As the global use of automation, robotics, and language processing artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT increases, many are questioning where the world is heading and not if, but when,...
April 2024
Michelin North America
Sustainability, Net Zero, even Rolling Resistance – Michelin’s on a Roll
Since 1891, when Michelin brothers Édouard and André, who ran a rubber factory in Clermont-Ferrand, France, applied for their first patent for an easy-to-remove pneumatic bicycle tire that lent...
Specific Mechanical Systems
A Brewing and Distilling Equipment Expert Continues to Innovate
Specific Mechanical Systems Ltd., a Victoria, British Columbia-based company that designs, manufactures, and installs brewing and distilling equipment, has expanded its automation processes and...
Champ Industries
Delivering What Is Promised
In just a few years, Champ Industries has seen a great deal of change come its way thanks to changes within and outside its walls. It currently has locations in Canada and the U.S., in Winnipeg,...
John W. McDougall Co.
Technology-Driven Metal Transformation
One can tell a lot about a company by the company it keeps. When vendors become customers and customers become vendors, as they do at John W. McDougall Co. Inc., it demonstrates that premium...
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC)
Moving Manufacturing Forward
The Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) provides a depth and breadth of services, programs, and opportunities for manufacturers. Headquartered in Owen Sound, Ontario, with a national...
Firing Industries Ltd.
Creating Sophisticated and Simplified Solutions
Working with customers to choose and provide technically complicated process machinery and equipment, Firing Industries Ltd. helps prominent Canadian businesses across numerous industries, including...
Wieland Healthcare
Innovative Healthcare Furniture
Wieland Healthcare is making waves in the healthcare furniture sector, succeeding alongside much bigger companies despite its more diminutive size. “We're a relatively small company within our...
CRS Crane Solutions
The Crane Experts
CRS Crane Solutions knows cranes. In business since 1991, the Alberta-based company has grown into one of the largest crane suppliers in North America, building a reputation for exceptional lifting...
Liberty Tire Recycling
Driving a Greener Tomorrow
Liberty Tire Recycling is on a mission to “drive a greener tomorrow that will improve our quality of life, protect our ecosystems and preserve natural resources,” explains the company’s website. The...
Norwich Plastics
Sustainable Success for This Vinyl Recycling and Reclaiming Company
Norwich Plastics of Cambridge, Ontario wants to lead North America in vinyl reprocessing. To this end, it diverts over 50 million pounds of the material from landfills each year. The company...
Banner Metals Group
Continuous Improvement Is Taking This Company Into the Future
To succeed in business for over a century takes determination, vision, skill, and the attitude to make it through tough times, which perfectly describes the metal products group Banner Metals....
Swiss Automation, Inc.
Still Leading the Industry
Swiss Automation, Inc. is one of the largest manufacturers of Precision Turned Components in the United States, with over half a century of history and experience. After featuring the Barrington,...
Phillips Corporation
The Latest and Greatest
Phillips Corporation has been solving manufacturing challenges for the United States government, industry, and education leaders for over half a century. The Hanover, Maryland-based business has...
A New Eco-Tech Sweeps San Francisco
Daisy Chains and Golden Gates
Wearing flowers in your hair has new significance when visiting San Francisco in the 21st century. Perhaps not such a far cry from the lyrics described in Scott McKenzie’s 1967 hit song, the city is...