This month’s industry spotlight is brought to us by Del Williams, a technical writer who lives in Torrance, California.
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BOLD Laser Automation, Inc. of Bedford, NH USA, announces its LMM500 series of laser tools for early-stage medical (Catheters / Stents) and fluidic device manufacturers (3D Printing / Inkjet Printing). When prototyping requires quick turn and iterative test devices, the LMM500 is a useful laser micromachining tool for 2D and 3D laser processing. The BOLD
Art French, founder of New England Metal Finishing, Inc., a SurfacePrep Company located in Windsor, CT, retired May 31 after a 33-year career building and leading the company. His career and accomplishments were honored at a company-wide celebration at the end of May, which also honored the retirement of office manager Linda Clark. Art founded
This month’s industry spotlight is brought to us by Jeff Elliott, who lives in Torrance, California and has written about technical issues for 20 years. Submitted to the Gateway for consideration, we opted to run with it because creating a more sustainable manufacturing environment is something we all ought to be focusing on and utilizing improved efforts to clean and recycle the oils helping to run our operations is a giant step in the right direction.
Manufacturing has been a male-dominated industry through and through. Many industries, like tech or medicine, began as male-dominated. As time went on, those industries shifted into a more equal split. Throughout the 20th century, the manufacturing industry began a shift to lessen the gender disparity but leveled off in the 1970s and hasn’t progressed again in the last five decades. Since the 1970s, the percentage of women in manufacturing has stayed around 30%, barely fluctuating. According to the 2017 United States Census, women make up nearly half of the working population in the U.S. but make up only one-third of the workforce in the manufacturing industry.
Addition makes way for top-of-the-line equipment and future growth. Meredith-Springfield Associates, Inc., a world-class plastics manufacturer specializing in bottles and hollow technical articles manufactured through extrusion blow molding and injection stretch blow molding, celebrated a new era and commitment to global growth and its hometown community by breaking ground on an expansion in Ludlow, Mass.
Owner Alan Ortner to remain with the company in the role of CEO. Berlin, Conn. (June 17, 2021): Sirois Tool announces today that longtime employee Andre Nadeau has been promoted from Operations Manager to the position of President of the company. Nadeau has been a member of Sirois’ management team for 12 years, and as
Jeff Rudman, Owner/President of Consolidated Coating Company, out of Bellingham, MA, was recently named to the National Small Business Association (NSBA) Leadership Council. NSBA is the nation’s oldest small-business advocacy organization and operates on a staunchly nonpartisan basis. Rudman, a recognized leader in the small-business community, joins the NSBA Leadership Council alongside other small-business advocates
This month we put the spotlight on Plastic Design Inc., and we thought we’d further the insight by talking shop about what plastic weld manufacturing is, the advantages of working with plastic, and the differences between machining two common forms of material, acrylic and polycarbonate. Much of the following verbiage was originally presented in Plastic Design Inc.’s blog and repurposed with permission for the advantage of our Gateway Magazine readers. Let’s dive right in.
Esco Tool of Holliston, MA has announced their new rental service for a pipe beveling machine which is an option to replace hand grinding function for superior weld results. Their pipe beveling tool is best utilized for performing precision end preps on pipe up to 24” O.D. which is said to be producing perfectly square