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Christopher Landau, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, launched a Twitter campaign Tuesday urging efforts to keep supply chains intact. He expressed concern about virus lockdowns damaging the flow of parts and goods that feed businesses in the United States, Mexico and Canada and warned that "if we do not coordinate our response, these chains can evaporate."
More information 2020-05-06Founded in 1944, the company has the ability to provide high-quality products and solutions with quick turnaround times on orders ranging from standard to highly custom. Western will unite under one platform with Pennsylvania Machine Works (Penn Machine), a Wynnchurch portfolio company. According to Wynnchurch, the acquisition creates one of the largest domestic, vertically integrated manufacturers of fittings and flanges.
More information 2020-04-24After a production stop for about six weeks, MAN Truck & Bus plants will gradually resume production at reduced capacity starting April 27, 2020. Here, too, the protection of employees has top priority, so that extensive measures have been implemented in accordance with a detailed plan. These include, among other things, ensuring a wider distance between employees, changing the routing and, where necessary, protective equipment as well as training and instruction of employees.
More information 2020-04-24Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at ASI said: “Our congratulations go to Hammerer Aluminium Industries on their ASI Performance Standard Certification. Basing their production on recycled aluminium scrap enables the company to make a significant contribution to a sustainable aluminium value chain, and their ASI Certification demonstrates an additional level of commitment to responsible production.”
More information 2020-04-24North American Stainless (NAS) and its 1,500 workers are producing thousands of tons of high-quality stainless steel used on the front lines of the U.S. healthcare system as it battles COVID-19, according to the company. The Ghent, Ky.-based facility is responding to the immediate increase in demand for high-quality stainless steel used in products such as ventilators, oxygen tanks, hospital beds and more.
More information 2020-04-20The Tofaş and Oyak-Renault establishment in 1969 is deemed as a significant development that helped the industry come out of a cocoon. More recently, as per the report, “Turkish Automotive Industry Agenda” conducted by the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Investment Office and EY in Turkey, the USD 15 billion OEM investment made between 2000 and 2018 in their Turkey operations is said to have significantly expanded the manufacturing capabilities. It is believed to have led Turkey to establish itself as a key part of the international OEM value chain.
More information 2020-04-20Hüttenes-Albertus (HA), the world’s leading manufacturer of chemical products for the foundry industry, has announced that the company will continue its partnerships with the US-American specialty chemicals company SI Group in both Brazil and South Africa - following the termination of the agreement between ASK Chemicals and SI Group in terms of the intended disposal of SI Group´s Industrial Resin business to ASK Chemicals.
More information 2020-04-20Ellison’s business generated revenues of $ 59 million (£ 48 million) for 2019, with associated pro-forma EBITDA of $ 12 million (£ 10 million). This represented revenue growth on 2018 of 17 %, while pro-forma EBITDA increased 48 %, reflecting the fact that Ellison has been successfully gaining share. This also positions the business for further revenue and profit growth in future years. Bodycote will receive tax benefits worth at least $ 30 million (£ 24 million) in the years to come. Ellison employs almost 400 people across six sites located across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
More information 2020-04-13Fives received an order from CELSA Group, a manufacturer of steel long products based in Spain, for a walking-beam furnace. The furnace, which has a capacity of 120 tons per hour, will reheat billets of different sections and lengths to serve a new rolling mill that specializes in the production of steel billets from the recovery of scrap. The furnace includes complete digital on/off control and heat-curve control for optimum combustion. It will be installed in the CELSA France plant located in the municipalities of Boucau and Tarnos, New Aquitaine region. Commissioning is scheduled in the fall.
More information 2020-04-13Aucotec's Engineering Base (EB) platform will ensure the consistency of the plant and the digital image at Oxea in the future. The leading manufacturer of oxo chemicals has decided to develop and operate its plants with the data-centred, cooperative system from the first sketch to predictive maintenance. It thus forms the basis for the digital twins of Oxea's plants over their entire life cycle.
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