Modern Machine Shop News

EDAC Machinery Acquires Smith-Renaud

EDAC Machinery (Farmington, Connecticut) has acquired certain assets of Smith-Renaud (Cheshire, Connecticut), a privately-owned developer and remanufacturer of turnkey centerless grinding systems and a designer, manufacturer and rebuilder of custom precision spindles.

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High Turnout, “Brisk” Sales at Fabtech

Organizers report record first-day attendance for Fabtech 2012, the annual metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing exposition.

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Arch Global Precision Acquires Milling Cutter Product Line

Arch Global Precision has acquired Niagara Cutter’s milling cutter product line (MCPL). The product line is currently operated out of Athol, Massachusetts.

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Hwacheon Opens Technology Center

Hwacheon recently celebrated its 60th anniversary with the grand opening of its Technology Center in Gwangju, Korea.

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TCI President to Serve on NTMA Executive Team

John Belzer, president of TCI Precision Metals (Gardena, California) has agreed to fill a vacancy on the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) executive team effective immediately through March 2013.

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Zeiss Supports Dunwoody College of Technology

Metrology equipment manufacturer Carl Zeiss (Maple Grove, Minnesota) has entered an entrustment agreement to support the Dunwoody College of Technology (Minneapolis, Minnesota) with two CMMs and Calypso metrology software.

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Omax Expands Headquarters

Omax Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced abrasive waterjet machines and accessories, has expanded its Kent, Washington facility with a 22,000-square-foot building, bringing the campus to 130,000 total square feet spread across three buildings.   The company says several years of growth necessitated the expansion, which represents the largest addition to the campus since its opening in 1999.

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Okuma Hosts Technology Showcase

The event is scheduled for December 4-7 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing Welcomes Hermle, AgieCharmilles

Hermle Machine Company (Gosheim, Germany) and GF AgieCharmilles (Lincolnshire, Illinois) have joined the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), headquartered in Prince George County, Virginia.

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GF AgieCharmilles Marks 60-Year Milestone

GF AgieCharmilles is celebrating 60 years of continuous product development in electrical discharge machining (EDM). Founded in Switzerland with North American headquarters in Lincolnshire, Ill., the company began EDM research and development for industrial applications in 1952, which led to the company’s first die-sinking EDM in 1954 and the launch of the world’s first numerically controlled wire-EDM in 1969.

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