Modern Machine Shop News

$2 Million Endowment Honors Former Carr Lane CEO

To honor the memory of Earl E.

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Rosler Unveils New Manufacturing Campus

Rosler Metal Finishing USA, a supplier of surface finishing equipment and consumables, recently celebrated the expansion of its facility in Battle Creek, Michigan.

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Nikon Opens New Tech Center

Nikon Metrology recently hosted more than 100 metrology and manufacturing professionals to introduce a new Technology Center at its American headquarters in Brighton, Michigan.   Brighton Mayor Ricci Bandkau was on-hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, and Gary Vasilash, editor-in-chief of “Automotive Design and Production” keynoted with an address on the state of the automotive industry. (“Automotive Design and Production” is a property of Gardner Publications, which also publishes “Modern Machine Shop.”)   With the theme “Advances in Industrial Metrology,” the opening event offered technology overviews and demonstrations of various new and updated products.

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PartMaker Training Initiative Aims To Reduce Skills Gap

PartMaker (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania), a division of Delcam, is offering free and reduced-cost training for its knowledge-based CAM system in an effort to help manufacturers take full advantage of Swiss-type and Turn-mill machine capabilities.   Any new or existing customer that orders more than $10,000 worth of software from the company before the end of the year will receive free training for one student (these customers can take the training in 2012 if they wish). Customers seeking only training will receive a 20 percent discount on standard rates.

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Sandvik Under New Global Leadership

Klas Forsström is now global president of cutting tool manufacturer Sandvik Coromant.   Mr.

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Tornos President Steps Down

Machine tool supplier Tornos US (Lombard, Illinois) has accepted the resignation of company president Scott Kowalski.

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Hexagon Partners with Hendrick Motorsports

Through a multi-year partnership agreement, Hexagon Metrology (North Kingstown, Rhode Island) has become the official provider of dimensional metrology products and services to NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports (Concord, North Carolina).   The winner of 10 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships says it has long used Hexagon products to for inspection and assembly of auto body, chassis and engine components for both pre-race adjustment and post-race evaluation.

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MAG Becomes Partner in MIT Graduate Program

Machine tool builder MAG IAS (Erlanger, Kentucky) has been named a partner in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) engineering and management program.   The company joins Boeing, Caterpillar, United Technologies and 20 other partner organizations in MIT LGO, a dual-degree graduate program in engineering and management.

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Merger Creates Third-Largest CAD/CAM Provider

Vero Software, a provider of CAD/CAM/CAE solutions for the tooling industry, has merged with Planit Holdings, a developer of CAD/CAM software for the production engineering, sheet metal, metal fabrication and woodworking sectors.

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Stratasys Expands Production Capacity

Stratasys (Minneapolis, Minnesota), a manufacturer of 3D printers, recently hosted a ribbon-cutting event for a 90,000-square-foot production facility purchased late last year.

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