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Samuel division making PPE
Additive manufacturing company, Burloak Technologies, a division of Samuel, Son & Co. Ltd., will produce face shields for front-line medical and healthcare workers. This personal protective equipment was designed and tested in collaboration with Hamilton Health Sciences and Mohawk College. Production began in mid-April and will ramp up to 10,000 units per week. “Applying our capabilities in this battle is the right thing to do,” said Samuel President and CEO Colin Osborne. Burloak Technologies provides engineering and design services for additive manufacturing, materials development, high-precision CNC machining, post-processing and metrology.
Distributor goes paperless
Rolled Metal Products has eliminated paperwork at its locations in Alsip, Illinois; Bensalem, Pennsylvania; and Lebanon, Tennessee; with the warehouse implementation of Stratix software features such as online production planning, shop floor receipt of goods, online production scheduling, shopfloor production recording, wireless shopfloor functions, and online shipment planning.
Modernization continues at Blue Blade Steel
Blue Blade Steel, Kenilworth, New Jersey, installed phase 2 of its investment program, which includes Ebner SmartFlat technology. Ebner’s FlexFlat technology resolves distortion (concavity) through the width of the coil during production, “and the results have been incredible,” Blue Blade President Jerry Shaw says. The company is already breaking into new markets with the flatter products.
Venture Steel joins NASA
Venture Steel has joined the North American Steel Alliance, a purchasing cooperative. Based in Toronto, Venture Steel processes and distributes flat-rolled metal.
Processing operations consolidated
Worthington Specialty Processing, Columbus, Ohio, a joint venture between Worthington Industries Inc. and U.S. Steel Corp., will close its Canton, Michigan, facility by the end of May, but operations in Jackson and Taylor, Michigan, will stay open. WSP processes wide-sheet steel primarily for the auto industry. Canton has 91 employees and an estimated 66 positions will be impacted by the closure. WSP intends to sell the 195,000-square-foot processing center and the 250,000-square-foot distribution center located on Canton’s 30-acre property, as well as most of Canton’s fixed assets.
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UPM meets medical standards
United Performance Metals has been awarded ISO 13485:2016 certification from NSF-ISR. This allows UPM’s South Windsor, Connecticut, branch to provide both materials and processing services for the medical industry.