News

Supply Chain

Reshoring Initiative Celebrates Anniversary and Key Accomplishments

The Reshoring Initiative celebrated its first year of incorporation on Sept. 17, as well as the achievement of significant national attention and support of its efforts to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. The number of companies and organizations that support its mission has more than doubled in the past 18 months.

Read More
3D Printing

In'Tech Industries Inc. Expands 3D Printing Expertise with Acquisition of Vista Technologies LLC (VistaTek) Additive Manufacturing Division

Acquisition adds Objet PolyJet® Printing and Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM®) Capabilities to In'Tech's Rapid Prototyping (RP) and Additive Manufacturing (AM) Center

Read More

Equipment Lease Finance Industry Confidence Ticks Up in September

Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market is 53.0, up from the August index of 50.2, reflecting increased optimism despite concerns over companies’ willingness to expand their businesses in the face of economic and political uncertainty.

Read More

Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers Project Strong Second Half 2012

The majority of surveyed manufacturers report healthy revenue projections, strong hiring and capital spending plans. However, for a small portion of respondents these plans may see delays due to uncertainty about the results of the federal elections.

Read More

High-Speed Roughing at IMTS

Delcam is demonstrating its new Vortex strategy for high-speed area clearance at IMTS this week.

Read More
Leadership

Solid Improvement in August Credit Managers Index

The National Association of Credit Management’s (NACM) economic report for August 2012 effectively eliminated the threat of a summer slump with improvements in both manufacturing and service sectors

Read More
Regulations

Equipment Lease Finance Industry Confidence Neutral in August

The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) has released the August 2012 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative assessment of both the prevailing business conditions and expectations for the future as reported by key executives from the $628 billion equipment finance sector. Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market is 50.2, down from the July index of 51.5, reflecting ongoing industry concerns over economic, regulatory and political uncertainty

Read More
Leadership

A Showcase for the Latest Technology for Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) Molding

In conjunction with industry leading flashless mold manufacturing partner Roembke Mfg. & Design, Inc. (Ossian, IN), Shin-Etsu Silicones of America (SESA: A U.S. subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd., Japan), will be a co-sponsor of Roembke’s “Innovation Days” event at their facility on September 25th and 26th, 2012. The objective of the event, which coincides with Roembke’s 35th Anniversary, is to showcase the latest technology for Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) molding with a wide array of industry leading supply partners.

Read More

SPE and SPI Agree to Cooperate on a Growth Plan for a Wide Range of Events at SPE ANTEC® in 2013, 2014, and 2015

Agreement Calls for Co-Location of SPI’s ‘Business of Plastics’ Conference and Promises New Growth in Attendance, Exhibit Space, and Sponsorship Sales

Read More

EMO Hannover 2013 Will Showcase “Intelligence in Production”

Exhibitors will be giving their answers to challenges for production technology worldwide – registration documents sent out to more than 60 countries.

Read More
Techspex
MoldMaking Technology Magazine
Progressive Components
Data Flute
North America’s Premier Molding and Moldmaking Event
Optimized Hot Runner Systems for Packaging
MMT Today enews
Progressive Components
Data Flute