People & Companies

ARCH Cutting Tools names Brian Barlow as general manager – ARCH Cutting Tools Rhode Island. Barlow is responsible for the overall business and production operations at the ARCH Cutting Tools Smithfield, Rhode Island, manufacturing facility. The plant invested in a 1,000-sq.-ft. expansion/… Read More...

Stellar Industrial Supply rrecognized Sandvik Coromant with a Documented Cost Savings award at the company's annual “STARS” Supplier Summit on Jan. 15, 2020. Accepting the award for a second year in a row was John Kaleta, channel relationships manager at Sandvik Coromant.

Macomb, Michigan-based Tooling Tech Group has announced that its TTG Automation facility in Temperance, Michigan, has completed a 14,000 sq. ft. expansion, bringing the total facility size to 59,000 sq. ft. The new area includes a new five-ton overhead crane system, air compressor and overhead… Read More...

American National Carbide (ANC), a leader in the manufacture of tungsten-carbide products for the energy and metalworking industries, announces a $4 million investment in the future of the company.

Horizontal machining center builder Niigata Machine Techno USA Inc., Elk Grove Village, Illinois has named Dan Selakovic as national service manager for its machine tool division. An industry-veteran, Selakovic returns to the builder after two decades in the field where he worked as a contractor… Read More...

Mitsui Seiki USA Inc. announces the appointment of Kyal Machine Tools Ltd. as its exclusive representative for machine tool sales and service in the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland.

With financial backing from their joint U.S. parent company Teradyne, Mobile Industrial Robots and Universal Robots have acquired a 50,000-sq.-m building site in Odense, where $36 million will be invested in the construction of a major cobot hub in the “cobot capital” of the world. Collaborative… Read More...

Forest City Gear has expanded its capacity for high precision finish grinding of external, internal, straight and helical gears and special profiles with the addition of its second KAPP VUS 55P form grinding machine.

Tavares, Florida-based GWS Tool Group has acquired North American Tool Corp. (NATC). This acquisition represents the second add-on acquisition in 2020 for GWS. Located in South Beloit, Illinois, NATC is a world-class supplier of special taps, dies and gages.

West Dundee, IL – January 29, 2020 – Renishaw Inc., a precision engineering and manufacturing technologies company, announced the appointment of Denis Zayia to the position of President of its USA operations.

Weiler Abrasives, a leading provider of abrasives, power brushes and maintenance products for surface conditioning, announced that it has partnered with Pacesetter Sales & Associates, McKellar, Ontario. Through this partnership, Pacesetter Sales & Associates is representing Weiler Abrasives… Read More...

OMAX Corp. announces that Landmark Solutions will be taking over Southern California distribution of all lines of OMAX waterjets.