Heavy-duty and gasless centerfire parts.
Bernard's Heavy-duty and gasless Centerfire components are designed for heavy equipment manufacturing operations. The nozzles feature thicker walls, a heat-resistant insulating material and a removable nozzle cone. They are well-suited to applications using mixed gases, spray transfer processes or thick aluminum welding. Gasless Centerfire parts allow operators to easily...

Minimizing cost and time in offshore sourcing: when developing an offshore strategy, key elements can make the difference between success and failure.
Offshore outsourcing can provide a strong competitive edge or be a source of hidden costs. What drives the difference between the two is normally a combination of the experience of the OEM's team and the quality of the offshore supply base. Singapore's electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and precision engineering...

SMC expands its East Coast presence with Innovend acquisition.
SMC Ltd, a Somerset, WI-based provider of design, molding and contract manufacturing services, has acquired Innovend, a Leominster, MA-based contract manufacturing and custom injection molder of high-volume plastic parts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The purchase of Innovend, an ISO-certified facility, is the latest in...

Radically improving output capability: freeing-up encumbered capacity.
Like most enterprises that make products, manufacturers of medical devices and equipment are asset intensive: Major sums of capital are invested in physical plants, property and equipment, manufacturing processes and inventory. As products become more sophisticated and complicated, the processes used to manufacture them become more capital intensive. Either...

Millennia group hires sales/marketing VP.
Tip Turpin has joined The Millennia Group, Inc., a Pittsburgh, PA-based electronics manufacturing service provider, as its vice president, sales/marketing. With more than 30 years' experience working for organizations that produce high-tech electronics, Turpin most recently spent nine years as vice president of business development for the...

Symmetry announces $6.2m upgrade project.
Another 60 jobs are coming to Warsaw, IN, as Symmetry Medical Inc. executes a $6.2 million upgrade to its operations there. The company announced plans to remodel and add equipment at its manufacturing plants in Warsaw and Claypool, as well as add a design and development center...

Steady as she goes: Latin America's medical device sector is keeping pace with increasing demand from the United States, Europe and Asia.
One thing is a sure bet--as baby boomers in highly developed regions such as North America, Europe and Asia get older, the demand for medical devices will continue to rise. Even though the United States remains one of the world's leading manufacturing hubs of medical devices, more American companies...

Corning opens liquid crystal display glass plant in China.
Corning China has opened manufacturing facility in the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area, China, to make thin-film transistor (TFT) glass for liquid crystal displays (LCDs). The plant is the company's first TFT-LCD glass production facility in China. The opening continues Corning's trend of entering an LCD-producing region...

Advanced Bionics must pay penalty to US Food and Drug Administration.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking a US$2.2 million penalty against Advanced Bionics LLC and its President and co-Chief Executive Jeffrey Greiner. The company, based in Sylmar, California, manufactures hearing aids. The FDA is pursuing it for violations of US federal law, including manufacturing...

Big, big business; Orange company top choice for water project.
COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION At a time when many observers are bemoaning the decline of the manufacturing industry here and across in the United States, Rodney Hunt Co. in Orange has just sent the first of two huge, 14-foot-in-diameter valves on a long, circuitous trip to Dallas,...