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...
Giving Silicon A Run For Its Conductivity
For decades now, silicon has been a trusted material in electronics manufacturing due in large part to its use in the creation of semiconductors. Silicon is used among myriad types of electronics...
Eimo Technologies
Plastics fabrication company Eimo Technologies serves its North American customers from its base in Vicksburg, Michigan. The business began operations in 1969, led by three entrepreneurs who...
Alliance Automation
American robotics systems manufacturer Alliance Automation offers automation solutions to a multitude of sectors. The company began operations in August 2008 when President and CEO Doug Wenninger,...
How Human-Robot Collaboration is Shaping the Workplace
Why is automation, the process of introducing robotics into industry and making processes more machine-driven, so often spoken of in anxious tones? It’s clear that many, both insiders and onlookers,...
Barnum Mechanical
Barnum Mechanical Inc., a mechanical contractor and supplier specializing in sanitary process systems and piping, was founded by welder Tom Barnum in 1980. Barnum, having made his living in sanitary...
Russells Technical Products
Michigan-based Russells Technical Products manufactures test chambers and systems. The company’s roots reach back as far as the 1940s and Ken Russell, the then-operator of Ken Russells...
Elcon Precision
Elcon Precision LLC manufactures precision components and assemblies for multiple industries. Based out of San Jose, California, Elcon primarily serves market sectors like aerospace, medical,...
Combining Today’s Manufacturing with the Technology of Tomorrow
The practice of lean manufacturing is one that has been in place across the world for over a century and has had a positive track-record across companies and industries reliant on manufacturing...
The Workspace Influence of AUVs
Autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are a type of robotic machine that travels under bodies of water or ice for various purposes with no direct input from a human operator. The vehicles are...
Elcon Precision
Elcon Precision, LLC is a California-based photochemical etching and precision assembly provider, formed in San Jose by chemist Anthony Barraco in 1967. Barraco wanted to use chemical milling to...
Cogent Power
The company that would become Cogent Power started out of a garage around 1973 and, in the ensuing five decades, has become a trusted Canadian supplier to the electrical energy industry. Cogent...