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WorkSafeBC adds focus on slips, trips, and falls to its Manufacturing High Risk Strategy
- Mar 11, 2019
- News Release
WorkSafeBC has plans to focus on preventing slips, trips, and falls, a widespread cause of injuries with its 2019 high-risk strategy for manufacturing. Slips, trips, and falls are often not perceived as significant hazards, but they can easily lead to severe injuries. However, about a fifth of the...
Improve your processes with leased software
- By Ken Hurwitz
- Mar 6, 2019
- Blog Post
Leasing manufacturing software frees up cash flow for use elsewhere in the business.
With FCA investing in Michigan, many question future of Brampton facility
- Mar 4, 2019
- News Release
Last week, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) announced a US$4.5 billion investment in its Michigan plants. The automaker is set to build a new assembly plant in Detroit while adding production at its five current Michigan-based facilities, creating approximately 6,500 new jobs. The company says this...
Joint Open House features advanced technology, networking opportunity
- Mar 4, 2019
- News Release
Sourcing new shop floor equipment can be a daunting task. But thanks to the efforts of four Ontario-based machine tool builders and distributors, this process can be a little more streamlined. The 14th annual joint open house takes place at each location on April 10-11, 2019, between 9 a.m. and 6...
Look ahead by looking back
- By Joe Thompson
- Mar 1, 2019
- Blog Post
A popular cliché tells us that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This aphorism is attributed to Spanish-American philosopher and author George Santayana who wrote in his five-volume work, The Life of Reason, that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to...
MMP Expo heads to Winnipeg
- Feb 27, 2019
- News Release
The Metalworking Manufacturing & Production (MMP) Expo will return to Winnipeg on Wednesday, April 3. The free, one-day event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Victoria Inn Hotel & Convention Centre and is presented by Canadian Metalworking and Canadian Fabricating and Welding. “Our...
Forging ahead with advanced HDPE cooling towers at Patriot Forge
- By Ed Sullivan
- Feb 25, 2019
- Article
One of the benefits of these towers is the ability to configure them in combination of up to six units with cooling capacity from 250 to 2,500 cooling tons.
Bombardier invests $22 Million into two aerospace projects in Quebec
- Feb 25, 2019
- News Release
Bombardier, a Quebec-based transportation manufacturer, is supporting the aerospace industry in Canada by invest approx. $22 million in two Quebec-based projects. The investment will be distributed over a three-year period into two major aerospace research projects: Aéro21 and the third phase of...
CME launches Ontario-based manufacturing initiative
- Feb 20, 2019
- News Release
Industrie 2030, a new project by Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME), aims to create the business conditions in Ontario to support the doubling of manufacturing output to $600 billion by 2030. “Ontario manufacturers are at the forefront of global competition, innovation, and technological...
Financing turnkeys frees cash flow
- By Ken Hurwitz
- Feb 20, 2019
- Blog Post
Buying machinery and other equipment always is a difficult process financially. This gets even trickier with turnkey setups and the impact financing such a transaction has on a manufacturer’s cash flow. When I started in this industry in the early ’90s, I was working for my family importing...
Hexagon's HP-L-5.8 Fixed-Line blue laser scanning sensor creates point cloud measurements
- Feb 19, 2019
- Product Release
Hexagon introduces the HP-L-5.8 Fixed-Line blue laser scanning sensor for creating point clouds. The systems performs point cloud measurements from dark or shiny surfaces. Designed to be rugged and compact, it protects the sensor from collisions and vibrations and is suitable for use in areas...
Canadian Aerospace Summit celebrates industry leadership
- Feb 18, 2019
- News Release
The 2018 Canadian Aerospace Summit headlined a series of three aerospace events in November 2018. Along with the summit, aerospace industry leaders also attended the 2018 GARDN Conference, as well as the 2018 Transport Canada Delegates Conference. Hosted by the Aerospace Industries Association of...
The economy faces a bleak midwinter
- By Joe Thompson
- Feb 12, 2019
- Blog Post
Economic winter is coming. This is the warning from some economists. Sometime toward the end of 2019 or in early 2020, the talons of a worldwide economic slowdown will dig into the world’s economy. Pundits say that the U.S., Europe, and China, whose fiscal slowdown may already be starting as...
Bombardier shakes up senior leadership team
- Feb 11, 2019
- News Release
Bombardier, a Montreal-based aerospace and transportation manufacturer, is making changes to its senior leadership team. Danny Di Perna has been appointed president of bombardier transportation, effective immediately. Previously, Di Perna led Bombardier’s Aerostructures and Engineering Services...
Unifor Canada slams automaker in Super Bowl ad "GM leaves Canadians Out In the Cold”
- Feb 4, 2019
- News Release
Unifor is upping its new #SaveOshawaGM campaign by airing an ad during Super Bowl LIII on February 3. The commercial titled “GM leaves Canadians Out In the Cold” is a scathing rebuke of GM Canada's plans to close the Oshawa plant. The automaker attempted to stop the broadcast, sending a...
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