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Reuters.com
General Electric Co said it will move production of large, gas-powered engines to Canada from Wisconsin, along with 350 jobs, to access export financing no longer available in the United States.

Visit http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/28/us-usa-exim-ge-idUSKCN0RS1OU20150928 to view the full article online.

 
Industry Week
Boeing has reached deals with Chinese firms to sell 300 aircraft and set up a completion center in China.

Visit http://www.industryweek.com/transportation/boeing-sets-300-plane-order-plant-china to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing Business Technology
Companies need to embrace the digital era when it comes to the communication of safety hazards, guidelines, rules, regulations, warnings, goals, and progress reports by broadcasting them in an up-to-date and real-time manner across an array of mediums in and out of the workplace.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/articles/2015/09/workplace-safety-digital-age to view the full article online.

 
Machine Tool Builders
United Tool Supply
Gleason Corporation
Kapp Technologies
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Boeing has opened its research and technology center in South Carolina, which is devoted to current and next-generation technology development.

Visit http://www.onlineamd.com/article/boeing-opens-manufacturing-research-center-carolina-092515 to view the full article online.

 
Industry Week
A rocket-powered car unveiled in London could break the world land speed record, traveling at more than 1,000 miles per hour.

Visit http://www.industryweek.com/technology/supersonic-car-set-shatter-speed-records to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing.net
India successfully launched its first space observatory and six satellites into orbit, the latest step forward for a country looking to become a major player in the lucrative space market.

Visit http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2015/09/india-successfully-launches-its-first-space-observatory-0 to view the full article online.

 
SCOT FORGE
ArkLatex
The Manufacturing Institute announced that Bossier Parish Community is one of three community colleges that will receive support for training veterans in manufacturing programs.

Visit http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/bpcc-awarded-funding-for-veteran-training-in-manufacturing to view the full article online.

 
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Elbit Systems Ltd. has been awarded a contract worth approximately $70 million from a customer in Latin America for intelligence integrated systems for homeland security. Under the contract, Elbit Systems will provide the customer with Hermes 900 UAS systems and an intelligence gathering system in less than a year.

Visit http://www.onlineamd.com/article/embit-systems-uas-latin-america-092615 to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing Business Technology
The GE Foundation presented $100,000 in grant funding to Women in Manufacturing to bolster its regional and national programming.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/news/2015/09/women-manufacturing-receives-100000-ge-grant to view the full article online.

 
All Metals & Forge Group, LLC
Detroit Free Press
Volkswagen's admission it cheated on emissions testing of its "clean diesel" engines has sullied the automaker's reputation, disrupted the entire industry, and put diesel engines on trial in a country that was finally starting to embrace them.

Visit http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2015/09/26/vw-cheat-emissions-diesel-engine-fallout/72612616/ to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing.net
Royal Dutch Shell will stop drilling for oil and gas in Arctic waters off Alaska's coast following disappointing results from an exploratory well backed by billions in investment and years of work.

Visit http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2015/09/shell-abandons-controversial-arctic-drilling-project-off-alaskan-shore to view the full article online.

 
Science Alert
US-based clean energy startup Janulus has taken the wind turbine concept and shrunk it down to miniature proportions, resulting in the ‘Trinity’, a diminutive propeller-based generator that lets you make your own clean energy wherever you are.

Visit http://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-wind-turbines-let-you-harness-the-breeze-wherever-you-are to view the full article online.

 
Sandvik Cormant Co.
Specialty Ring Products
ALD-Holcroft Vacuum Technologies Co., Inc.
Manufacturing Business Technology
The Volvo Group is currently working on a joint venture with three universities and the waste recycling company Renova to develop a robot that interacts with a garbage truck and its driver to pick up your trash.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/videos/2015/09/manufacturing-minute-volvos-trash-collecting-robots to view the full article online.

 
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Ceremonies were held September 22, 2015, at the Lockheed Martin F-35 production facility celebrating the rollout of the first F-35A Lightning II for the Norwegian Armed Forces.

Visit http://www.onlineamd.com/article/rollout-norway-first-f35-lockheed-092315 to view the full article online.

 
Industry Week
Caterpillar announced a major cost-cutting program that could shutter more than 20 facilities and eliminate more than 10,000 jobs.

Visit http://www.industryweek.com/recruiting-retention/caterpillar-plans-close-plants-cut-10000-jobs to view the full article online.

 
Erwin Junker Machinery, Inc.
Manufacturing Business Technology
The Form 2 3D printer from Formlabs uses a powerful Blu-ray laser to slice layers of sticky resin into fully built, highly detailed objects.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/videos/2015/09/high-resolution-laser-drawn-resin-3d-printer to view the full article online.

 
This Week
Johnstown's Apeks Supercritical is hosting a Manufacturing Day on October 2 for students and the public. Student participants will have an opportunity to work hands-on with one manufacturing area of their choice — welding, pipe and tube fitting and bending, machining, and electrical controls assembly.

Visit http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/johnstown/news/2015/09/28/apeks-supercritical-students-others-can-get-hands-on-manufacturing-experience.html to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing Business Technology
This Engineering Newswire looks at launching 50 drones into the sky and shape-shifting with a new concept car from Mercedes.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/videos/2015/09/engineering-newswire-mercedes-shape-shifts-high-speeds to view the full article online.

 
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology
Rave Gears, LLC
GERB Vibration Control Systems, Inc.
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
NIMS has new funding in partnership with the National Network of Business and Industry Associations, an effort led by Business Roundtable and ACT Foundation, aimed at advancing skills, training, and talent development for the precision manufacturing industry.

Visit http://www.onlineamd.com/article/nims-awarded-funding-manufacturing-workforce-092615 to view the full article online.

 
Pilot Online
Larry Gaither shares an invention he first conceived more than 50 years ago — a more efficient, more potent rotary engine.

Visit http://hamptonroads.com/2015/09/nc-man-invents-little-engine-could-given-chance to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing Business Technology
Thunder Power says its concept car can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in less than five seconds and has a range of more than 400 miles on a full charge. Sales in Europe should begin in 2017 and in China the following year. Eventually, Thunder Power hopes to test the US market.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/videos/2015/09/manufacturing-minute-another-rival-tesla to view the full article online.

 
NJ.com
The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools is now offering a program in advanced manufacturing on its East Brunswick Campus. The new program, Pre-engineering and Manufacturing Technology, includes courses in mechanical technology, electronics, pneumatics, and hydraulics.

Visit http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/09/mcvts_expands_its_manufacturing_design_programs.html to view the full article online.

 
Cincinnati Gearing Systems Inc.
Modern Machine Shop
Rave Gears has embraced grinding technology to the extent that it’s grinding the spiral bevel gears it manufactures directly from a blank, taking it all the way to the finished product.

Visit http://www.mmsonline.com/blog/post/grinding-spiral-bevel-gears to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing Business Technology
Volvo has broken ground on its first auto manufacturing plant in North America and says workers at the $500 million plant will build a car still being designed in Sweden.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/news/2015/09/volvo-breaks-ground-500m-south-carolina-plant to view the full article online.

 
LVB.com
The Manufacturers Resource Center is helping to spearhead a new venture with young workers. Dubbed "The Pennsylvania Dream Team," this workforce initiative follows a group of young people who are employed in manufacturing jobs in the Greater Lehigh Valley and uses video shoots of their daily work life to shed light on what they do.

Visit http://www.lvb.com/article/20150928/LVB01/309249992/unleashing-a-dream-team-to-push-manufacturing-careers to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing Business Technology
Alcoa will split into two independent companies, separating its bauxite, aluminum, and casting operations from its engineering, transportation, and global rolled products businesses.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/news/2015/09/alcoa-splitting-2-companies to view the full article online.

 
Specialty Steel Treating, Inc.
The Wall Street Journal
Read up-to-the-minute news, analysis, interviews, and explanatory journalism on logistics, supply-chain management, e-commerce, and more.

Visit http://www.wsj.com/articles/todays-top-supply-chain-and-logistics-news-from-wsj-1443435164 to view the full article online.

 
KTRE
Two former longtime Lufkin Industries employees, Scott Franks and Albert Stokely, are in the process of building a 32,000-square-foot facility just outside the Lufkin city limits.

Visit http://www.ktre.com/story/29994673/former-lufkin-industries-workers-launch-new-gear-manufacturing-company to view the full article online.

 
WCPO Insider
More state support is in the works for local colleges and universities in Ohio looking to grow participation in their manufacturing programs to meet industry needs.

Visit http://www.wcpo.com/news/insider/manufacturings-not-the-dirty-job-many-think-it-is to view the full article online.

 
Star SU LLC.
Bourn & Koch Inc.
Naylor Association Solutions
 
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