David Brown Santasalo continues its commitment to enhancing its facilities and services to customers. Construction has recently been completed on the expansion of the Antofagasta Service Center in Chile. The expansion includes an additional...
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) can improve industrial productivity by 50 to 70 percent but require adequate room to move about increasingly space-constrained factory floors. The more functionality AGV designers can pack into a small footp...
Blue OriginandSierra Spacehave announced plans forOrbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station to be built in low Earth orbit. They hope the station will open the next chapter of human space exploration and deve...
A past president and 25-year PTDA Foundation Trustee, Bob Callahan (formerly SENQCIA MAXCO LLC) was passionate about the mission of the PTDA Foundation. Bob passed away in early 2021 and, in recognition of his commitment to the advancement...
Rodney Brennen, vice president/CFO, Metco Industries, Inc., St. Marys, Pennsylvania, has been elected the 31st president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), succeeding Dean Howard, PMT, North American Höganäs Co., a subsidia...
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)’s investment in a million-dollar hypersonic wind tunnel is returning results with another innovative research opportunity. Christopher Combs, Dee Howard Endowed Assistant Professor of Mechanical E...
ETEL introduces two new short stroke actuators specifically for use as a unique solution for “Test and Scan” turret handlers in semiconductor manufacturing. Available in North America through parent company Heidenhain, the TUCANA ST and...
The Koch offices in Dallas and Houston, Texas, will gradually become Methods’ facilities. Sudbury, Massachusetts-basedMethods Machine Tools Inc. has reached an agreement to acquireKoch Machine Tool, a machine tool dealer and Methods avenu...
The Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA)Foundation announced that the inaugural recipient of the Robert K. Callahan Future Leaders Award is Chris Gumas of Ruland Manufacturing Co., Inc. A past president and 25-year PTDA Founda...
Wendy B. McDonald was one of the power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) industry’s true pioneers. To honor her memory, in 2014, the PTDA Foundation established the Wendy B. McDonald Award. It recognizes a woman who has established hers...