Bruce Chantry, Equipment Portfolio Manager, The Lincoln Electric Company In a competitive global economy, efficiency reigns supreme on the shop floor, especially when it comes to overall equipment effectiveness. With this in mind, ...
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PA Consulting Group's second annual benchmarking study of manufacturing companies shows that the companies under review have improved their green performance since early 2011.The benchmarking analysis is a snapshot of four global ...
Outokumpu delivered duplex stainless steel for biogas tanks built by German biogas tank manufacturer Börger GmbH. Tanks built in LDX 2404® and LDX 2101® are now up and running. Lean duplex stainless steel is proving to be an ...
Lydall Performance Materials will implement a general price increase for orders shipped on or after 1 December 2012.Increases will range from 2–6%across most lines,but some specialty products will see prices rise by up to 15%.The ...
WAC Lighting President Shelley Wald has announced that the Vela Organic LED Chandelier and Wall Sconce have won a Product Innovation Award from Architectural Products magazine. The awards recognize outstanding products and applications in ...
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An innovative, all-pneumatic robot hand that uses Zipper-style cable carriers in its finger joints won the "Special Design" award in the igus® vector® 2012 competition, which honored those implementing polymer cable carriers in ...
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When Buddeez/American Plastics Group (APG) opened its doors, it was hard for the staff to imagine that less than 20 years later they would begin to outgrow their warehouses. However, the space crunch quickly turned around when APG found a ...
Tags: warehouses, Container System, assembly components, wooden pallets
Reflecting an improvement in demand for its products,Ply Gem Windows has announced plans to add of 200 jobs and make a significant capital investment at its Rocky Mount,Va.-manufacturing facility by the end of 2014., "The investment in ...
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Many manufacturing facilities have opted to follow the path toward a 5S workplace organizational and housekeeping methodology as part of continuous improvement or lean manufacturing processes. 5S is a system to reduce waste and optimize ...
Nestle USA has appointed Hannah Coan vice president of corporate and brand affairs. Coan will replace Laurie MacDonald who is retiring. Nestle communications chief Scott Remy said she brings a "wealth of experience" to the post and will ...
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Sharp is expected to sign an agreement by the end of November with Qualcomm US based Intel and Qualcomm considering joint investment of about JPY30bn ($369m) in the struggling Japanese electronics firm Sharp. Sharp is expected to sign ...
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HIGH POINT Ron Hahn will launch a case goods importer called DesignWorks at this month's High Point Market that joins the industry veteran with the former designers of Sitcom Furniture. Hahn is the former CEO and president of Universal ...
Speech by the Chairman of the Autonomous Region Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), situated in the northern border area of China, possesses unique regional advantage and consummate infrastructure. With abundant resources it enjoys ...
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The economic realities of the past few years have forced most companies to make cuts,frequently in personnel headcount,to accommodate the downturn in business as they fought hard to survive.Indeed,many facilitiesa-including ...
It's rather unprecedented for a car company to launch a mid-cycle freshening after merely 18 months on the market. But that's exactly what Honda did after our criticism of the 2012 Civic. Shortly after Honda launched the 2012 Civic, we ...
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