Hot Off the Press
Coil-Processing Equipment Provider
Forms Wind-Energy Business Unit
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Automatic Feed Co., Napoleon, OH, a supplier of high-speed coil-processing equipment, has formed a new business unit--AFCo Precision Manufacturing—to align its engineering, manufacturing and quality operating systems to serve the needs of the wind-energy industry. The company expects to become a reliable supplier of fabricated and machine components, and special machined details. The new business unit recently joined the Great Lakes Wind Network;
www.glwn.org.
Kentucky to Welcome New Facility
to Clean and Rustproof Metal Stampings
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Transportation Management Systems, LLC, Elizabethtown, KY, and its automotive-services company TMS Automotive, have leased a 32,000-sq.-ft. facility in Bowling Green, KY, to offer an array of services to the metalforming industry--parts washing, rust-inhibitor applications, parts sorting, packaging, warehousing and distribution, and more. It expects to open the location—now being renovated—and to hire 35 employees by the end of June. Learn more at
www.transportationsystems.org/tmsautomotive.asp.
Industrial Metal Supply Opens West Coast Storefront
Monday, May 11, 2009
The Irvine, CA, branch of Industrial Metal Supply Co. (IMS) is being reconfigured as the company’s first full-service storefront facility. The new distribution model, it says, improves its ability to deliver services to a wider geographical area. Customers can receive next-day delivery or, if they need products sooner, can arrange for pickup as quickly as 2 hr. after placing an order. IMS stocks steel, aluminum, stainless steel, tool steel and other materials in sheet, plate, bar, tubing and shapes;
www.industrialmetalsupply.com.