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Metal Spinning Company Opens in Texas
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
North Texas Metal Spinning, LLC, Fort Worth TX, is open for business. The firm is a joint venture between Wayne Boeckman, of WJB Holdings, Fort Worth, and Joe Glenn, Glenn Metalcraft Inc., Princeton, NJ.
Omax Expansion a Boon to Training, R & D and Engineering
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Waterjet-equipment manufacturer Omax Corp., Kent, WA, will add 22,000 sq. ft. to its corporate campus to extend its training, engineering and research and development efforts. Following the expansion, the firm will occupy 130,000 sq. ft. of space spread across three buildings;
www.omax.com/.
Metal Tubing Companies Unite
Monday, October 08, 2012
Private investment firm The Watermill Group, Lexington, MA, has acquired two manufacturers of metal tubing—Fine Tubes Ltd., Plymouth, UK, and Superior Tube Co. Inc., Collegeville, PA. Fine Tubes supplies the European market with seamless, welded and welded-and-drawn tubes of stainless steel, nickel, titanium and zirconium alloys;
www.finetubes.co.uk/. Superior Tube specializes in precision, small-diameter metal tubing for the nuclear, aerospace and medical markets, manufactured to tight tolerances from stainless steel, nickel alloys and high-temperature and reactive alloys;
www.superiortube.com/.