Temperform
For over 50 years, Detroit-based Temperform has provided customers with high-quality heat, abrasion, and corrosion-resistant castings and machined components. Manufacturing no-bake sand mold steel and stainless steel castings weighing from just two pounds all the way to 5,500 pounds, award-winning Temperform is renowned for its high customer satisfaction, on-time delivery, and robust safety initiatives.
The RiteScreen Company
For almost 80 years, RiteScreen, headquartered in Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, has solidified its reputation as a leader in the screen solutions business. Committed to customers and suppliers, and accountable to its team, RiteScreen remains focused on continuous improvement and meeting the needs of the ever-evolving door and window market. This commitment to customers and suppliers was never more apparent than in 2014, when RiteScreen was purchased by Seven Point Equity Partners, placing a heightened emphasis on the company’s manufacturing efficiency and product innovation.
Window & Door Manufacturers Association
For almost a century, the Window & Door Manufacturers Association (WDMA) has advocated on behalf of its industry. Primarily representing window, door, and skylight manufacturers, the WDMA also has a supplier membership category for companies that produce components for windows and doors, as well as service providers, including software firms and machinery manufacturers.
A D Metro
Touch screen technology has come a very long way since A D Metro was founded in 1993, with some of that advancement thanks to innovations from this livewire company.
G.W. Becker, Inc.
Over 40 years, G.W. Becker, Inc. has grown from a local, family-owned business into one of North America’s foremost designers and manufacturers of industry-leading overhead crane solutions.
Coxreels
In 1923, the world was full of promise. World War I was over, and times were prosperous. The now 100-year-old Hollywood sign in California lit up the mountain slopes, and Vice President Calvin Coolidge became President. Russian-American inventor, Vladimir Zworykin, filed his first U.S. patent for an all-electronic “television system.”
The Right to Repair
Technology has given the world televisions, computers, monitors, printers, copiers, and smartphones, but also a new term for the growing mountains of dead electronics: e-waste. The issue of e-waste has sparked endless debates over what we can do to keep millions of discarded devices out of landfills, and this month, we look at the right to repair.
Molecular Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the art of manipulating materials on an extremely small scale to build microscopic machinery.
Viking Masek
When Leonhard Packaging Solutions (LPS) was founded by Robb Leonhard and his older brother Rick in 2002, the company started small, with Rick serving as President and Robb filling the role of Vice President. The brothers had the drive and talent for finding the right people and empowering others, a quality they brought to the newly formed business. In the next few years they brought in RC Huhn and Scott Miller to the ownership team. Both brought strong skill sets that complemented the team.
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METALCON
METALCON is the only annual tradeshow exclusively devoted to the application of metal in design and construction. This year’s event will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) in Atlanta from October 30 to November 1, 2024.
Lobster Life Systems
Located in Lodi, New Jersey, Lobster Life Systems (LLS) is the premier designer and manufacturer of custom sustainable aquatic environments in the U.S. The company’s offerings include high-quality marine salt, lobster tanks, Shellfish Spa™, and all filtration supplies. The family-owned company serves national supermarket chains, independent grocers, restaurants, and seafood wholesalers in both the U.S. and Canada.
The Modern Machine Shop
American writer, philosopher, and influential arts and crafts supporter Elbert Hubbard famously said, “One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Celebrating the Legacy and Future of Black-Owned Businesses in Manufacturing
Throughout history, Black men and women have been behind countless inventions, making our lives easier, safer, healthier, and more productive. From disposable syringes to lawn mowers, security systems, pressure cookers, fire extinguishers, electric lamps, and futuristic stair-climbing wheelchairs—courtesy of U.S. Navy veteran and one of the first Black submariners, Rufus Jack Weaver—the remarkable accomplishments of these visionaries are often overlooked.
Horsburgh & Scott
Offering more than 135 years of combined expertise developing, producing, and repairing gearboxes for heavy-duty applications worldwide, Horsburgh & Scott has effectively established design guidelines for gearboxes with capacities of up to 5000 HP and four million lb-ft of torque in a rev range from 0.5 to 3600 rpm.
Hull Forest Products
In today’s world, words like “sustainable” and “renewable” are everywhere, but what do they really mean? For Hull Forest Products, these words are put into action every day, as they have been for decades. For almost 60 years, this Connecticut-based business has proudly offered customers wood products which are locally grown, sustainably harvested, and proudly rooted in America’s history.
