Three-dimensional (3D) printing is changing the world of manufacturing at a rapid pace, so when COVID-19 crashed global supply chains, INTAMSYS Technology, Inc. set out to help by harnessing the...
2022
Printron
The Art and Technology of Packaging
Since 1963, Neenah, Wisconsin-based Printron has built a reputation as one of America’s best full-service integrated artwork and prepress agencies, delivering graphic services that are second to...
Technical Metals Inc.
Where Precision Meets Production
Technical Metals Inc. (TMI), a privately owned company based in Fairbury, Illinois, is a metal fabrication company which has been providing quality manufacturing solutions since 1970. Before coming...
Samco Machinery
People Power: Communication, Innovation, Teamwork
What began as a one-man operation in 1972 has since flourished into a global enterprise with manufacturing locations in both Canada and India, an admirable feat that Samco Machinery Ltd. proudly...
A Skilled Trades Revolution
Greener, Cleaner Robots
Industrial robots have had their place in the manufacturing world for decades. These first-generation industrial robots have traditionally performed work that is deemed dull, dirty, or dangerous....
Dalsin Industries, Inc.
Making Technology Hum
Precision metal fabricator Dalsin Industries, Inc. knows its field well after nearly eighty years in the metal industry. Primarily serving original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across North...
CO-AX Valves, Inc.
Showing Grace Under Extreme Pressure
CO-AX Valves, Inc. (CVI) has come through the COVID crisis in a strong position, with new markets, new products, and new ways of doing business. The Bristol, Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of German...
Pyramex Safety Products
Protecting the World with Quality PPE
Personal protective equipment (PPE) not only protects people from injury; it can also help shape futures because, in many cases, quality PPE can be the difference between a loved one returning home...
All Metals Fabricating
Family Matters
In business for almost 70 years, All Metals Fabricating continues to play a key role in American manufacturing. Combining time-tested skills with investments in high-tech equipment, All Metals is...
Freeport Welding
Towering Achievements Come from Tiny Tolerances
First, the nitty gritty. With more than 60 years of experience, Freeport Welding offers outstanding, innovative fabrication and maintenance services to marine, refining, and petrochemical...
MNSTAR Group
The Stars of Custom Electric Wire Harnesses
If you were there in the 80s, just the mention of Eddy Grant’s catchy Electric Avenue should have you tapping a foot. But these ‘electric avenues’ are little-known, and much more important – they’re...
STAR, Inc.
Passionate About Sealcoatings
Sealcoating on asphalt or concrete surfaces isn’t decorative; it’s highly functional and protects considerable investment. Sealcoating safeguards home driveways, gas stations, parking lots, even...
Atlas Machining & Welding Inc.
Putting Customers First for over Forty Years
Atlas Machining & Welding Inc. got its start in 1981 after the cement company that Harold Keeney worked for shut down. Rather than succumbing to discouragement, the experienced machinist saw the...
Embracing Industry 4.0 Post-Pandemic
The Show Must Go On
The entire world is weary of hearing the word, but upon its arrival in 2020, Covid wreaked major havoc on our health, society, travel, business and pretty much every aspect of manufacturing across...
Safer Workplaces for Greater Productivity
Workplace Health and Safety
It’s everyone’s expectation – and their right – that throughout their day their workplace is free from hazards and is a healthy place to spend their working hours. But is this just a moral duty to...
The International Safety Equipment Association
Keeping Employees From Harm: The International Safety Equipment Association Advocates for a Safer Workplace
The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) represents companies that make the workplace safer. Due to COVID, the association’s mission has taken on a new urgency. When the pandemic began,...
NASCO Industries, Inc.
Proudly American Safety Apparel
Serving international names as big as Shell in countries as far as Singapore, NASCO Industries, Inc. keeps those who work in the utility, oil, and gas industries comfortable in hard-wearing,...
RONCO
Protecting the Head, Hand, and Body of Workers
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...
Superior Fabrication Company
Pulling Back the Curtain – Resourceful, Transparent Fabrication With a Smile
Much like Atlas carrying the ancient Greek world on his celestial shoulders, material handling machinery tends to be one of the unsung heroes moving and carrying the supplies that sustain the world...
Des-Case Corporation
The Original Provider of the Desiccant Breather
The Des-Case Corporation is a world leader in designing innovative solutions for protecting lubricants from contamination. The lifespan of any piece of mechanical equipment is directly related to...
Automation Plastics Corporation
Breaking the Mold for 25 Years
The leading manufacturer of thick wall polyethylene components for natural gas distribution systems, Automation Plastics Corporation specializes in the custom molding of thermoplastic injection...
Handling Systems & Conveyors
Moving Parts
Handling Systems & Conveyors, Inc. (HSC) of Little Rock, Arkansas, specializes in large material handling equipment used to transport parts and structures in industrial settings. More specifically,...
ProPart Modular
Durable, Fast and Flexible: A Modular Wall System That Embraces Change
Adapt, evolve, and innovate. The past three years have taught us that markets can change in the blink of an eye… ProPart Modular’s answer to the challenge of keeping quality construction affordable...
Russell
This Contractor with a Difference Makes Projects Happen
One of the most promising signs of a quality contractor is repeat business – and commercial contractor and developer Russell’s return customer metrics sit at well over sixty percent every year. With...
The Evolution of PPE
The Making of Protection
From the first blacksmith’s apron to the most advanced spacesuit, personal protective equipment (PPE) has been a key component of work around the world. As important as having the right tool for a...
Focus Media Group Celebrates 10 Years
The Story Behind the Stories
We are Focus Media Group, or FMG. For the past ten years, we’ve been honoured to bring you the stories of businesses across all sectors, and we can assure you that we’ve had fun doing it! To...
Sustainability Makes Sense
For the Greater Good, and the Bottom Line
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says manufacturing consumes 20 percent of the country’s annual energy output, about the energy in 3.6 billion barrels of crude oil. That’s the kind of big...
Albany Packaging
Sustainability Backed by 75 Years of Experience
The packaging of a food product can be just as effective a selling tool as its taste. But in today’s world, packaging must also be efficient and cost-effective, and should boast a lower...
Packaging Systems & Small Quantity Boxes
Boxing Match – A Merger That Makes Sense
Great customer service, loyal customers, awesome products and services, sustainability, and automation are hallmarks of Packaging Systems (Indiana based) and Small Quantity Boxes (Wisconsin based)....
Leigh Fibers
Custom Fiber Blends in a Greener World
At a time when environmental stewardship is becoming increasingly urgent, it is refreshing to find companies doing tremendous work in mitigating our impact on the planet. Leigh Fibers is a...
WeldFit
Moderating Methane: Sustainability Through Emissions Reduction
Increasing pipeline productivity while fulfilling environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) goals, Houston-based WeldFit brings 50 years of experience to safe and efficient hot tapping,...
IMPACT Converting & Systems Solutions
Uniting Six Tool and Die Manufacturers Under One Brand
Historically a tool and die manufacturer for the converting industry, IMPACT makes a collection of tools and systems that complete the cutting, creasing, or folding processes of production. IMPACT...
Technical Metals Inc.
Where Precision Meets Production
Technical Metals Inc. (TMI), a privately owned company based in Fairbury, Illinois, is a metal fabrication company which has been providing quality manufacturing solutions since 1970. Before coming...
Conductix-Wampfler
Infrastructure for the Automation Era
With 30 sales offices and 13 production facilities worldwide, Conductix-Wampfler boasts a truly global network with a reach that spans the industrialized world. The company’s rich history,...
HIPOWER SYSTEMS
Power to the People: Building QUALITY Generators
HIPOWER SYSTEMS harnesses the power of its international parent companies while remaining small enough to give customers a level of personal service and American-made quality that are hard to come...
G.W. Becker, Inc.
Creating the Cranes that Clients have Always Wanted
Don’t think “cranes,” think “overhead lifting solutions.” That small difference in approach, says G.W. Becker, Inc., is what has made the company into one of North America’s most recognized and...
Ecological Alternatives of the Future
Sustainable Manufacturing & Materials
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...
Bridging the Gender Gap in Manufacturing
The XX Factor
It’s a potentially lucrative career path with ample room to learn and advance, but the manufacturing industry has consistently failed to attract women to its burgeoning ranks: Although they make up...
How Joining the Manufacturing Sector Aided in the War Effort
Wartime Women
“Work should be, for all of us, a word as honourable and appealing as patriotism.” – Dwight Eisenhower Prior to the First World War, male factory workers dominated as factories were not considered a...
Swiss Automation
At the Forefront for Over 50 Years
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....
Anaheim Precision Manufacturing
Meeting the Needs of World-Class Clients
Proudly serving clients for the past 35 years, Anaheim Precision Manufacturing (APM) is active in aerospace, defense, technology, medical, communications, commercial, retail and other demanding...
Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing
Second Generation Leader Helps Guide Family Machine Shop to New Levels
In a marketplace that has been filled with uncertainty, global upheaval, supply chain issues, inflation, acts of nature and more, strong leadership is needed more than ever. And while that’s true...
Virtek Vision
Leading the Way in Laser Manufacturing Solutions
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...
Vidir Solutions
Embracing Change: Vidir Solutions Brings More Women, Rural Workers to Manufacturing
As more and more North American manufacturing begins to return from outsourced regions, labour must be drawn from non-traditional sources to fill the demand. Women comprise less than thirty percent...
Brannon Steel
All Hands on Deck: Committed to Customers, Community, and Collaboration
As a company that has experienced steady, impressive growth since 1968, Brannon Steel has not only enjoyed successful expansion, but has managed to maintain its initial goals and focus of caring for...
ProAll
ProAll’s New Spider 2.0 Trucks Pour Concrete and Deliver Business
ProAll International Manufacturing Inc.’s ongoing commitment to pouring concrete in a simpler and more environmentally friendly method has been a goal for more than 50 years, as the company strives...
Netchem Inc.
Easing Supply Chain Stress
As a woman-owned company, specialty chemical distributor Netchem Inc. knows how to raise the bar when it comes to cultivating excellence by embracing diversity. The company has built a reputation...
RD Industries, Inc.
Genius in a Bottle: Solving Problems Sustainably
Operating successfully for more than four decades, as RD Industries has, is quite an achievement for any company – but it still takes a bit of genius to become the world's leader in bottle inserts...
Addressing Shortages Through Diversity and Technology
Where Are The Workers?
For decades, manufacturing has been surrounded shrouded by myths and misinformation, and the time to change those distorted perceptions is now. Burdened by an outdated Dickensian perception of being...
Industrial Plant Services
Overcoming Automation Industry Hurdles
The automation industry is at a crossroads. Facing challenges from seasoned workers retiring and too few apprentices coming up, to tight budgets and ever-changing technology, the sector is...