Technology and Talent Drive 2026 Recovery
Over the last couple of years, manufacturing growth in North America has been less than stellar, with slow growth and even some contractions in 2024 and mixed results in 2025 as the market...
Eddyfi Technologies
The safety processes that keep our world turning most often go unnoticed—until there’s a glitch in a system. Sometimes, these glitches end in high-stakes losses; other times, they end in tragedy. At...
RAFI North America
As an independent business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Xymox Technologies custom designed and manufactured a variety of innovative products for the digital display and touch screen sectors. Since...
Technology Predictions Shaping Manufacturing’s Next Five Years
The next five years promise more than incremental upgrades in the world of manufacturing. Technologies that once sounded like science fiction, from brain–computer interfaces to self-flying air...
Design Systems Canada Ltd.
Most people eventually come to appreciate a simple truth in life: we don’t know what we don’t know. At Design Systems Canada (DSC), this perspective has long guided the company’s approach to...
Metal Engineering & MFG.
In its long, fascinating history, Metal Engineering & MFG. has taken on projects for Hollywood, Las Vegas casinos, and major theme parks. Based in Ontario, California, this family-owned business...
Boose Aluminum Foundry
Founded in 1933 and now with its fourth generation on staff, Boose Aluminum Foundry Co., Inc. has emerged as a key provider of high-quality aluminum sand castings for numerous modern markets and...
D/F Machine Specialties®
D/F Machine Specialties® is a family-owned and operated manufacturer of welding guns, torches and consumables that has built its reputation on the transformative ability to revolutionize the sector...
Overlanders Manufacturing
Rooted in its long-standing home of British Columbia, Canada, Overlanders Manufacturing LP has built a reputation as a highly capable and adaptable force in precision sheet metal fabrication. The...
Sunnen Products Company
Sunnen Products Company, a leading manufacturer of honing equipment and associated products, passed the century mark last year. It was an extraordinary achievement for a business with very humble...
Lapeer Plating + Plastics
Major developments have been taking place at Lapeer Plating + Plastics, Inc., (LP+P) since Manufacturing in Focus last checked in with the Class A auto parts manufacturer in April 2025. The company...
Alltrista Plastics
The history of Alltrista Plastics, a company focused on precision plastics manufacturing across multiple industries, is marked by both change and longevity. The business traces its history back to...
Avon Food Company
In an industry where brands rise, merge, and disappear from store shelves as quickly as trends change, Avon Food Company stands out as a rare constant, defined not only by its product legacy, but by...
Bri-Steel Manufacturing
When faced with challenges, businesses have a choice: either go along for the ride or grab the wheel, steer through the storm, and react minute-by-minute to changing conditions. For much of 2025,...
Nitrofreeze Cryogenic Solutions
Precise and versatile cryogenic processes, including cryogenic deflashing, deburring, dry ice blasting, and part-enhancing processes, are highly effective treatments for improving product quality....
Viessmann Manufacturing
Meeting with the Viessmann team is a little like attending an engineering magic show—always exciting, always fresh, and always revealing. This year was no different. Packed with four new products...
Axiom Material Handling Solutions
Lucky leaders get to have conversations about how great their team is—lucky leaders, that is, of thriving organizations who work exceptionally hard and succeed in building a culture of excellence....
alkus®
When it comes to formwork, plywood has long been the standard. But in 2000, alkus® raised the bar with its polypropylene solutions that outlast and outperform the competition in terms of job...
An Environmental Imperative
Packaging has long been a silent partner in the consumer experience, safeguarding products and facilitating their journey from manufacturers to consumers. But in recent years, it has become...
A Wonderland of Possibility
Mushrooms, in all their forms, have been an integral part of the human experience for millennia. In fact, scientists tell us that our world would not be possible without their complex systems. And,...
Tornado Infrastructure Equipment
The Tornado Infrastructure Equipment brand began operations in 1984 and has evolved considerably over time. Having started as a specialized hydrovac truck company, the company’s suite of core...
DY Concrete Pumps
Based in Alvarado, Texas, DY Concrete Pumps Inc. is a family-owned company that sells concrete pumps, parts, and ancillary equipment. Since we spoke last year, the team has new products, an...
SVTronics, Inc.
Business in America today is akin to a game of speed chess, where the matches are over in minutes. Success requires players to make lightning-fast calculations. But, instead of kings, queens, rooks,...
Wind River Built
Wind River Built is a fast-rising, specialty construction company that custom-manufactures family homes, guest houses, cabins, and other structures. The Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company is eager...
JEBCO
Where would we be without welding? What would get built? What tools would we have? How many industries would not even be around without it? Consider the impacts of welding on mining alone. “A lot of...
Benson Systems
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, security, and life safety, very few companies have managed to balance tradition with innovation for as long as Benson Systems has. As the Arizona-based,...
Samco Machinery
Since 1972, Samco Machinery has been a leading manufacturer of roll forming equipment serving the automotive, building and construction, racking and shelving, transportation, energy, and consumer...
Building a Skilled Workforce and Driving Innovation Forward
Semiconductors are the fundamental building blocks of high-tech systems and a burgeoning sector of the Canadian economy. Industry analysts are bullish about growth potential in this sector, which is...
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...
VEXOS
As a powerful Tier III, award-winning global leader in electronics manufacturing services (EMS), specializing in end-to-end supply chain management solutions, VEXOS has a significant responsibility...
ProtoTier-1
Some companies are built from a business plan, while others are born from grit, opportunity, and a little bit of daring. For ProtoTier-1 Inc., a second-generation family-owned manufacturing company...
Think-PLC
A fortuitous encounter at an industry event last year landed Think-PLC a big assignment and a chance to demonstrate and prove its recently expanded capabilities… Based in Lexington, North Carolina,...
ChemArt
For ChemArt, 2026 represents a major milestone. The company will commemorate half of a century in business as America celebrates 250 years of independence on July 4th. For the Rhode Island-based...
Countryside Cabinets
Countryside Cabinets is a semi-custom cabinet manufacturer based in De Pere, Wisconsin that has spent the last 50 years becoming a steadfast presence in the building community across the Midwest....
Coherix
Coherix, Inc. has expanded its workforce and product line and embraced Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a big way since Manufacturing in Focus last profiled the firm in January 2023. However, the Ann...
METALCON 2025
Featuring inspiring keynote speakers, in-depth workshops, over 35 education sessions and more than 250 exhibitors and products, this year’s METALCON promises to be bigger and better than ever! Set...
Hangcha Forklift Canada
A worldwide leader in the forklift industry, Hangcha Forklift Canada was among the first to introduce state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery technology to the marketplace. A decade later, the company...
SRC Technologies Group
When you think about companies leading the way in remanufacturing, reverse logistics, and sustainable technology, few stories are as compelling as that of SRC Technologies Group. Formerly known as...
WeldCor Supplies Inc.
CEO Leroy Billesberger has many words of praise for his company, WeldCor Supplies Inc., a standalone, customer-direct provider of general supplies, welding equipment, and materials. Committed to...
Cirtronics Corporation
For product companies that require a true manufacturing partner, not just a vendor, Cirtronics Corporation is uniquely positioned to deliver. With a strategic focus on complex builds—including PCBA,...
Coxreels
It is a remarkable achievement for any company to reach a century in business, let alone remain family-owned and operated the entire time. Soon to turn 103 years old, Tempe, Arizona-headquartered...
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...
Preparing the Workforce for the Technologies of Tomorrow
As technology advances and Industry 4.0 becomes the norm, are manufacturers and workers ready to meet the needs of the future? As time and technology advance, manufacturing’s reputation for the...
DC Power
As the old saying goes, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” Realizing there had to be a better, smarter, and safer way to serve America’s power industry and its...
Bourn & Koch
Offering precise automated machine tooling systems to the global manufacturing community—and in particular, engineering custom solutions for some of the most difficult manufacturing...
HERMLE USA
HERMLE USA is known by its customers for fabricating the most precise machining centers in the world. Committed to providing complete machining solutions, the company is a subsidiary of...
Clean Air Industries
Clearing the air in manufacturing facilities can often be easier said than done. This is why those in several industries and related educational organizations value the importance of creating safer...
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,...
Lanco Integrated
As technology advances at an ever-accelerating pace, particularly in the realms of artificial intelligence and smart innovations, manufacturers face the added challenge of keeping up with these...
Merging Timeless Principles with Tomorrow’s Technologies
In an era where efficiency reigns supreme and waste is the ultimate adversary, the principles of Lean manufacturing remain as relevant today as they were when Toyota revolutionized the production...