ABA-PGT
ABA-PGT Inc. of Manchester, Connecticut offers tooling, molding, and a can-do spirit. While it has embraced artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and other advanced tools, the company has a...
THK America
THK America is a subsidiary of THK Company, Ltd. a brand that is recognized globally as the leading precision motion specialist. The truth is, however, that simplification does little justice to the...
Bossard Americas
As manufacturers reshore operations to North America, the entire region is automating on a historic scale. Now, more than ever, quality design and components are essential in fabrication. However,...
Black Controls Company Inc.
Evolution was always the plan. While its history is rooted in industrial controls, Black Controls was built with the clear vision to become a full-scale systems integrator. The company now delivers...
A3 and Automate 2026
For more than half a century, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has played a central role in guiding the evolution of industrial automation. What began in 1974 as the Robotic Industries...
Construction for Manufacturing
Choosing the most suitable contractor for any construction project requires research. Much like hiring a firm for smaller jobs, selecting the most appropriate builder for large-scale manufacturing...
MCR Oil Tools
Looking back on his career, Michael Robertson reflects on the challenges that led to his success in the oil and gas sector. Chief Executive Officer of Arlington, Texas-based MCR Oil Tools,...
Sustainable Alternatives for Environmental Health
In light of recent scientific discoveries highlighting the significant dangers of synthetic polymers to humans, our planet, and all living creatures, it is always refreshing to observe scientists...
Wildeck
A prominent producer of material lifts, elevated access equipment, safety guarding items, and industrial steel work platforms (mezzanines), Wildeck Inc. proudly celebrates its 50th anniversary this...
The Rise of Buy-It-For-Life
The concept of planned obsolescence—products specifically designed to have a limited lifespan—stems in part from two events that took place in the 1920s. The first event occurred just before...
The Power of Family-Owned Manufacturing
This year, April 10th marked National Siblings Day. Known as Brothers and Sisters Day in Europe, where it is typically celebrated at the end of May, Siblings Day was created over 30 years ago by...
Team Industries
When it comes to the timely delivery of high-quality shop fabricated pipe spools, tanks, and vessels, Team Industries, Inc. leads North America’s fabrication industry. With fabrication facilities in...
Spectrum Custom Packaging
Looking to stand out among custom packaging manufacturers? Spectrum Custom Packaging has found a way to craft innovative and inspired custom packaging solutions by believing that what’s on the...
Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center
The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC) continues its 30-plus-year mission to provide its home state’s manufacturers with the tools and knowhow they need to succeed in today’s...
Atlas Technologies
With thousands of die change installations globally, pressroom automation leader Atlas Technologies celebrated its 60th anniversary last year. Following several years of upgrades to its knowledge...
Symbiote
Symbiote is a manufacturer of specialized laboratory, technical, and healthcare furniture who, alongside its partners, seeks to elevate its clients’ spaces and the work that can be done within them....
PTG Electronics
In an era when global supply chains are being reshaped and advanced manufacturing technologies are rapidly evolving, few companies embody the modern manufacturing renaissance quite like PTG...
Grotnes
Over the past two years, Grotnes (pronounced ‘Grote-ness’) has launched a series of initiatives based around artificial intelligence (AI), customer service, and its product line. Headquartered in...
Rock Run Industries
For Fritz Schlabach, founder and owner of Rock Run Industries in Millersburg, Indiana, running a solid business is all in a day’s work. His formula is almost deceptively simple: by ensuring that his...
Canway Equipment
For 40 years, Canway Equipment Mfg. Inc. has quietly built a reputation as one of Canada’s most trusted manufacturers of rolling steel ladders and material handling solutions. From humble beginnings...
Elcon Precision
For over half a century, Elcon Precision LLC has served the Bay Area of California and beyond in making its services of brazing, metallization, coating, etching, and more available to a wide variety...
HumanWare
In Drummondville, Quebec, a manufacturing operation is quietly reshaping what accessibility means for people who are blind or visually impaired—from braille devices and tactile displays to wearable...
Stronix
In industries where machinery operates under extreme conditions, reliability and performance are not optional, they are essential. From mining operations to forestry equipment and power generation...
RawMaxx
RawMaxx Trailers, based in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico, manufactures top-of-the-line steel-built trailers and ancillary products. The company’s dump, gooseneck, utility,...
CPS Wood Products
Regarded as a pioneer and a green leader in providing wooden pallets and crates for a variety of shipping needs, CPS Wood Products serves both Canada and the United States, producing high-quality...
How Circular Thinking Is Reshaping Industry
There was a time when sustainability in manufacturing was considered on the leading edge of trends, but no longer. Now sustainability has become table stakes when people think of the products they...
Innovation Reshapes a Legacy Industry
Can North America’s venerable pulp and paper sector adapt to changing economic and cultural conditions? The paper manufacturing industry, as it is called in government records, covers everything...
Electronic Craftsmen
Electronic Craftsmen (E Craftsmen Corp) celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, a testament to the value of its products and the company’s work ethic and business smarts. Based in Waterloo,...
Septimatech Group
Established in Waterloo, Ontario in 1993, Septimatech (Sept-Team-a-Tek) helps manufacturers improve packaging line performance through practical, application-driven container-handling and changeover...
Kemflo Canada
For almost 40 years, Kemflo Canada has provided high-quality injection molded parts and integrated solutions to clients in the agriculture, construction, industrial/chemical, leisure (pool, spa, and...
LIVIO Building Systems
As artificial intelligence reshapes the global economy, the race to build the infrastructure that supports it has brought about one of the construction industry’s most urgent challenges. Data...
Great Northern Cabinetry
Turning ordinary houses into extraordinary homes, all while employing safety, superior quality, timely delivery, and individualized customer service, is at the heart of every project by Great...
G.W. Becker, Inc.
From steel production to mining, heavy machinery to warehousing, and everything in between, countless industries rely on overhead cranes to move heavy items safely and efficiently in their...
Tube-Mac Piping Technologies
Tube-Mac Piping Technologies is a piping engineering firm that defies the ordinary. Clean, cost-effective, and leak-free, the company’s three market-disrupting systems are setting the bar for...
Tayco
When it comes to core values, Tayco Office Furnishings Inc. truly puts words into action. One of Canada’s foremost office furniture manufacturers, Tayco is committed to crafting products that are...
Ontario Drive & Gear (ODG)
While many look forward to the start of a new year, some years are more tumultuous than others. In 1962, growing tensions between the United States and Cuba escalated rapidly following the Cuban...
Galco
While much of the industrial sector wrestled with disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, Galco emerged stronger. Since 2019, the company has doubled in size and sales by redefining what industrial...
John W. McDougall Co., Inc.
Supplying award-winning metal façades that enhance some of the country’s most prestigious structures—think Spaceship Earth, familiarly known as the Epcot Ball, at Disney World in Florida—John W....
PMF Industries, Inc.
PMF Industries boasts a long and illustrious history, tracing its roots back to 1950, when Svensk Metallforädling (Swedish Metal Refining Co.) established its American subsidiary, Steelex, in...
Technology and Sustainability Shape the Future
Injection molding is a method used by machine part manufacturers to produce large quantities of parts through the injection of molten material into a mold. The process has evolved considerably since...
The Art of Making Tough, Durable, Low-Weight Cars and Planes
Lightweighting can be defined as “the process of making an object that weighs less without compromising its strength or performance,” states the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This...
RagnarTech
The name and work of Anders Ragnarsson precede him in the wood processing and recycling sectors, as his legacy and impact spans decades, companies, and a constantly innovative approach to equipment...
Steel Systems Installation
It is easy to forget how much our world relies on the quality of aggregates used in concrete and other applications. To ensure they supply end users with only the finest-quality stone, sand, and...
Terradyne Armored Vehicles
Terradyne Armored Vehicles Inc. of Newmarket, Ontario plans to take part in a huge military procurement program and make a splash at an international trade show in Saudi Arabia. The company designs...
Lawton Standard Co.
American cast manufacturer The Lawton Standard Co. is finishing its seventh year of business. Since we previously spoke for Manufacturing in Focus in 2024, Director of Sales and Marketing Andy...
Brukar Inc.
For Brukar Inc., 2026 promises to be a year of exceptional growth, both in Canada and overseas. Due to customer demand in North America, the company will renovate its existing 20,000-square-foot...
Knoll America Inc.
KNOLL America Inc. recently went from being a sales, service, and repair outlet for European products to a fully-fledged and well-settled American fabrication facility. Growing sales by around 40...
Columbia/Okura
By the time many automation companies reach their third decade, they are defined either by scale or by specialization. Columbia/Okura has managed to hold both in balance. As this joint venture...
Quality Components Company
Backed by 50 years of experience, Ohio-based Quality Components Company (QCC) is a leader in its specialty—manufacturing, selling, and servicing torches, gas control and gas distribution systems,...
Center Street Technologies
The United States is well underway with its strategy to strengthen domestic manufacturing, but reaping the many economic advantages therein will not be possible without players like Center Street...