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The largest supplier of quality bunk beds in the United Kingdom, Strictly Beds and Bunks ensures implementation of planet-friendly manufacturing and business policies.

In a reversal of recent trends, U.S. contract manufacturing companies are beginning to win back business that had gone to German firms.

Finding a reliable custom metal fabricator in Georgia or other machining, fabrication or custom manufacturing specialists is now an easy process according MFGpartners.net, an interactive marketplace for small plastic parts (http://mfgpartners.net/small-plastic-parts), machined metal parts & components and other made-to-print products. Today, the company announced its Peach State campaign to connect local establishments with suitable manufacturers as parts of its nationwide Buy American movement pioneered by its parent company and quality management system innovator the Industrial Leaders Group.

SMT was recently profiled in SentinelandEnterprise.com by Alana Melanson. The journalist authored a feature titled, Experts: Training, education can boost local manufacturing, and noted in honor of National Manufacturing Day, the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce invited local educational institutes and industry leaders to speak about the work they are doing together to further manufacturing and create skilled workers for the field.

Vapor Jackets is a Florida based company, that manufactures electronic cigarette skins, otherwise known as electronic cigarette wraps. Currently we see the majority of our traffic coming from customers that have the White Cloud brand, which we attribute to pricing sensitivity among consumers and potential consumers.

While some think that Engineer to Order (ETO) manufacturing organizations are at full capacity, the reality is significant available capacity is wasted due to coordination mistakes. The amount of lost capacity is close to 50%. “Recovering the loss of coordination between functions is the major opportunity in these organizations. It appears as delays, expediting, and frequent meetings to recover from these delays. The delays make it even more difficult to manage; the work doesn’t appear when the resources are planned on being available, so this capacity is lost. When delays are recovered, and work does appear, the resources must react to shorter timeframes to accomplish their tasks,” according to Mark Woeppel, CEO of Pinnacle Strategies.

Pexa, the specialist supplier of surface finishing materials to the aerospace, defence, electronics and energy markets is moving its location in France.

Wohl Associates, a leading dealer in used processing and packaging machinery, announces the extension of their lines of quality pre-owned machinery with the addition of Stainless Steel Tanks, stainless steel fryers, tablet packaging equipment and many other sought after pieces of manufacting equipment.

The skills shortage grows each year and margin pressures mount for the manufacturing industry, making the right hiring decision more critical now, than ever before. Scientific Management Techniques (SMT) uses hands-on portable assessment machines which utilize non-written, non-verbal, task-oriented methodologies. The industrial skills assessment machines identify the most skilled, capable, and trainable candidates.

Custom fabricated parts and products made in Delaware becomes the latest movement for the American Machine Shops Network (AMSN)

Seegrid was featured in a DC Velocity webcast. The topic of the webcast was…“Driverless” forklifts: efficiency booster or gimmick? This webcast discussed the benefits of using vision-guided robots over AGVs.

AMSN, the most popular US-focused custom fabrication & manufacturing marketplace online today is bringing its Quality Manufacturing Movement (QMM) to Florida as parts of its nationwide campaign to support steel fabrications (http://mfgpartners.net/steel-fabricators), machine shops, foundries, molders and other manufacturers. The company said businesses all over the Sunshine State are welcoming the QMM concept as a foundation to support its 'Buy American' grassroots campaign pioneered by Donald LaBelle, founder of the American Machine Shops Network and CEO of IndustrialLeaders.com

Sterilization pouches play a critical role in ensuring that all equipment and instruments used in the medical, dental, health and other clinics are safe and clean. While often overlooked by patients, practitioners are required to use such pouches on which to conveniently store their apparatuses and keep them free from bacteria and viruses. While so, it is not enough to merely have a sterilization pouch in the clinic, simply because not all such products are created equal: not all of them meet enforced industry standards.

EMX Industries, Inc., produces innovative color sensors which provide manufacturers across a wide range of industries the utmost in quality, consistency and control. This includes their industry-leading Color-Max 1000 series, as well as the ColorMax VIEW for translucent color verification.

Custom metal fabricating is a service required by a wide range of industries and finding a suitable vendor can often be a job in itself, according to AMSN, an online metalworking and precision CNC machining marketplace at http://mfgpartners.net/precision-cnc-machining Tuesday morning the company introduced a number of machine/job shops in Connecticut approved by its staff capable of providing complete sheet metal work, plastic & metal parts, custom metal fabrication, welding, shearing, laser cutting and other manufacturing solutions.

Scientific Management Techniques is the global leader in performance-based skill assessments for industry. The assessment capabilities, together with demand-driven skills training program, are used in manufacturing and education organizations in thirty-one countries to solve the skills shortage and drive industrial productivity.

Motion Industries is a distributor of industrial MRO (maintenance, repair, and operation replacement) parts. They have access to more than 4.3 million parts through 501 locations and over 1,550 sales representatives dedicated to product application and technical support services. The company announced the availability of Lift’n Buddy, by Ergologistics in the Fall-2012 Motion Industries’ MRO catalog.

An integrated moving lifting solution built for everyday use in most warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and route-based delivery systems is the Edison Award-winning Lift’n Buddy.

Just as Broncos fans continue to support their local team, the same is happening among business owners all over Colorado taking notice of a grassroots movement pioneered by the American Machine Shops Network at MFGpartners.net The nationwide campaign, according to AMSN spokesperson Cidalia Gongalves is silently spreading across the manufacturing communities of Denver, Colorado Springs, Arvada, Pueblo, Aurora, Lakewood, Westminster, Boulder, Fort Collins and Thornton with emphasis on buying U.S. machined and/or fabricated products.

Rotacaster makes manual movement of loads safer, faster and easier. The most important message communicated by safety managers is the concern and need for workplace ergonomic improvements whenever and wherever possible. Especially when workers compensation, lost work days and insurance premiums can be reduced while improving productivity.

The Industrial Leaders Group (ILG) announced today its Board of Directors elected Jim Carbone, former President and owner of a major plastic distribution company in Bridgeport, Connecticut as the lead Evaluator/Consultant for G-PMC, LLC, the fastest growing registration company in the United States. Mr. Carbone, joins the company along with his son (Bob Carbone) who was recently selected as the new VP of Operations.

Innotech Products Inc (http://www.innotechprod.com) will be exhibiting at the Medical Design and Manufacturing Expo and will be available to discuss custom cleanroom solutions for industry specific applications.

Ampac, the world’s leader in creative flexible packaging, announces the addition of Pull Tab beverage pouch. The Pull Tab innovation is an alternative beverage pouch format to the traditional straw punch-through beverage pouch that is commonly used in the beverage market.

For those looking to improve workplace safety and to maximize Forklift utilization, load maps can help with both. Simply put, load maps give both capacity ratings at multiple lift heights and load centers. They are a “road map” to Forklift safety. Professional Forklift Engineering Services can help customers get their map online at LiftTruckCapacityCalculator.com.

Manufacturers and other businesses across California are in serious to regain lost revenues over the last several years due to the slow economy, and one company is making that happen, according to Raj Kapoor, spokesperson for the American Machine Shops Network, a national group of quality-approved precision machining companies at http://mfgpartners.net/precision-machining-companies Mr. Kapoor said manufacturing companies in the Golden State play a pivotal role to the country's all around industrial output and need more opportunities for growth and job creation.