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bution of mobile food carts and trailers. Modular con- struction of the firm’s carts allows users to select the equipment layout tailored to their specific needs. The sub- sidiary has its own manufac- turing facility next to Airtron- ics’ 100,000-sq.-ft. plant. Airtronics provides Metal Gourmet with custom-made trailer frames, sinks, griddles and other components.
New Stretcher-Leveler
Tasked with Tackling
Springback
JDM Steel Service, Chica- go Heights, IL, has ordered a 0.500- by 72-in. stretcher-lev- eler from Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, IL. The service cen- ter provides hot-rolled sheet and coil and performs pick- ling and oiling, shearing and slitting.
Beckwood Press
Implements
New ERP System
Hydraulic-press manufac- turer Beckwood Press Co., St. Louis, MO, has imple- mented a new enterprise- resource-planning (ERP) sys- tem designed to provide its customers with access to manufacturing schedules, and the ability to order spare and replacement components on-demand. Also accessible are Gantt charts to document the manufacturing process in real time, and manuals, approval drawings and com- ponent documentation.
Awards
Shoptech Makes
Inc. Magazine’s
Top 5000 List, Again
For the fifth consecutive year, Inc. magazine has
added Shoptech Software, Glastonbury, CT, to its list of the 5000 fastest-growing companies in the United States. The firm provides its E2 shop-management soft- ware to small to midsized manufacturing companies.
Fabrication of Water- Treatment Systems Earns D&S a Supplier
Excellence Award
D&S Manufacturing, Black River Falls, WI, has earned its second supplier excel- lence award from Parkson Corp., a manufacturer of water-treatment systems. D&S fabricates the systems and ships directly to loca- tions throughout the world, and also fabricates and next- day ships replacement parts. Its capabilities include oxyfu- el, high-definition plasma and laser cutting, as well as man- ual and robotic welding.
Associations
American Steel
Coalition Back
in Business
A group of companies and individuals has joined forces to reactivate the American Steel Coalition (ASC), Wash- ington, D.C., a grassroots alliance of suppliers, cus- tomers and others who sup- port the domestic steel industry.
ASC chairman Michael Romano, an executive with Nalco Co., says that the coalition will support “strong, pro-manufacturing policies to encourage major industries to stay in America and to cre- ate the millions of jobs need- ed to restore the economy.” Learn more at www.theameri- cansteelcoalition.org.
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