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Awards
Stamper Earns Energy- Conservation Award for Laser-Welding Cell
The sheetmetal stamping and welding facility of Ogi- hara America Corp., Howell, MI, won the 2010 Energy Saving Commercial Project of the Year from DTE Energy and The Engineering Socie- ty of Detroit. The award rec- ognizes a company that’s made the most effective contribution to reducing energy by implementing a significant new-technology or new-equipment project.
Ogihara’s award-winning project: implementation of a laser-welding cell to fabri- cate a two-piece automo- tive-door assembly, reduc- ing energy consumption by 94 percent compared to the traditional resistance-weld- ing process.
D&S Recognized for
its Business-Education
Partnership
Metal fabricator D&S Manufacturing, Black River Falls, WI, received the Wis- consin State Superinten- dent’s Business Friends of Education Award, recogniz- ing its support of local tech- nical-education programs. D&S has purchased welding equipment and annually provides welding gases and wire to the local high-school welding program; assisted in the purchase of laser-cut- ting equipment for the mid- dle school; and provides steel for student projects.
D&S employees also work directly with technical- education teachers to pro- vide instruction in math,
basic machining and weld- ing. Further, the company supports the First Lego League hands-on program designed to teach science and technology to children ages 9 to 14, and provides scholarships for the Steps for Girls summer program.
Honda Presents
MRO Supplier
of the Year Awards
Twelve companies earned Suppliers of the Year awards from Honda for performance excellence for providing quality maintenance and repair products and servic- es. Among the winners: Fuchs Lubricants, Harvey, IL, in the plant process materials category (lubri- cants); DuPont Co., Wilm- ington, DE, in the OEM materials category (paints and coatings); and Rose- wood Machine & Tool, Rose- wood, OH, in the precision measurement category (fab- rications, made-to-print parts, gauges, etc.).
Associations
Plex CEO Symonds
Named to
Association Board
Mark Symonds, CEO and president of manufacturing- ERP software provider Plex Systems, Inc., Auburn Hills, MI, has been elected to the board of directors of the Soft- ware & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Software Division. Symonds will help the board develop and priori- tize the division’s initiatives and determine projects, activities and events to be undertaken by SIIA.
Facilities
Delta Industrial Facility Up and Running
in Kentucky
Machine and press-foun- dation design and construc- tion specialist Delta Indus- trial, Chesterfield, MI, has opened its third regional facility in Fort Thomas, KY, and added sales representa- tive Chris Gray to its staff to run the regional office. The firm also offers concrete flatwork and steel fabrica- tion services.
Ugandan Metal-Building
Manufacturer Installs
72-in. Slitter
Braner/Loopco, Schiller Park, IL, shipped a 60,000- lb. by 72-in. by 1⁄4-in. preci- sion coil-slitting line to Roofings LTD in Kampala, Uganda. The line, rated to 1000 ft./min., features a turret-head slitter with two 9- by 72-in. quick-change heads, and variable strip tensioning; 450 hp is avail- able for recoiling straight- wall tight coils. Roofings LTD manufactures metal building products.
Canadian Service Center
to Add New Red Bud Line
As part of a major, ongo- ing expansion effort, Janco Steel Limited, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, has ordered a Red Bud Industries com- bination stretcher leveler and multiblanking line, with blanking capacity to 0.188 in. thick and edge-trim and leveling capacity to 0.25 in. Width and length tolerances are ±0.005 in. The adjustable nonmarking stretcher level- er will produce extremely
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