It was 1990. The internet was just starting to take its first steps toward revolutionizing the world. The manufacturing industry was undergoing significant changes, including a major shift toward...
Fabrication & Machining
LEWCO, Inc.
A Century of Fabrication Excellence
As a self-sufficient custom fabricator of both material handling conveyor systems and industrial ovens, LEWCO, Inc. of Sandusky, Ohio serves customers across the United States and around the world....
Argus
Giving Back, Looking Ahead: A Rich History Creates Core Values
At the forefront of energy and industrial machining for more than 65 years, Argus produces energy goods along with threading and custom manufacturing services for a variety of sectors worldwide....
The Capital Group
Capital Gains
Recognized as America’s largest metal manufacturing equipment distributor, The Capital Group optimizes its customers’ return on investment in sophisticated metal fabrication equipment. The company...
Peak Toolworks
Cutting Tool Excellence and Close Customer Ties for Over 80 Years
For over 80 years, Peak Toolworks has made some of the best cutting tools in the business. Headquartered in Jasper, Indiana, with multiple locations across North America, this ISO 9001:2015...
Horsburgh & Scott
Speed, Precision, and Responsiveness
Offering more than 135 years of combined expertise developing, producing, and repairing gearboxes for heavy-duty applications worldwide, Horsburgh & Scott has effectively established design...
Hull Forest Products
From the Backyard to an Industry Leader
In today's world, words like “sustainable” and “renewable” are everywhere, but what do they really mean? For Hull Forest Products, these words are put into action every day, as they have been for...
Dynamix Inc.
Coatings With High-Performance Protection
Since opening its doors in 2006, Dynamix Inc. of Markham, Ontario, has supplied custom surface-finish coating chemicals mainly used by Canadian and other North American fabricators who supply...
Macro Engineering & Technology
Bringing the Creative Approach to Custom Extrusion Systems
For 40 years, Macro Engineering & Technology has helped film and sheet makers in the consumer goods, medical, industrial, and food packaging industries achieve their production goals. As a...
Septimatech Group
Adapting and Evolving
Experts in overcoming difficulties involved with optimizing changeovers and container handling on packaging lines, Septimatech Group’s knowledge and expertise gathered from working on more than...
Acorn Manufacturing
This Family-Run Iron Hardware Firm Forges Ahead
Acorn Manufacturing Company, Inc. is a decades-old family business in Mansfield, Massachusetts that manufactures and distributes forged iron builders’ hardware across the United States and abroad....
Mahler Machining
Collaborative Leadership, Customer Care, and Shared Knowledge
Established in 1983 in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Mahler Machining has grown from a manual machine shop into a flourishing CNC machining facility committed to creating quality products and...
Cincinnati Gasket and Industrial Glass
Keeping Industry Running Smoothly and Safely
Recently, we had the pleasure of speaking with Matt Uecker, Sales and Marketing Manager, and learning that what goes on inside Cincinnati Gasket and Industrial Glass’ 65,000-square-foot...
ARCH Cutting Tools
The U.S. Manufacturer for U.S. Manufacturers
Established in 2011, ARCH Cutting Tools may be a comparatively young manufacturer of highly engineered metalworking solutions, but it is big for its age. Manufacturing a broad offering, from...
KM Industrial Machinery
When the Best Manufacturers Work, This Is Who They Work With
Since 1942, KM Industrial Machinery has been on the cutting edge of technology. As one of America’s foremost leaders in the machine tool industry, the Kalamazoo, Michigan-based distributor believes...
Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing
A Premium Fit for 40 Years
Following COVID-19, supply chain issues made North America and the rest of the world realize the dangers of exporting fabrication. As a result, premium prototype-to-production, with the latest in...
SafTCart
Rapid Expansion and Growth in Clarksdale, Mississippi
Supplying everything necessary to transport and protect packaged gas cylinders, SafTCart, Inc. is a leader in quality fabrication with its roots firmly set in the Mississippi Delta. Judging by its...
Chemistry Industry Association of Canada
Changing Perceptions
From concerns about plastic pollution in oceans to sustainability, our collective viewpoint on the future health of the planet and its almost eight billion inhabitants is changing, and the Chemistry...
Macro Engineering & Technology
Bringing the Creative Approach to Custom Extrusion Systems
For 40 years, Macro Engineering & Technology has helped film and sheet makers in the consumer goods, medical, industrial, and food packaging industries achieve their production goals. As a...
Fullerton Tool Company
Shining Like a Diamond
Fullerton Tool Company drives tremendous savings for its global clientele in solid carbide cutting tools. That is why leaders in the medical, aerospace, and other manufacturing industries are lining...
GROB Systems
Speeding Ahead in the E-Mobility Market
Manufacturing equipment provider GROB is experiencing accelerated growth, with new products, new staff, and a new focus. Founded in 1926 in Munich, Germany by Ernst Grob (whose family still controls...
Dynamix Inc.
Coatings With High-Performance Protection
Since opening its doors in 2006, Dynamix Inc. of Markham, Ontario, has supplied custom surface-finish coating chemicals mainly used by Canadian and other North American fabricators who supply...
Kal-Polymers
This Family Plastics Reprocessing Company Has Its Eye on Growth
Kal-Polymers will be massively expanding its capacity this year, a move that will enhance the company’s position as a leader in the North American plastics recycling sector. Based in Mississauga,...
Peninsula Plastics
New Products, New Ownership for This Family Firm
Big changes have taken place at Peninsula Plastics Ltd., a start-to-finish custom injection moulding company in Fort Erie, Ontario, since it was profiled in February 2021’s Resource in Focus...
Innovative Machining
28 Years of Top Quality Machining
With Innovative Machining, LLC, securing comprehensive custom solutions and component fabrication services is as easy as setting up a call. Over a nearly three-decade legacy of putting independence...
Peninsula Plastics
New Products, New Ownership for This Family Firm
Big changes have taken place at Peninsula Plastics Ltd., a start-to-finish custom injection moulding company in Fort Erie, Ontario, since it was profiled in February 2021’s Resource in Focus...
3DXTECH
High Performance
The story of 3DXTECH began when, after thirty years of working for global leaders in the high-performance plastics and composites industry, the emerging technology of three-dimensional (3D) printing...
Blade Air
Making Clean Air a Priority
Coming through three years of a pandemic has made us all more sensitive to things we would otherwise take for granted. One of the biggest of these is the air that we breathe—especially in our...
Barclay Mechanical
A Fantastic Place to Work – And It’s Growing
Barclay Mechanical is a leader in industrial mechanical construction that is taking safety management to an entirely new level on projects across America. By becoming the positive change they want...
Gravotech
Making Its Mark
Gravotech is built upon a rich history of engraving. The company’s story began in 1938, in New York City under the name New Hermes, when a small team began producing advanced pantographs that...
Drake Manufacturing
Maintaining Tight Tolerances – Fifty Years of CNC Excellence
In times such as these, with reshoring making a comeback, it is good to know that there are manufacturers on American soil that never left. Celebrating half a century in business this year, Drake...
Air Logic
Leveraging Decades of Manufacturing Expertise into an Exceptional Client Experience
Molded components manufacturer Air Logic, based out of Wisconsin, is perhaps best known in its industry for its orifice restrictors, the flow control devices that work especially well in...
Harmony Castings, LLC
Top-Class People Delivering Top-Class Castings
One could easily forgive the uninitiated for wondering what the fuss is about when it comes to professionally casting components in a metal often found around barbecues and kitchens. The truth,...
5th Axis Inc.
For Machinists By Machinists: A Celebration of Innovation
Established in 2004 as a CNC business with just one machine, San Diego-based 5th Axis Inc. has enjoyed steady success over the years, now working with more than 100 three-, four-, and five-axis...
Superior Fabrication Company
Pulling Back the Curtain – Resourceful, Transparent Fabrication With a Smile
Much like Atlas carrying the ancient Greek world on his celestial shoulders, material handling machinery tends to be one of the unsung heroes moving and carrying the supplies that sustain the world...
Des-Case Corporation
The Original Provider of the Desiccant Breather
The Des-Case Corporation is a world leader in designing innovative solutions for protecting lubricants from contamination. The lifespan of any piece of mechanical equipment is directly related to...
Automation Plastics Corporation
Breaking the Mold for 25 Years
The leading manufacturer of thick wall polyethylene components for natural gas distribution systems, Automation Plastics Corporation specializes in the custom molding of thermoplastic injection...
Firing Industries Ltd.
Meeting Needs and Finding Solutions
As a leading Canadian supplier of innovative processing equipment, Firing Industries has enjoyed ongoing success. But the best two years in company history occurred recently – in 2020 and 2021,...
Service Door Industries
Creating Partnerships
Founded in 1988 by Dave Thompson and Brian Payne, Service Door Industries Ltd. – which soon became known to customers simply as Service Door or SDI – soon built a reputation for quality,...
Inteplast Group
Difference Makers
Every little bit helps when it comes to reducing carbon footprints and minimizing environmental impacts, especially for companies like Inteplast Group, the largest manufacturer of integrated...
IMPACT Converting & Systems Solutions
Uniting Six Tool and Die Manufacturers Under One Brand
Historically a tool and die manufacturer for the converting industry, IMPACT makes a collection of tools and systems that complete the cutting, creasing, or folding processes of production. IMPACT...
Technical Metals Inc.
Where Precision Meets Production
Technical Metals Inc. (TMI), a privately owned company based in Fairbury, Illinois, is a metal fabrication company which has been providing quality manufacturing solutions since 1970. Before coming...
Advanced Test and Automation
Learning, Improving, Expanding – and Saving Lives
As the world approaches the second anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Khoraych looks back on the past months as both a challenge and a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience...
Eimo Technologies
Enduring Challenges – and Emerging as the Top Plastics Supplier
Plastics fabrication company Eimo Technologies serves its North American customers from its base in Vicksburg, Michigan. The business began operations in 1969, led by three entrepreneurs who...
Mancor Industries
Improving Fabrication with Next-Generation Software
Mancor Industries Inc. is well-respected by international manufacturing giants as a fabricator of precision-crafted metal components and sub-assemblies. From six facilities throughout the United...
CRANE 1
No Ceiling to CRANE 1’s Commitment to Customer Uptime
At CRANE 1, customer service and safety are top priorities. And under the leadership of President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Vevoda, outstanding products – and an outstanding company culture...
A+ Group
A Complete Solution
A+ Group has been providing manufacturers with plastic and metal hardware for a quarter of a century. Armed with an extensive inventory and multiple distribution centers, the Marlboro, New...
A World in Transition
Medical Device Manufacturing in the Age of 4.0
The medical device market appears strong with great potential for growth, but consolidation, the rapid advancement of industry 4.0, the persistence of COVID and demographic changes taking place will...
C-Axis Inc.
Making Precision a Priority
The manufacturing of medical devices takes exceptional care, quality and precision. C-Axis Inc. excels in all three as it builds exceptional critical-to-function components for the medical device...
Priority Plastics Inc.
It Takes a Heavyweight To Do This With Lightweight Plastics
Technological advancements talk. After investing nearly $25 million in its people, products and equipment, Priority Plastics is making a statement in North America by introducing more advanced,...