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LMT Onsrud LP hires Chris Stewart

LMT Onsrud LP, Waukegan, Ill., hired Chris Stewart as the composites application specialist covering the U.S. and Canada. Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis. Originally published on CTE:…

Contributor · June 4, 2018

Teradyne Inc. acquires Mobile Industrial Robots ApS

Teradyne Inc., North Reading, Mass., and the shareholders of Mobile Industrial Robots ApS, Odense, Denmark, announced the acquisition of privately held MiR for €121 million ($148 million) net of cash acquired plus…

Contributor · June 4, 2018

Coldwater Machine Co. hires Gregg Boggs

Coldwater Machine Co., Coldwater, Ohio, a leading engineered solutions company that manufactures and integrates assembly automation and special machines for a variety of industries, appointed Gregg Boggs regional sales manager for the…

Contributor · June 4, 2018

Foba Laser Marking + Engraving appoints 2

Foba Laser Marking + Engraving, Selmsdorf, Germany, appointed an experienced sales manager in charge of customer service in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Imported from the CTE archive…

Contributor · June 1, 2018

Machining technology unveiled

As leaders of developing and deploying emerging technologies to new users, Mitsui Seiki USA Inc., Franklin Lakes, N.J., and TechSolve Inc., Cincinnati, will host a public unveiling of the Blue Arc machining…

Contributor · June 1, 2018

BLM Group USA Corp. hires 3

BLM Group USA Corp., Novi, Mich., appointed three regional sales managers to support the company's high-precision laser tube and flat sheet cutting and tube bending business in the United States and Canada.…

Contributor · June 1, 2018

Gearing up for IMTS 2018

Once again, the International Manufacturing Technology Show is right around the corner. IMTS 2018 takes place Sept. 10-15 at Chicago's McCormick Place, which is literally just down the road from where I…

Contributor · June 1, 2018

ZOLLER inaugurates new North American headquarters

ZOLLER Inc. inaugurated its new North American Headquarters on May 18, 2018, in the presense of the Zoller family, esteemed architect David Gebhardt, and Paul Krutko, president and CEO of Ann Arbor…

Contributor · May 30, 2018

Admitting my mistakes

I received an email from a reader letting me know that he disagreed with my recent article on tapping versus thread milling. In it, I stated, "There's little chance of successfully thread…

Contributor · May 29, 2018

Targeting tool materials

Seventy years ago when the Society of Carbide Engineers launched the trade magazine that eventually became Cutting Tool Engineering as its official publication, the articles primarily covered carbide cutting tools. After all,…

Contributor · May 25, 2018

Ohio Tool Works LLC hires 2

Ohio Tool Works LLC, an industry-leading manufacturer of precision honing machines, tooling, abrasives and accessories, announced that Paul Lykins joined the engineering department as the senior controls engineer. Imported from the CTE…

Contributor · May 24, 2018

Hexagon AB acquires Licom Systems GmbH

Hexagon AB, Stockholm, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, acquired sole ownership of Licom Systems GmbH, a German distributor of…

Contributor · May 24, 2018

Hexagon AB acquires ProCAM SRL

Hexagon AB, Stockholm, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, acquired ProCAM SRL, an Italian distributor of CAD/CAM solutions and complementary…

Contributor · May 24, 2018

Index Corp. names distributors

Index Corp., Noblesville, Ind., as part of a revitalized sales, marketing and service strategy, partnered with five new, highly qualified distributors and realigned sales territories. Imported from the CTE archive to seed…

Contributor · May 24, 2018

Top five risks impacting manufacturing plant floor operations

While manufacturers around the world have reached new heights in technology adoption and equipment innovation, there are still many pain points that hinder optimization, efficiency and even safety on the plant floor.…

Contributor · May 24, 2018

Mike Roberts joins Kitagawa North-Tech Inc.

Kitagawa North-Tech Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., a standard chucks, advanced chucks, custom-engineered workholding and steady rests manufacturer, announced that Mike Roberts of ITEX Workholding joined the company as regional sales manager for the…

Contributor · May 24, 2018

A tipping point for tapping

As discussed in the current issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine in the feature article "Specialization on tap," material-specific taps continue to evolve. Sources anticipate increasing specialization of the materials used for…

Contributor · May 21, 2018

CNC automation: Should we?

Myths and debates swirl around the questions of using robots to automate CNC operations. From "Should we automate?" and "Can we automate?" to "How should we automate?" Are they true or not?…

Contributor · May 21, 2018

CNC Software hosts local Girl Scout troop

On April 10, 2018, CNC Software Inc. hosted local Girl Scout troop #65023 for a tour of its corporate offices. Area Girl Scouts in 5th and 6th grades were able to see…

Contributor · May 21, 2018

Does your state tax manufacturing machinery?

State sales tax bases are both too narrow and too broad. Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis. Originally published on CTE: 2018-05-18 CTE source: https://ctemag.com/news/does-your-state-tax-manufacturing-machinery/ Legacy path: /does-your-state-tax-manufacturing-machinery

Contributor · May 18, 2018

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