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4 weeks ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
Recruiting good employees continue to top manufacturers’ list of concerns. Despite a rising unemployment rate and escalating college tuition, the dearth of desirable workers headed for manufacturing remains a problem. School counselors and parents appear to be softening their focus on academic colleges as a sole path to a promising career.
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1 month ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
In its 80th year, Ajax Metal Forming Systems boasts 100-plus employees across three U.S. locations: its headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, as well as plants in Wilson, NC, and Tucson, AZ. The Ajax team is versed in all facets of sheet metal-part production and assembly, including stamping, laser cutting, CNC turret punching, press brake forming and welding, as well as tool build and maintenance for all of its processes.
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1 month ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
The other, and really the faster-growing part of our business, is custom fabrication—for clients who are looking for quick-turn, high-mix, low-volume work. We’ll have a client that will send us an order with 80 different SKUs and some of them end up getting combined and packaged in the whole works. The average time a job is on our floor is 8 days.
2. What are some of the principles that guide your management approach?
Our core values are respect, accountability and initiative.
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1 month ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
Metal-service center Kloeckner Metals Corp., headquartered
in Roswell, GA, has acquired Haley Tool & Stamping Inc., Franklin, TN. Kloeckner operates more than 55 branches in
the United States and Mexico, and more than 120 worldwide. Haley Tool & Stamping operates a 50,000-sq.-ft. facility strategically located near Kloeckner’s KGS Steel facility in Nashville, TN, its service center in Murfreesboro, TN, and its American Fabricators facility in Lebanon, TN.
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1 month ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
Wieland has broken ground on a $500-million modernization project,
including the addition of a state-of-the-art hot rolling mill, at its facility
in East Alton, IL. The firm supplies semi-finished copper and copper-alloy
products via a global network of more than 80 production sites and service and
trading companies.
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1 month ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
Aluminum producer Novelis Inc. has successfully tested using
hydrogen fuel to power a recycling furnace at its UK plant in Latchford,
Warrington. The tests were carried out as part of a UK-government
decarbonization program and in collaboration with Progressive Energy, an
independent UK energy company. Novelis installed new burners, regenerators and
furnace-lining material at the facility.
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1 month ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
I thought I had to turn the car off while charging, like fueling gas. (I was wrong.)It was a very hot day, so we all got out of the car while it charged. One adult tried out a public scooter while we swwaited (sweated while waited). The others zoned into their smart phones. EVgo’s fast chargers can deliver power ranging from 50 to 350 kW, but the Bolt’s max charge rate of 50 kW reined in the speed.
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2 months ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
Aida Engineering, Sagamihara City, Japan, parent company of press manufacturer Aida-America, has received the 2024-2025 Metalforming Technology Grand Prize from the Japan Forming Machinery Association. It earned the award for revolutionizing the production of a motorized power-steering joint, switching from a sintering and machining process to a cold-forming process using an Aida press.
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2 months ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman
Working Toward Net Zero by 2050The World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development developed the concept of Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions as part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, an international set of guidelines for measuring and reporting GHG. The Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) formed specifically to help steel producers blaze a path that accurately counts steelmaking carbon emissions to achieve 2050 net-zero goals.
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2 months ago | 
metalformingmagazine.com | Kate Bachman |Brad Kuvin
Outside of an official order, Trump continued to threaten to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, beginning February 1, and 10% on China, also on February 1. This issue’s publishing schedule precedes Feb. 1; time will tell what occurs on that date, but it’s highly likely that tariffs in some form will be applied. Tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% aluminum from all countries except Canada and Mexico currently exist, as well as on a multitude of other imports, including solar panels.
