Danaher Corp. (DHR) and Cooper Industries (CBE) Plc are seeking buyers for their jointly owned toolmaking business, said two people with knowledge of the matter. Apex Tool Group may fetch $1.5 billion or more and attract interest from ...
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It's easier to carve an apple with a knife than an axe. The same goes for manufacturing, where plants are increasingly building things with precise, programmable electric tools instead of machines run on compressed air. Industry groups say ...
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Even after Stanley Black & Decker shareholders rejected the tool and security company's executive pay plan last spring, the company paid Nolan D. Archibald, its executive chairman and the former CEO of Black & Decker, a total of $64.4 ...
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Sears Holdings Corp. paid its chief executive $9.9 million last year, including incentives the ailing department store operator offered to lure the former technology executive, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory ...
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Table saws sold in California after jan. 1, 2015 would need to include flesh-detecting technology integrated to an electronic saw blade brake, under proposed legislation. California's State Assemblyman Das Williams (D-Santa Barbara) ...
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Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close 53 hardware stores in the first half of 2012, the company said in its annual report filed late Wednesday. The closures include 43 Sears hometown dealer stores and 10 Sears Hardware stores. Hometown stores ...
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The Bosch Power Tools Division can look back on 2011 as a successful year of business: sales increased by more than seven percent to 3.8 billion euros. The division generated 90 percent of its sales outside of Germany. "We have again ...
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Tool franchise Snap-on Tools Australia says it is getting a strong response from new franchisees to its private funding offering, which has been designed to effectively cut out traditional lenders in the franchise market. Operating in ...
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Why Is Tool Balancing So Important? Balancing standards have increased dramatically in recent years due to the emergence of high performance machines utilizing higher RPMs and feed rates. Modern machinery is engineered to produce faster ...
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Use Accurate Tool Holding Systems In order to optimize precision cutting tools for woodworking and other machining processes, it is critical that the tools are held accurately. Traditional mechanical collet systems are sufficient for short ...
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Blueberry Beeton’s late mother, Patsy Hennin, was fond of saying, “I may not be able to bash that beam into place, but I’m going to get it in there somehow.” Hennin, who founded the Shelter Institute in 1974 with her ...
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Are any industry sectors more mobile than utilities? Apart from public transport, delivery services such as UPS and FedEx, and law enforcement, there are no vehicles and workers more visible than ours. Many utility workers can be described ...
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Stryker announced the release of System 7 – the next generation of heavy duty surgical power tools for use in total joint procedures, such as hip and knee replacements. System 7 offers the latest in advanced cutting technology, ...
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Sprawling across a vast area of 1500 square feet, the store curtails 2000 stock-keeping units and offers hand tools and equipments that are required in the day-to-day lives of the consumer- both for industrial and home use. Offering an ...
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Devout do-it-yourselfers made pilgrimages to the Fredericksburg Expo Center for a Wood Working & D.I.Y. Shows tour stop Friday and Saturday. According to a tour spokesman, nearly 5,000 people, mostly Baby Boomers into home renovation as a ...
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