Manufacturing companies have traditionally been much more focused on making and marketing products than on what to do with them at the end of their useful lives. Disposing of old cars, dead appliances and obsolete electronics products was, for the most part, someone else’s problem.
Hamilton Sundstrand (Windsor Locks, CT) is a frequent flyer of sorts. The company’s products have accumulated hundreds of thousands of air miles, traversing the globe for almost 60 years.
Proton (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) has invested substantial research and development to ensure the success of its new concept vehicle. Proton believes that passenger comfort, product manufacturability and feasibility of maintenance are key differentiators in car development.
When Fralock Corp. (Canoga Park, CA) needed to supply adhesive-backed assemblies for a customer’s high-definition television projectors, it had the experience and the relationships, but not the equipment, to successfully pull the job off.
Tetra Pak (Lund, Sweden), a food packaging machinery manufacturer, has selected Stalatube Oy’s (Lahti, Finland) stainless steel hollow sections for the framing structures of its packaging machines. Economical feasibility and flexible installation were major reasons for choosing Stalatube.
When Suspa Inc. (Altdorf/Nuremberg, Germany), a producer of nitrogen gas cylinders, began looking for a U.S. company to supply assembly equipment to its North American unit, its search stopped with JR Automation Technologies Inc. (Holland, MI), a custom machine builder.
Circular geometry measurements of rotors for gas turbine generators are important. The rotating parts of a turbine rotor unit range up to 96 inches in diameter, 120 inches in length and weigh up to 25,000 pounds.
The goal at Amerex Corp. (Trussville, AL), a manufacturer of commercial and industrial fire extinguishers, was to automate the assembly of fire extinguisher valves.
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