FADIS celebrates 56 years as a world leader in the production of technology for the textile industry. The company was founded in 1960 with the purpose of manufacturing machines such as rewinders, soft winders, assembly winders, hank to cone winders, reeling machines, spooling machines and intermingling machines, which are meant to process all types of yarns such as cotton, wool, silk, artificial…
SACMI is a world’s leading manufacturer of machines and complete turnkey plants for various industrial fields ranging from ceramic tiles, sanitary-ware, tableware, extruded products up to metal and powder metal forming.
With over 15,000 presses operational worldwide and a range that spans from 30 to 25,000 tons, SACMI's fully automatic hydraulic presses are technologically advanced yet simple,…
Linamar Corp., la multinazionale automotive canadese e GF Automotive hanno annunciato la costruzione di un impianto di pressofusione per l’alluminio a Mills River, Henderson County, in North Carolina.Lo stabilimento, che dovrebbe essere ultimato a metà 2017, produrrà pressofusi in alluminio leggero, di grandi dimensioni per sistemi di trasmissione e componenti strutturali destinati al mercato…
Mexican glass industry giant Vitro is preparing to invest $85 million (€76 million) to build a new glass fusing furnace and expand its flat glass panel production lines to meet growing demand from the automotive and construction sectors. The new furnace will go into production in 2017.
The legalization of cannabis has opened up new business opportunities. In California alone, legal cannabis sales exceeded $1 billion last year ($1.1 billion to be precise), according to a recent CBS News study. Currently, with the legalization of cannabis for medicinal purposes in 23 states and the District of Columbia, entrepreneurs and companies are sniffing out business. Such is the case, for…
Stratasys Direct Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Stratasys, a leading 3D printing company, recently released a report on the impact of 3D printing on the manufacturing industry. The paper is based on a survey of , engineers and managers working in advanced companies ("advanced manufacturing"), 40 percent of whom are employed by companies with more than $50 million in revenue. For this reason,…
"Reshoring" (i.e., relocation, the reverse process of offshoring) allows companies to take advantage of available incentives, use skilled labor and do innovation while protecting intellectual property. For some companies, being able to use gas at very low costs makes the United States far more "cost effective" than other countries where electricity and coal costs are considerably higher.…
The U.S. group announced that it plans to install new cookie production lines at its Salinas plant in the northern state of New Leon. The food giant plans to decommission the nine lines at the outdated Chicago plant with four innovative lines at the Mexican plant. The project requires an investment of $130 million (€107 billion). Mondelez has already invested $600 million (€536 million) in recent…
Bosal has announced a manufacturing investment in Mexico; the Belgian group is reportedly planning to build a plant in Arteaga, in the northern state of Cohauila, for the production of emission and exhaust control components and systems. The project, which costs 528 million pesos (€ 28 million), is expected to create 180 new jobs. Bosal controls a worldwide network of 34 factories, 18…
According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2014, out of a total of 13,104 home furnishings and furniture companies, California was the state with the most (1,428), followed by Florida (1,073), New York (691), Texas (665), North Carolina (643), Illinois (549), Ohio (499), Pennsylvania (471), Indiana (386) and Virginia (343).
Delving deeper into the analysis of the available…