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Taking pride in Australian-made aluminium

Manufacturer's Monthly

Image: Capral FIN Windows & Doors partners with Capral Aluminium to source Australian-made components, ensuring high-quality custom windows and doors for Newcastle, Central Coast, and Hunter Valley customers. Not only is it locally sourced, but it also helps us reduce our carbon footprint in production.”

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Embracing Automation: Strategies for Small to Medium-Sized Machine Shops

Modern Machine Shop

Source: MetalQuest From the earliest days of automation at IMTS featuring a robot hand moving parts, there has been a massive evolution in technology. Source: AMT. Source: AMT. Source: Incodema3D “We can do several setups in advance creating major efficiencies. “What is the definition of automation?”

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Can U.S. Manufacturing Beat Trade Volatility? Lessons from Tormach's Global Strategy

Modern Machine Shop

With tariffs and trade wars again making headlines, a few numbers from the recent past are worth revisiting: The 2018 tariffs, including the Section 301 duties on Chinese goods, raised $233 billion in U.S. Then there’s the open-source backbone of the company. But Tormach didn’t sit still. reindustrialization.

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Assessing The Rising Input Costs Associated With The Global Pandemic

Donlouco

There is no doubt that there has been an upward trend on metal prices for some time now initially for copper and aluminium driven by the demand for EV’s globally, but this trend has accelerated hugely in recent times and migrated into the steel industry also. Fig 1: Source : Trading Economics. Fig 2: Source : Financial Times.

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ABB to Invest $280 million in Its European Robotics hub in Sweden

Fabricating & Metal Work

When the campus is completed, ABB will have invested $450 million in its three robotics facilities since 2018, including its mega factory in Shanghai that supplies customers in Asia and the Auburn Hills facility that supports the Americas. This is a great time to invest in robotics and automation.

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Norm Fasteners Celebrating 50 Years & Three Generations

Fastener News Desk

While multi-sourcing and intensifying cooperation with our suppliers and customers all over the world, we concentrated our focus on emergency response scenarios, business sustainability management, preparation of quality and performance improvement programs for suppliers, and increasing the level of automation based operations.

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Manufacturing PMI® at 52.8%; July 2022 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

Fastener News Desk

New Orders and Employment Contracting; Production and Backlogs Growing; Supplier Deliveries Slowing at a Slower Rate; Raw Materials Inventories Growing; Customers’ Inventories Too Low; Prices Increasing at a Slower Rate; Exports and Imports Growing; Record-Long Lead Times for Production Materials and MRO Supplies.