North America’s Manufacturing Reset
North American manufacturing in 2026 is at a significant turning point as manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico transition from reactive recovery to long-term strategic...
The Digital Twin Revolution on the Shop Floor
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to revolutionize manufacturing, and global industry at large, with every new iteration. The term refers to how today’s physical technology is interconnected...
Elliott Tool Technologies
Since 1892, Elliott Tool Technologies has built its reputation on a simple premise: giving manufacturers the specialty tools they need, exactly when they need them. What began with the invention of...
Trevisan Machine Tool
Superb quality is timeless, and for more than six decades, Trevisan Machine Tool has made specialized machinery its golden standard. In a world where performance demands continue increasing, this...
Aved Electronics
Established in 1979, Aved Electronics has made a name for itself over the decades as a dependable manufacturing partner for OEMs in high-reliability industries. Today, operating from its recently...
Alstom Canada
In today’s workplace, many younger employees want more than a job; they want a position that reflects their personal beliefs and values in important areas like visionary green initiatives. These...
JBC Technologies
When Joe Bliss left his job at heavy-duty truck brake manufacturer Bendix in 1988, he had two things: an engineering degree and an entrepreneurial streak that would not let him work for anyone else....
Optimal Electric Vehicles
Recognized as the market leader in the design, engineering, and manufacture of low-floor shuttle buses and adjacent mobility solutions, Optimal Electric Vehicles is so much more than the products it...
Ben-Mor
As the youngest, fastest-growing, privately owned company of its kind in the Canadian cable assembly manufacturing industry, Ben-Mor is a forward-thinking firm with the largest fabrication capacity...
Quality Polly Pig Ltd.
If you have never heard of a pipeline pig, you are in good company. These unassuming devices rarely make headlines, yet they are quietly essential to the infrastructure that moves oil, gas, water,...
Altro
For Altro Industries Inc., building a legacy resides in being an industry leader with heart and strategy. Growing into one of Western Canada’s fastest-growing fabricators and processors in the paper...
The Case for Smarter Manufacturing
In the manufacturing world, ‘dark, dirty, and dangerous’ is being replaced with ‘dynamic, decent, and dependable’ as factories embrace Artificial Intelligence, robots, and cobots. Compared to just a...
Building a Solid Future for Canadian Manufacturing
“In a dangerous and divided world, Canada and Europe are elevating our defence partnerships to rapidly procure new equipment and technology, accelerate NATO targets, and catalyze tremendous...
Mallard Creek Polymers
When it comes to water-based emulsion polymers, Mallard Creek Polymers has carved out a place for itself in the global market, which is especially impressive for a company its size. Relatively...
Southland Trailers
Like white lightning—that is how quickly and efficiently Southland Trailers is changing the world of industrial trailer engineering and construction in North America. The company’s products are...
FLiNT Packaging Products
For fabricators of consumables in the Greater Toronto Area, the current property market is just one challenge to navigate when it comes to maintaining their good reputations for quality products and...
SLACAN Industries Inc.
When moving large volumes of high-voltage electricity from a source as powerful as Niagara Falls across vast geographies and into people’s homes, investing in the best hardware that money can buy is...
Smart Devices Are Reshaping Personal Health Care
It’s an understatement to say we are glued to our cellphones. Every ping, beep, or buzz has us reaching to pick them up. But the question is: will we be doing the same in 10 or 15 years? What if we...
The Illusion of Sustainability Claims
As a society, we are encouraged from an early age to make the world a better place. Public schools across North America have programs for children as young as four to learn climate literacy, from...
KB Components
Across North America, there are many polymer industry companies, but few offer the diverse skill sets, advanced technology, and global advantage of KB Components. Over almost 80 years, the...
Flex Technologies
Last year, Flex Technologies of Midvale, Ohio reached the half-century mark as a thermoplastics powerhouse. This one-stop shop handles all aspects of production, from compounding to manufacturing...
Estone Technology
In today’s manufacturing, medical, industrial, robotics, and autonomous systems markets, many companies have a product vision but not the full engineering, manufacturing, compliance, and lifecycle...
Codonics
For more than four decades, Codonics has built its reputation on a simple but disciplined principle: technology should solve real-world problems in healthcare. Founded in 1982 by Owner, President...
RealWear
RealWear began operations in Vancouver, Washington in 2016, and over the better part of the ensuing decade, its founders have established a footprint for creating wearable computer interfaces: smart...
Bay-Lynx Manufacturing
This year got off to a great start for Bay-Lynx Manufacturing. One of North America’s premier manufacturers of volumetric concrete mixers, stone spreaders, and structural beam “cold” cambering...
Plastiques Gagnon
Celebrating a legacy of more than 60 years, Plastiques Gagnon has built a tradition of excellence and unique expertise in plastic injection moulding, evolving from a small workshop into a major...
OLFA North America
Simple observations often inspire the greatest inventions. While breaking off a segment from a Hershey chocolate bar, Yoshio Okada thought of glass breaking and revealing a sharp piece, which...
MC Fastening Solutions
MC Fastening Solutions of Shelby Township, Michigan is a full-service supplier of nutrunners, hand tools, electro servo presses, and micro screwdrivers for automotive and other markets. As the North...
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...