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Emerson Recognizes 38 Marquee Suppliers—
Metalformer Among Them
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Emerson Electric Co., St. Louis, MO, has recognized 38 of its global suppliers by presenting them with Marquee Supplier awards. Among the winners: Brittany Stamping LLC, Cleveland, OH, a precision manufacturer of metal-stamped and wire-formed products. Brittany operates three subsidiary companies—Bettcher Manufacturing LLC (
www.bettcherllc.com), Duffy Tool & Stamping Ltd. (
www.duffytool.com), and Meyer Stamping & Manufacturing. Emerson’s Marquee Supplier award recognizes superior quality and service, alignment with its strategic initiatives. Ability to meet the needs of its multiple businesses from multiple locations around the world, willingness to integrate with its new-product development process, activity in support of lean supply-chain initiatives and senior-management involvement.
Emerson Recognizes 38 Marquee Suppliers—
Metalformer Among Them
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Emerson Electric Co., St. Louis, MO, has recognized 38 of its global suppliers by presenting them with Marquee Supplier awards. Among the winners: Brittany Stamping LLC, Cleveland, OH, a precision manufacturer of metal-stamped and wire-formed products. Brittany operates three subsidiary companies—Bettcher Manufacturing LLC (
www.bettcherllc.com), Duffy Tool & Stamping Ltd. (
www.duffytool.com), and Meyer Stamping & Manufacturing. Emerson’s Marquee Supplier award recognizes superior quality and service, alignment with its strategic initiatives. Ability to meet the needs of its multiple businesses from multiple locations around the world, willingness to integrate with its new-product development process, activity in support of lean supply-chain initiatives and senior-management involvement.
KC Aluminum and Stainless Service Center
Orders New Multiblanking Line
Friday, October 24, 2008
Ken-Mac Metals, a division of ThyssenKrupp Materials NA, Inc., has ordered a precision multiblanking line from Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, IL. The new line will process stainless steel, aluminum and prepainted materials at the Ken-Mac service center in Kansas City, MO. It will include the Red Bud precision grip-feed system and a CNC programmable slitter, and will produce blanks with width and length tolerances of plus or minus 0.005 in. An automatic strip-divider positioning system will automatically set up the dividers in the strip stacker as the operator sets up the slitting head.
Ken-Mac will employ the line to process coils weighing as much as 50,000 lb. at widths to 72 in and in sheet thickness to 0.135 in. Learn more about Red Bud multiblanking lines at
www.redbudindustries.com. To read up on Ken-Mac’s capabilities, surf to
www.kenmacmetals.com.
