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...
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...
Horsburgh & Scott
Founded in 1886 and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Horsburgh & Scott (H&S) is one of the world’s leading providers of custom industrial gears and gearboxes. This company has built a...
Zemarc Corporation
As Zemarc Corporation approaches its 50-year milestone, the California-based fluid power and motion control specialist finds itself at a pivotal intersection of legacy and reinvention. Founded in...
Pack Air Inc.
That package you ordered lands on your porch—great! Everything inside the box is in one piece—even better! You go on about your day. But for that box to land on your porch (especially in one piece),...
LasX
LasX Industries Inc. of St. Paul, Minnesota designs and manufactures patented industrial laser processing systems. Its lasers are used to mark, perforate, engrave, ablate, and cut everything from...
Engage Technologies Corporation
When it comes to packaging, it’s one thing to innovate in your small corner, but quite another to actualize those ideas across the entire global field of delivering top products to the world. It...
Texas Injection Molding
Titles such as President, Vice President, CEO, and COO are par for the course in business. But the CEO of Texas Injection Molding felt he could do better. As a nameplate on Jeff Applegate’s desk...
Texas Pride Trailers
Before the sun even comes up over a job site in Houston, a contractor is already backing his Texas Pride dump trailer into position. 800 miles away in Atlanta, a landscaping crew loads equipment...