Big Elk Energy Systems
An Oklahoma sun reflects off the rooftops of giant facilities. Inside, sparks fly as massive machinery is designed and fabricated to be shipped across the country. Big Elk is a much-awarded explosively-growing company that is making the pipeline industry sit up very sharply.
MBL Corporation
Motors are all around us, hidden in machines in our homes, streets, farms, and workplaces. They are things we do not notice until the day they stop working, and one of the most important components of your motor is the chain or belt that is running it.
Talan Products
Manufacturing was once America’s backbone. Rows of machines and workers – an American achievement that ruled the world. That was then. Now Talan Products is one of the rare manufacturing companies that still provides quality jobs to Americans, yet makes products at competitive prices.
MGL Engineering
If you are in the material handling industry, your business lives and dies by the performance of its machines. Nowadays, companies are asking for leaner, better machines that can be modified to adapt to changing environments, and MGL Engineering of Lakeland, Florida can do just that.
Adding a small, five-gallon bucket to your workplace can change the world in more ways than you can imagine. Just ask Metallic Resources – headquartered in Twinsburg, Ohio, with operations in Mexico and China. For forty years, it has been recycling solder dross consisting of tin, lead and other materials through an electrolytic refining process to generate solder products more pure than supposed “virgin grade.”
Avid International Molding Solutions
Your boss puts you in charge of finding a high quality yet low priced, durable but flexible, reliable plastic part. It must simultaneously have the highest possible standards and an affordable price. He’s asking for the impossible.
Or is he?
Cincinnati Gasket and Industrial Glass
Windows in homes have traditionally been built to withstand rain, snow, sleet, and maybe even a hurricane. But none were typically built to withstand chemicals, molten lava, or extremely cold temperatures. Yet for Cincinnati Gasket and Industrial Glass, manufacturing windows that tough is a daily occurrence.
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Michelin North America
Since 1891, when Michelin brothers Édouard and André, who ran a rubber factory in Clermont-Ferrand, France, applied for their first patent for an easy-to-remove pneumatic bicycle tire that lent itself to quick repairs, Michelin has been revolutionizing the tire industry.
Specific Mechanical Systems
Specific Mechanical Systems Ltd., a Victoria, British Columbia-based company that designs, manufactures, and installs brewing and distilling equipment, has expanded its automation processes and market reach since it was profiled in November 2022 in Business in Focus magazine. In the face of significant technical challenges, the company has automated its already innovative distillation system.
Champ Industries
In just a few years, Champ Industries has seen a great deal of change come its way thanks to changes within and outside its walls. It currently has locations in Canada and the U.S., in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Jamestown, North Dakota respectively, and is doing better than ever with a renewed focus.
John W. McDougall Co.
One can tell a lot about a company by the company it keeps. When vendors become customers and customers become vendors, as they do at John W. McDougall Co. Inc., it demonstrates that premium solutions and customer satisfaction are paramount here. The processing division of John W. McDougall Co. Inc. is home to in-depth fabrication expertise which has customers, from across the United States and further afield, returning for more.
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC)
The Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) provides a depth and breadth of services, programs, and opportunities for manufacturers. Headquartered in Owen Sound, Ontario, with a national presence, EMC also encourages young people to enter the manufacturing workforce and is always looking for ways to enhance the sector.
