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Rollformer Earns Quality, Delivery Award
Monday, January 03, 2011
Hynes Industries, Youngstown, OH, earned a Platinum Award for outstanding quality and delivery performance from Wabash National Corp., a manufacturer of truck trailers. Hynes, which received the award at Wabash’s recent Key Supplier Conference in Lafayette, IN, supplies rollformed roof bows, side posts and other structural and cargo restraint components for Wabash’s over-the-road trailers. Hynes achieved 100-percent on-time delivery and has maintained an 8-PPM quality record. Learn more at
hynesind.com/formed.htm.
St. Paul Metalformer Acquired
by Defense-Industry Supplier
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Quality Tool, Inc., St. Paul, MN, has been acquired by Demmer Investments IV, Inc., an entity formed by Demmer Corp., Lansing, MI. Quality Tool operates 110,000 sq. ft. of production space in St. Paul and in a second shop in Brookings, SD, supplying stampings, fabricated- metal products and machined parts to diverse industrial, medical, telecommunications and defense-industry customers. Vertically integrated Demmer Corp. is known primarily for supplying the military market with components and assemblies for tanks, personnel carriers, bomb-resistant vehicles and the like. Learn more at
www.qualitytool.com and
www.demmercorp.com.
Indiana Distributor Takes on
Slovakian Fab-Equipment Lines
Thursday, December 23, 2010
The line of shears and folding equipment manufactured in Slovakia by HM Transtech will be exclusively marketed in North America by S Tech, LLC, Chesterton, IN. HM Transtech manufactures machines rated to 10-gauge by 72-in. capacity;
www.hmtranstech.sk. S Tech is online at
www.stechsolutionproviders.com.