De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. has started a phased return-to-work plan after it suspended manufacturing operations in March due to the pandemic. The company says 100 employees are back on the job. De Havilland Canada says it’s focused on resuming pre-flight activities and delivery of Dash 8-400 aircraft. The company suspend…
The global technology company Voith Group and Moog Inc., both developers, manufacturers and suppliers of electric, hydraulic and hybrid drive solutions, have signed the contracts to form the joint venture HMS – Hybrid Motion Solutions GmbH based in Rutesheim on April 29, 2020. The joint venture provides for a strategic partnership to exp
Sometimes MASTA models won’t run and users are tasked with the job of figuring out why. Join SMT for the fourth webinar of 2020. This webinar will look at troubleshooting the MASTA model. The SMT support team will address some of the modeling and analysis mistakes that cause these problems. The webinar takes place June 9, 2020 from
Bombardier Inc. says 11,000 furloughed employees will return to work across Canada over the next few weeks, primarily in Quebec where some 450,000 residents are expected to go back on the job as the province prepares to restart its economy. The plane-and-train maker said Tuesday it will resume production in Quebec as of May 11, the day set …
Stelco Holdings Inc. says it has entered into a long-term agreement with United States Steel Corp. to purchase iron ore pellets from the largest iron ore mine in the U.S. The eight-year replacement deal will supply all of Stelco’s anticipated iron ore pellet requirements at Lake Erie Works and expanded production from a blast furnace u…
Cameco Corp. says spot uranium prices are up amid the production disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The company says the uranium spot price has increased by more than 35 per cent since the company announced the first disruption at its Cigar Lake mine on March 23. The comment came as Cameco reported a first-quarter loss of $19 mil…
JW Winco, Inc., has opened a new distribution centre and branch office in Canada. The new facility, located in Woodbridge, Ontario, has over 6,000 square feet of warehouse space, and over 2,300 square feet of office space. “We have over 2,500 individual items in stock to improve our service to our customers in Canada,”
In a collaborative effort to support the healthcare industry during this COVID-19 crisis, Heidenhain is working with Applied Motion Products, Inc. to expedite critical components to a large manufacturer of ventilators. Now in various stages of delivery, the Applied Motion Products’ StepSERVO Integrated Motors equipped with Heidenhain’s R
Vaccine development requires an automated pipetting system which performs programmed transfers of liquid. The word "pipetting" is referring to the laboratory tool called pipette, which is commonly used in molecular biology, analytical chemistry, and medical tests, to transport a measured volume of liquid. Automatic pipetting in
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC), through its subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical America, Inc. (MCA), entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gelest Intermediate Holdings, Inc., parent of Gelest, Inc. and part of New Mountain Capital, LLC (NMC). “We are excited to acquire Gelest as its business fits well within MCC’s long-term s…
Imperial Oil Ltd. is slowing or deferring maintenance work throughout its operations as it tries to ensure employee safety in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected 83 workers at its Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta. The Calgary-based company said Friday it will start a planned one-month maintenance shutdown of one of i…
Ontario provided guidelines to businesses Thursday for how to eventually reopen safely, giving a glimpse of life post-isolation, with physically distant offices, a greater reliance on retail delivery and restricting passengers on public transit. There are no dates yet for restarting the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but Premier Doug F…
Bosch Rexroth won the Spotlight On New Technology Award from the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC 2020) for its High Force and Low Voltage Subsea Valve Actuator (SVA). This groundbreaking innovation enables the implementation of the all-subsea factory in green- as well as in brownfields. The award-winning solution was recognized for i
VELO3D has announced that it has raised $28 million in a Series D funding round. New investors Piva and TNSC joined the round, along with existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Playground, and Khosla Ventures. This brings VELO3D’s total funding to $138 million. “With the VELO3D integrated solution of Flow a
ISO 6336 is the most important standard for the strength calculation of cylindrical gears. Parts 1 (principles, general influence factors), 2 (flank) and 3 (root) have been revised and republished in 2019. Compared to the previous version, the changes in the calculated safeties are in some cases significant and will influence the design
After receiving all the official approvals, Voith successfully completed the acquisition of ELIN Motoren GmbH on April 30, 2020. ELIN Motoren, headquartered in Austria, is a high-tech company in the field of electric motors and generators that is active worldwide and supplies individualized solutions for industrial applications. &nbs
The global COVID-19 crisis is placing unprecedented demands on government and healthcare organizations, driving a critical need for front line workers’ access to personal protective equipment (PPE). Power management company Eaton is using its manufacturing, 3D printing expertise and partner network to fulfill a JobsOhio order for rapid p
