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Business Notes
Bermo Launches QOTE Onsite Quotation Services
Bermo Inc., a Minneapolis, MN, manufacturer specializing in metal fabricating, stamping, welding and assembly, has launched Quoting On-Site to Excel (QOTE), a value-added serv- ice that provides customers with prices at their locations, thus reducing customers’ quoting cycles. With the services, cus- tomers have direct, uninterrupted access to Bermo’s estima- tors for onsite pricing as well as closer proximity to designer counterparts. Check it out at www.bermo.com.
Facilities
and spot welders; weld guns, feeders and controls with con- sumables; and spare parts.
New Cut-to-Length Line at RC Trailer
Coe Press Equipment has designed, shipped and installed a CTLMaster cut-to- length line with film-applicator station at RC Trailer, Middle- bury, IN, to help manufacture aluminum trailers. The 54-in.- wide line is comprised of a standard, motorized coil reel and servo roll feed with the special film-applicator station as well as a pull-through straightener with nonmarking chrome finish rolls, and elec- tro-mechanical shear and hydraulic scissor-lift table.
People
Blue Blade Steel, a harden and temper mill based in Kenilworth, NJ, has promoted Jeremiah Shaw Jr. to vice president of sales and admin- istration. He had been the company’s business develop- ment manager.
Awards
Oberg’s Chambers Earns NTMA Training Award
of the Precision Machining Competition at the annual Skills USA National Leadership and Skills conferences for the past decade and spends much of his free time involved with community affairs including his participation as a recruit- ment liaison and guest speak- er with many high schools, col- leges, universities and business organizations in Western Pennsylvania and throughout the United States.
Agreements
“RC Trailer produces a vari- ety of trailer styles requiring blanks in many different sizes,” says Steve Donnay, Coe’s director of sales and marketing. “By having this new blanking line inhouse, it can better control its opera- tions, and reduce inventory and processing costs.”
Stewart EFI, LLC has added Ryan D. Ulizio as manufactur- ing engineer, and Dalton J. Bassett and Geri Gonxhere as design engineers. The com- pany, with more than 200 employees and operations in Thomaston, CT, and El Paso, TX, supplies small, precision metal stampings. Capabilities include deep-drawn, progres- sive-die and slide-formed stampings, wire forms, and automated and secondary assembly as well as plating and metal finishing.
At its recent Fall Confer- ence, the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) awarded Greg Chambers, environmental, health and safety manager and 33-year employee of Oberg Industries, with its William E. Hardman Award for Excellence in Training. This award is reserved for an individual or member company who has demonstrated consis- tently strong support and active participation in structured training for the precision cus- tom-manufacturing industry.
Lantek to Partner with Bystronic
on MES System
The line can process 40,000-psi aluminum coil from 0.030 to 0.040 in. thick, and produce blanks from 57 to102in.longand24to49 in. wide. In addition to the equipment, Coe provided installation, startup services and training.
Pferd Inc., Milwaukee, WI, a manufacturer and distributor of abrasives, brushes and power tools, has announced the appointment of Tim Lee to the position of technical sales specialist-Steel Works.
Oberg Industries is a man- ufacturer of precision compo- nents, headquartered in Freeport, PA. Chambers has overseen Oberg’s apprentice program as well as the health and safety of Oberg’s employ- ees, but he has also been instrumental in promoting manufacturing as a success- ful career choice among youth both locally and nationally. Chambers served as past president of the National Insti- tute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS) as well as the past president of the American Apprenticeship Roundtable.
Bystronic, provider of sheetmetal processing sys- tems and services, has agreed to a long-term partner- ship where Lantek will provide Bystronic with manufacturing- management software sys- tems and consultancy expert- ise. Lantek develops and supplies software systems for production of sheetmetal, tube and profile parts.
Dengensha Opens Cinci Customer-Service Center
MFG.com, an online manu- facturing marketplace, has hired Allan Sweatt as its vice president of product strategy. He will focus on the firm’s glob- al online manufacturing mar- ketplace and develop enhancements designed to improve members’ experiences, increase their returns on investment (ROI) and help them discover new revenue streams. MFG.com enables sourcing professionals and engineers to locate manufacturers for CNC machining, injection molding, metal stamping, metal fabrica- tion and many other processes.
He also has been a leader
Dengensha America, based in Bedford, OH, offers automotive, agricultural and general manufacturers a resistance-welding product line that includes projection
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The aim is for the compa- nies to collaborate in devel- oping a manufacturing-exe- cution system (MES) to be seamlessly integrated with Bystronic’s machine systems and software.
Dengensha America recently opened a customer- service office in Cincinnati, OH, primarily to provide more timely response for resist- ance-welding customers in the company’s southern territory.