Claire Suttles

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November 2022 / 2022 / Current

Doing the Right Thing

Written by Claire Suttles

Technology-enabled field services company Bell and Howell services a wide range of automation equipment for multiple original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and markets across North America. We spoke to the company a year ago, reporting on how the Durham, North Carolina-based business helps customers increase efficiency and reduce operational costs through its comprehensive solutions in retail, grocery, pharmacy click-and-collect, automation, and production mail. This month, we sat down with senior executive and grocery commerce expert James Hermanowski to learn more about the company’s work to fight food insecurity through food bank technology.

October 2022 / 2022 / Engineering & Design

Advancing Automation

Invotec

Written by Claire Suttles

Invotec develops and automates manufacturing systems and solutions. Last year, Manufacturing in Focus profiled the company’s impact on the medical device industry. This month, we are checking back in to hear about the latest advances this company is developing.

October 2022 / 2022 / Fabrication & Machining

Making Its Mark

Gravotech

Written by Claire Suttles

Gravotech is built upon a rich history of engraving. The company’s story began in 1938, in New York City under the name New Hermes, when a small team began producing advanced pantographs that enabled typographic consistencies within dies. A merger with French company Gravograph several years later launched a series of joint ventures, setting the business on a path to eventually become the international leader in permanent markings.

August 2022 / 2022 / Engineering & Design

American Made

Omega TMM

Written by Claire Suttles

Omega TMM is the only company in the tool presetter market to offer manufacturing, assembly, sales, and support within the United States. While the competition is importing products from China, this Fairport, New York-based company is doing the opposite…

2022 / July 2022

Putting Customers First for over Forty Years

Atlas Machining & Welding Inc.

Written by Claire Suttles

Atlas Machining & Welding Inc. got its start in 1981 after the cement company that Harold Keeney worked for shut down. Rather than succumbing to discouragement, the experienced machinist saw the situation as an opportunity to venture out on his own. He and his wife Pat gathered their resources and launched a company primarily focused on making parts for the cement industry.

May 2022 / Electronics & Components

Merging Talent and Technology

MultiCam

Written by Claire Suttles

After profiling MultiCam in May 2021, Business in Focus has circled back to hear what has happened over the ensuing year. As it turns out, the company has big news, from an exciting change in ownership to innovative new products, so this update is not to be missed.

December 2021 / In Focus / 2021

Connecting Us to the Future

Arshon Technology

Written by Claire Suttles

Arshon Technology provides cost-effective electronic design services to customers in a wide range of industries around the world. As an end-to-end provider, this Ontario-based business handles everything from prototype design, testing, and validation all the way through to commercialization and mass production.

November 2021 / 2021 / Fabrication & Machining

A Complete Solution

A+ Group

Written by Claire Suttles

A+ Group has been providing manufacturers with plastic and metal hardware for a quarter of a century. Armed with an extensive inventory and multiple distribution centers, the Marlboro, New Jersey-based business represents some of the world’s leading manufacturers including Fidlock, Bodypoint, Systemmag, Trimmers, and Winhigh, in addition to supplying a standard hardware line.

September 2021 / 2021 / Automation

A Next-Generation Service Organization

Bell and Howell

Written by Claire Suttles

As a next-generation service organization, Bell and Howell has been investing in the tools, technology, and training needed to help customers increase efficiency and reduce operational costs.

September 2021 / 2021

Forward-Thinking Engineering

Zemarc Corporation

Written by Claire Suttles

Zeke Zahid founded Zemarc Corporation in 1976 with a vision to bring only the best value-added products, services, and solutions to the fluid power market. Over the decades, the Los Angeles-based business has grown to become a global leader in industrial distribution, with branch offices throughout California and more than fifty employees with a combined 150 years’ experience in the fluid power and motion control industry.