MI.

API and Kadan Consultants have announced their partnership to make API's Radian Laser Tracker series ready for distribution and metrology services to expand coverage to underserved West Coast industries.