Niles Expanded Metals, Niles, OH, has updated it website and now offers the ability to view application photos, read up on the latest industry news for expanded metal products and technologies, check order status, request on-line quotes and more. Check it out at...
Thanks to its new Red Bud high-speed multi-cut blanking line, Genmak Steel, LLC, Sharon, PA, now boasts increased ability to compete in the market for smaller close-tolerance blanks. The firm recognized a market shift that required it to deliver more accuracy with quicker setups, so that it...
Specialty Rim Supply, a supplier of spun aluminum rims to the automotive aftermarket since 1992, has been awarded two patents for its development of a "soft-look" outer. The rim design gives the wheel a big, deep look and enables wheel manufacturers to offer several offset options to consumers...
Machinery Consultants Inc., Duarte, CA, has been appointed the new distributor for The Minster Machine Company in the Southern California region. Machinery Consultants is a 20-year-old family-run business that specializes in metal-stamping and sheetmetal-fabricating machinery. It's on the web at...
Hanna Steel Corp., Gadsden AL, recently passed its intensive 2-day audit, following an 8-month preparation and implementation period, to earn QS 9000 certification for quality manufacturing management systems. As one of the few steel-service centers in the south to receive QS 9000 certification...
Late this year, stainless-steel and nickel-ally distributor Ferguson Metals Inc., Hamilton, OH, will take delivery of a 50-in. dual-head slitter from Braner USA, Schiller Par, IL. The slitter will process sheet 0.009 to 0.135-in. thick. "The new equipment will allow us to process more material...
Bolsan Company Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, will provide laminated aluminum sheet to Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Wichita, KS, and Seattle, WA. Delivery of the sheet begins this month-Boeing-Wichita will convert the material into shims and spacers for closing small gaps in complex fabricated parts....
Ford Motor Company recently presented Brankamp Process Automation, Cambridge, MA, with its Q1 Award, for its process-monitoring devices. Requirements for the award are an ongoing relationship with Ford, certification to ISO 9000 as well as implementation of the Ford Quality Operation System....
The Toyota Motor Co. plans to construct an automotive manufacturing plant just outside Tijuana, Mexico. Slated for a 2004 opening, the plant would produce beds for pickup trucks built at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., a General Motors/Toyota joint-venture facility in Fremont, CA. The plant...
Roll supplier Roll-Kraft announced the acquisition of two Mori-Seki CNC lathes in the fourth quarter of 2001. Roll-Kraft expects that the additional machine capacity, coupled with several recently implemented continuous-process improvements, will shorten manufacturing lead times at its Mentor,...
