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...
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AOTCO Metal Finishing
Rocket Men Will Understand – Lightweight Metals Mean Larger Payloads
The electroplating of beryllium and of magnesium, ultra-lightweight metals used in aerospace components, is a super-specialized process perfected by AOTCO – the Always On Time Company. That's not...
Elcon Precision
Exploring Opportunities
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,...
Space Tech Expo USA 2021
The Meeting Place for Space Technology
From asteroid mining to NASA’s self-driving Perseverance Rover exploring the possibility of ancient life on Mars, interest in space exploration and discovery is at an all-time high, with Space Tech...
Packaging & Labeling
The Business of Branding
Wrapping up old-fashioned packaging ideas may be more difficult for some industries than others. Difficulties aside, however, the reality is that, as climate change begins to hit home around the...
Recycling Realities in a Throwaway Society
Why They Call It The Blues
Reduce, reuse, recycle: We’ve all heard the slogan, and most of us try our best to adhere to the principles of buying less, adopting green initiatives when possible and carefully loading up the...
East Coast Metal Systems
Seeing the Potential in All Projects
Metal wall panels are visually appealing, durable, quickly installed compared to materials like brick, require little maintenance, and withstand even the harshest weather. For these reasons, and...
CLAAS of America
Farming For the Future: New Developments, Facilities and Labor Practices
In an era marked by changing climates and a rising global population, the world’s food producers need new tools to raise efficiency and output. From its U.S. headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, CLAAS...
Bay Plastics Machinery
Simply Better Quality
From years of commitment to the industry to outstanding customer service and dedicated, experienced employees, there are many reasons Bay Plastics Machinery (BPM) stands apart from the competition....
ASI, Division of Thermal Technologies, Inc.
Custom Drying Solutions for Better Production Lines, Products, and Profits
While many companies claim to make their customers’ needs a top priority, Green Bay, Wisconsin-based ASI has more than succeeded in this endeavor as it designs and builds custom-drying solutions in...
Parkway Products
Saving Lives and Molding Futures, One Partnership at a Time
Since opening its doors in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946, Parkway Products, LLC has come a long way in building powerful client partnerships through its custom plastics, metal components and proprietary...
Columbia Plastics
Celebrating 75 Years of Innovation and Employee Relations
Last year marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Columbia Plastics, a family-owned, custom injection moulding company based in Surrey, British Columbia. Unfortunately, the advent of COVID-19 meant...
Banner Metals Group
A Century of Service, a Day at a Time
For 100 years, Banner Metals Group has been a prominent player in American manufacturing. Founded in 1921, the company remains true to its core values of quality, honesty, and reliability – and also...
Industrial Magnetics, Inc.
Expanding its Staff, Facilities and Portfolio
Industrial Magnetics, Inc. (IMI) designs and manufactures both standard and customized magnetic workholding, material handling and separation devices. Most of these products are made in the United...
Possehl Erzkontor North America
From Newcomer to Outstanding Trading Partner in Five Years: A Success Story
Possehl Erzkontor is well-known in the world of raw material trading – though long under-represented in North America. But now, more than a century of expertise and enormous capability is...
KSPT
Marking a Major Milestone with New Products and a Spirit of Determination
KSPT SGS Precision Tools (KSPT) of Ohio is marking its sixtieth anniversary with new products and a spirit of optimism. “Since April of last year, we have expanded our product offering by...
DCM Tech
Finding the Perfect Precision Grinding Machine Needn’t Be a Grind
To navigate the precise and demanding field of precision grinding, an experienced touch is often required. As a result of the need for manufacturers to meet tight specifications, it can be difficult...
Ceramics Expo 2021
A Clean, Efficient and Electrified Future
The theme of Conference at Ceramics Expo 2021, ‘Advanced Ceramics: Enabling a Clean, Efficient and Electrified Future,’ was chosen to reflect important issues, says conference producer Nadia...
Mighty Expedite
Delivering the Freight Industry to a New Place
Mighty Expedite is an aptly named freight brokerage that's relatively small but revolutionizing the trucking industry with its newest innovation. FreightNav is an app that does a remarkable job of...
Proto-1 Manufacturing
Where Better Manufacturing Processes are Always in the Pipeline
After more than two decades developing and manufacturing the most innovative industrial tube and pipe machinery, Proto-1 Manufacturing is set to go even higher through its great service, quality,...
Combining Today’s Manufacturing with the Technology of Tomorrow
Lean Manufacturing meets Industry 4.0
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...
Viessmann Manufacturing Company
Turning Up the Heat
Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, with a second facility in Langley, British Columbia, Viessmann Manufacturing Company, Inc. has a new range of next-generation boilers that push the boundaries of...
Johnston Boiler Company
After 157 Years, These Fire-tube Boilers Continue to Steam Ahead
Since 1864, the Johnston Boiler Company of Ferrysburg, Michigan has been laser-focused on custom-manufacturing the most efficient fire-tube boilers in the market. So confident is the company in its...
Expand Machinery, LLC
A Family Business Revitalizing itself in the Machining Market
Headquartered in Chatsworth, California, Expand Machinery, LLC provides high-quality, efficient manufacturing services for industries from aerospace and medical to automotive and more. Originally...
Argent International and Argent Tape & Label
The Best of Both Worlds
As the American economy looks forward to a post-COVID future, it is tempting for businesses to return to their pre-pandemic operations. But companies across all sectors are now faced with an...
WARDJet
Cutting-Edge Technology: Harnessing the Power of Water
“Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water. Yet, to attack the hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it. Nothing can take its place.” — Lao Tzu The famous sixth-century BC philosopher, Lao...
ACMOS
A Century of Industry Leadership—and Still Growing
Armed with a broad portfolio of mold release agents and cleaners for polyurethanes, composites and other plastics, ACMOS is an international technology leader. The Bremen, Germany-based company...
Foam Expo North America and the Adhesives & Bonding Expo
Bringing Innovative Solutions Back to an in-Person Event Format
The Foam Expo North America and the Adhesives & Bonding Expo are back! Representatives from the industrial foam, adhesives, and bonding sectors are gearing up for a dynamic exposition running July...
Manufacturing for Pod and Hyperloop Technology
In the Loop
When the news of Virgin Hyperloop’s (formerly Hyperloop One) construction of a $500 million certification center and test track in West Virginia hit the news in October last year, the global...
Dustbane
Bringing New Meaning to Cleaning
The pandemic has taught us much: domestic manufacturing is critical; cleanliness is vital against infection; and we must care for each other and our environment. These are the things Dustbane,...
The Workspace Influence of AUVs
Innovation in the Depths
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...
ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada
Transforming Tomorrow
Traditional steel production is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions the world over. ArcelorMittal is on a mission to transform this trend. With its eye firmly set on the Paris...
Pueblo Mechanical & Controls
Strong Growth, Strong Culture
Pueblo delivers full spectrum HVAC, Plumbing and Controls service and installation for education, government, industrial, healthcare and commercial customers. As a leading provider in the state of...
Dual Temp Company
Where Success Thrives
Dual Temp is no average mechanical contractor. For fifty-plus years, the company has put every effort into evolving, transforming from a simple HVAC company into a full-service provider of air...
DAP America
Defending Public Health with Seaming Technologies
DAP stands for more than Dürkopp Adler Pfaff. The acronym also reminds one of the Dutch word 'dapper' which far transcends its English variant’s sense of elegance and neatness to express boldness,...
HAHN Automation, Inc.
Have Automation Solutions, Will Travel
For decades, Germany’s reputation as a world leader in engineering and technology has remained unshakable. The HAHN Group from Rheinböllen, Germany, has taken innovative industrial automation and...
Smart Tools for Streamlined Manufacturing
From Cloud Manufacturing to Augmented Reality
The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, has brought with it gifts of previously unimaginable ingenuity in the form of a phenomenal selection of new smart tools available to manufacturers....
Xcentric Mold and Engineering
Celebrating 25 Years of Molding Excellence
It is not often that one comes across customers thanking engineering and prototyping providers for aggressive turnaround times, but Xcentric Mold and Engineering excels at providing more service and...
Cogent Power
New Owner, New Horizons, Same Commitment
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...
GROB Systems Inc.
Electrifying Success in Midst of COVID
GROB has been transitioning to new markets, introducing new products, and maintaining its usual high standards since Manufacturing in Focus last profiled the firm in December 2019. COVID has changed...