Metal Manufacturing for Construction
It is nearly impossible to imagine a world where metal fabrication is not a foundational part of both the construction and manufacturing industries. Transparency Market Research reports that the...
From Hype to Industrialization and Localization
Additive manufacturing (AM)—more commonly known as 3D printing—is a rapidly growing technology serving both consumer and professional sectors. For the first time, end users can design and...
Great Western Inorganics
GWI is more than a chemical manufacturer—it’s a vertically integrated solutions partner powering industries that shape our world. From semiconductors and optics to aerospace, green technology,...
Vectis Automation
Vectis Automation was formed in 2019 in Colorado by a group of colleagues with decades of experience in the robotic welding industry. This founding group included today’s Vice President of Business...
The EV Market’s Cost and Culture Challenges
The electric car is no longer a pipe dream. Automotive companies worldwide are offering electric options, and vehicle charging stations are becoming a more common sight at local gas...
How Trade Has Tested Canada–U.S. Relations
Although we’d like to think the relationship between Canada and the United States is harmonious (sorry about the burning down the White House in 1814, but that was technically the British), it...
Framing Tech
In 2002, the founders of what would become Framing Technology Inc. (Framing Tech), Jim Hartke and Chris Hill, decided to leave their positions in a multi-line distributor sales organization and...
Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center
The goal of the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC) is to offer Michigan manufacturers comprehensive consulting and training services to develop more effective business leaders, drive...
Elliott Matsuura Canada
Elliott Matsuura Canada President Vince D’Alessio says that, after 75 years in business, the company has changed. It began as a small division of a machine tool manufacturer in England called The B....
Williams Fire & Hazard Control
The surname in Williams Fire & Hazard Control refers to Les & Dwight Williams, who launched the business in 1980 as a response company for the oil and gas industry. Beforehand, it had...
WB Components
The Hutterite religious community traces its roots in North America all the way back to the 1500s. Much like the Amish and Mennonite communities of the region, the Hutterites have established...
Lean Manufacturing Products
Although Lean Manufacturing Products LLC (LEAN) may be a younger company at less than a decade old, it has already made great strides in the manufacturing industry. The company was founded as a...
Accord Manufacturing
Married couple John and Ellen Kuber launched their metal stamping and fabrication business, Accord Manufacturing, on April 1, 1989. Leading up to its inception, John himself was a Journeyman...
The Newest Innovations in the Packaging Industry
The packaging industry is currently brimming with interesting and novel ideas that are either beginning to take shape or evolving into more complex final products. As individual customers and...
Cranemasters
American railroad contractor Cranemasters officially began operations on October 10, 1986. It originated as the culmination of an idea of Loren Isringhausen’s, an idea that came to fruition with...
LIVIO Building Systems
LIVIO Building Systems is making big moves and bringing new ways of thinking into the construction industry—but the person behind its development initially made his name outside of construction....
Modern Shipbuilding
As varied business sectors worldwide deal with myriad issues following the COVID-19 pandemic that continue to be felt today, one area that continues to see both growth and innovation is that of the...
The C.A. Lawton Company
The C.A. Lawton Co. is a business with a deep and rich history, as it was started in 1879 by its namesake, Charles Lawton and his uncle, E.W. Arndt. Originally known as The Novelty Manufacturing...
Bailey International
Mobile hydraulic component provider Bailey International LLC has been established in its field for nearly 50 years. The business was founded by Adrian and Mary Bailey in Owosso, Michigan in 1976...
Samuel Automation
Custom automation service provider Systematix, now Samuel Automation, has recently become an integral part of a much larger corporate ecosystem, and now boasts more power and resources than it ever...
Champ Industries
In just a few years, Champ Industries has seen a great deal of change come its way thanks to changes within and outside its walls. It currently has locations in Canada and the U.S., in Winnipeg,...
The A-Team
Headquartered in California, Barnum Mechanical Inc. provides sanitary process and utility piping design-build services to a diverse clientele across the U.S. Now well into its fifth decade of...
The Bucket Shop
Don’t let the name fool you; The Bucket Shop (TBS) does not deal in mop buckets. The company’s name has seen it through its humble beginnings in the early 1990s, operating out of a garage as a...
Zierick Manufacturing Corporation
Zierick Manufacturing Corporation (ZMC) is a third-generation, family-owned manufacturing company with over a century of expertise in electronics and semiconductors. Zierick began life as a small...
Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center
The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC) was founded around 32 years ago with the inception of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). At that time and into the mid-2000s, there...
Chick Machine Company
Chick Machine Company is celebrating its 52nd anniversary as one of Pennsylvania’s most well-known and reliable machine shops. The company’s story began in August 1971, with its namesake Jim Chick...
Microrobots and Nanobots
Robotics is an ever-growing field across a bevy of disciplines, including within manufacturing and its partner industries. More and more companies are beginning to see the benefits of adopting...
Spacecraft Manufacturing
As technology continues to improve and develop rapidly across all business sectors and global regions, there is still a great deal of interest in developing the technology that will usher humanity...
The A-Team
Headquartered in California, Barnum Mechanical Inc. provides sanitary process and utility piping design-build services to a diverse clientele across the U.S. Now well into its fifth decade of...
CCRM and OmniaBio Inc.
The Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) has an international reach. Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, CCRM aims to take advantage of Canada’s strengths in...
The Making of Mass Transit
The manufacturing industry is no stranger to change, as materials, technologies, safety requirements, and customer demands evolve over time. Lately, the automotive sector in particular has been...
ALLIEDFLEX Technologies
Florida-based ALLIEDFLEX Technologies is an American packaging machinery supplier and advocate for flexible packaging. President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Calamusa remembers it as little...
Modern Packaging
Current trends seem to indicate that big shifts are coming to the packaging industry in the next decade. Research published by data company Smithers shows that, in the next five years, the global...
Vector Controls and Automation Group
Vector Controls and Automation Group (Vector CAG) is an established representative, distributor, service and solution partner for several manufacturers. The company was born on March 6, 2013 from a...
The Canadian Tooling & Machining Association (CTMA)
The Canadian Tooling & Machining Association (CTMA) is dedicated to supporting the interests and promotion of the trades and industries of its namesake affiliations. It began operations in 1963...
Elliott Matsuura Canada
Elliott Matsuura Canada Inc., a branch of the global machine tool supplier Matsuura Machinery Corporation, is based in Oakville, Ontario. Its rich history began in 1905 with founder Hugo Frye, a...
Fasteners Direct
Fasteners Direct of Webster, New York, carries everything relating to industrial and construction fasteners. The company was founded by Herb Parr in the 1990s and has always embraced being a family...
Vector Controls and Automation Group
Vector Controls and Automation Group (Vector CAG) is an established representative, distributor, service and solution partner for several manufacturers. The company was born on March 6, 2013 from a...
Fuller Industrial Corporation
Fuller Industrial Corporation is a Canadian company serving the mining industry through the production and fabrication of pipe spool, rubber lining, and protective coating for tanks and piping...
TraceParts
Digital content provider TraceParts specializes in providing three-dimensional (3D) product data for the manufacturing industry. The brand was founded in the late 1990s in Europe—now with an...
Air Logic
Molded components manufacturer Air Logic, based out of Wisconsin, is perhaps best known in its industry for its orifice restrictors, the flow control devices that work especially well in...
Pierce-Roberts Rubber Co.
Pierce-Roberts Rubber Company of New Jersey manufactures custom-molded rubber products for companies nationwide. The company was started by R.J. Pierce, who purchased a warehouse in 1911 in Trenton,...
Inventus Power
Inventus Power of Woodridge, Illinois specializes in designing and manufacturing advanced battery and power solutions, from lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery packs to smart charging systems, power...
RONCO
Personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturer and solutions provider RONCO of Concord, Ontario proudly serves Canadian customers nationwide and other customers across the globe, including the...
MRI Steel Framing
American building product manufacturer MRI Steel Framing was founded in 2004 by its two owners, Frank Eberwein and Bill Wilson. The two had been involved extensively in the steel slitting industry...
Hydra Dyne Technology
Hydraulic equipment supplier and machining facility Hydra Dyne Technology is based in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1992 by its three original partners, the company began by repairing...
Ecological Alternatives of the Future
As countless global initiatives attempt to combat the environmental impacts of waste and introduce more eco-friendly ways of life, sustainable manufacturing is an emerging practice that is quickly...
Virtek Vision
Virtek Vision International is a Canadian manufacturer with international reach. Operating out of Ontario, this company primarily provides solutions to a diverse clientele based around the...
Swiss Automation
Illinois-based machining manufacturer Swiss Automation has over half a century of experience in precision machining for a variety of industries including medical, defense, aerospace, and more....
Feedall Automation
American industrial equipment manufacturer, Feedall Automation of Willoughby, Ohio, focuses specifically on automated part feeding and loading systems, i.e. conveyors, feeders, and other types of...