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The Fabricator

  • Plasma cutting system improves electrode life, cutting quality
  • Bunting Magnetics Co. acquires MAGL
  • Airgas acquires A&N Plant
  • Manual waterjet bevel head cuts up to a 45-degree angle
  • Captive screw fasteners function as slam-to-close latches
  • Pneumatic presses accommodate 3 to 210 tons
  • How to implement quick die change
  • A ‘weld-done’ finish
  • Custom or standard?

Shopfloor (NAM)

  • Jobs, Coming and Going and Going and Going
  • CPSIA Update: Support for Stay of Tracking Label Requirement
  • If FTC Regulates Blogger Conflict of Interest, What about the Post?
  • CPSIA Update: A New Request for Stay on Labeling Requirement
  • Manufacturing Activity Improves for 6th Straight Month in June
  • California, Here We Come…NOOOOOOO!
  • Stimuluzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
  • An Illustrious Day, July 1
  • Card Check: Employees Who Don’t Want to Be Unionized
  • ‘Black Shirts’ - Just Words or Scripted Talking Points for VP Biden?

Carmen Electrode

  • 8 Simple Rules…
  • A Welding Rodeo!
  • Rosie the Riveter… In Technicolor!
  • The New Recruits
  • Give the Kids the Torches!
  • Euro… BLECH… !
  • Joe Welder’s Newest Video
  • Nascar and Welding go Hand in Hand
  • Women Can Do It All
  • FUSION Magazine Online

Manufacturingtalk

  • Mole Valley benefits from ACS downdraft bench
  • Schaeffler - latest company news
  • Fixed-vicinity RFID reader has 50cm range
  • Festo and V-viz team up to promote vision systems
  • HFT unveils Argweld inflatable weld purge systems
  • Brewery machine uses Visionpro guidance system
  • Test point beads support circuit-board components
  • Guyson unveils C400 dust collector
  • Microkerf launches instant laser quoting service
  • CIP releases TL series of material vertical lifts

Steel News from Google

  • Youngstown purchases land for V&M Star Steel expansion - WFMJ
  • Cap-n-trade bill could add $1B to steel costs - American Metal Market
  • Cliffs defers iron ore sale, extends plant closure - Forbes
  • Asian Shares End Mostly Lower Ahead Of US Jobs Data - Wall Street Journal
  • FACTBOX-World's top steel producers in 2008 - Reuters
  • Steel industry rekindles, full recovery months off - guardian.co.uk
  • Eurofer sees EU steel market bottoming out - guardian.co.uk
  • Asian Shares Mostly Higher; Miners Gain - Wall Street Journal
  • Flexing With Steel Stocks - Forbes
  • Schnitzer Steel posts fiscal 3Q loss - Boston Globe

Industrial Market Trends

  • Independence Day: Did You Know?
  • U.S. Manufacturers Face Critical Threats to Competitiveness
  • Weekly Industry Crib Sheet: Boeing Delays Dreamliner's First Flight (Again)
  • Light Friday: Unusual Economic Indicators
  • U.S. and E.U. File Trade Complaints Against China Over Exports
  • How New Gas Mandates Can Fuel Detroit Three Rebound
  • What's Your Corporate Culture?
  • Benefits à la Carte
  • 13 Types of Irritating Coworkers
  • Changing Jobs, Not Employers


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