Going out and seeing what your customers are up against on a daily basis is essential to solving their unmet needs, a pre-requisite for innovation. But manufacturers can also plant the seeds of innovation by establishing a culture that encourages collaboration, play, and experimentation.
Read MoreValley Extrusions’ specialty is extruding components and finishing them into parts.
Read MoreTwo fabricators take two parts and redesign them to save money
Read MoreVecna has invested heavily in not only its own technology, but in developing a strong robotics ecosystem that supports industry growth
Read MoreWALPOLE, Mass.—Building on $40 billion of U.S. investment over the last 15 years, Siemens recently broke ground on a major expansion of a key Siemens Healthineers manufacturing and R&D facility for laboratory diagnostics in...
Read MoreLowercase, an eyewear company that utilizes twenty-first century manufacturing techniques, such as robotics, will be the first advanced manufacturing startup to operate out of the Brooklyn Army Terminal in New York, New York. In...
Read MoreRIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.—Samsung has agreed with the State of South Carolina to open a state-of-the-art home appliance manufacturing plant in Newberry County. The $380 million facility will produce some of Samsung’s most popular...
Read MoreDuraTech Industries Inc., which provides high-quality custom label printing services for customers worldwide, is breaking ground on a $7.5 million, 47,300-square-foot expansion to the company’s manufacturing facility in La...
Read MoreEXPLORATION PARK, Fla.—OneWeb Satellites LLC broke ground earlier this year on its estimated $85 million high-volume satellite manufacturing factory in Exploration Park, Florida. During a March ceremony with Florida Governor...
Read MoreBRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Intelligent Audio Products Corp. (IAP) recently announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the former factory of Adrian Acoustics and Alta Audio. Intelligent Audio...
Read MoreCLEVELAND—Parker Hannifin Corp., the manufacturer of motion and control technologies, has opened a new advanced manufacturing learning and development center at Parker’s Corporate Technology Ventures facility in Macedonia,...
Read MoreCold-extrusion metal forming process enables design flexibility, lower buy-to-fly ratio, and economical, lightweight parts
Read MoreNORTHBROOK, Ill.—Impossible Objects’ Model One 3D printer won the RAPID + TCT Innovation Award for 2017, presented at the Rapid + TCT Conference in Pittsburgh in May. The Rapid + TCT Innovation Award recognizes the new product...
Read MoreCINCINNATI—A collaboration involving Steelhead Composites, Vartega, and Michelman—all members of the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI)—is responsible for the development of what is reported to be...
Read MoreWHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.— Look up to the heavens on a clear night, and you will see countless twinkling stars. What you won’t see are the hundreds of satellites and rockets orbiting the globe. Many of these contain miniature...
Read MoreDAYVILLE, Conn.—Putnam Plastics Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced extrusions for minimally invasive medical devices, reported earlier this year that it has expanded its capabilities to include advanced laser machining and...
Read MoreL&R Precision Tooling has bolstered its capabilities for aerospace work with AS9100 certification and open capacity for horizontal machining
Read MoreNEW KENSINGTON, Pa.—JK Tool Inc., a designer and manufacturer of progressive stamping tools, precision machined components, and custom assemblies, recently moved into a new, custom designed facility in New Kensington,...
Read MoreHeavy gauge thermoformer expands into gas assist injection molding
Read MoreOAKLAND, Calif.—The electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider Digicom Electronics, Inc., recently announced that it has been certified by Intertek as conforming to the requirements of AS9100:2016 (RevD) and ISO...
Read MoreAssembling a printed circuit board requires more than steady hands
Read MoreMETUCHEN, N.J.—C+K Plastics, Inc., recently announced that its Conyers, Georgia location achieved certification to the ISO 9001:2008 standard. C+K Plastics is a manufacturer of thermoformed plastic products and assemblies for...
Read MoreWICHITA, Kan.—Spirit AeroSystems (SPR) recently announced the creation of a new center of excellence to manufacture complex commercial and military aircraft parts. The new center, located on the company’s headquarters campus in...
Read MorePLATTSBURGH, N.Y.—Norsk Titanium AS has completed a definitive purchase agreement to bring 12 additional Rapid Plasma Deposition™ (RPD™) Merke-IV™ machines to its Plattsburgh, New York production facility, the company announced...
Read MoreNEW YORK—NanoGraphene Inc. (www.nanographene.net) announced in July that it has produced its first graphene from its plant at in Industry City, Brooklyn (industrycity.com), which is being developed as an innovation center. The...
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