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TPC Partners Acquires Majority Interest in Tray-Pak
TPC Partners, LLC, an affiliate of Archbrook Capital Management, LLC, announced that it had acquired a majority interest in BFTP/NEP client Tray-Pak Corporation, a leading manufacturer of custom thermoformed plastic packaging products. Tray-Pak received the 2007 Manufacturing Achievement Innovation Award from BFTP/NEP. TPC Partners will Read More...
Resource Energy Systems Technologies: Motor Controllers That Reduce Energy Demand
As energy costs continue to rise, companies are challenged to keep costs in line without affecting productivity or normal conveniences. Across the United States there are more than 2 billion active motors consuming 60 percent of all energy used. Using a concept initially developed by Read More...
United Corrstack: Developing a Co-Generation Plant to Provide Steam and Electricity to Its Manufacturing Facility
United Corrstack normally keeps a low profile in their mill in Reading, PA, quietly making recycled corrugated fluting paper for use in cardboard boxes. But the company recently stepped into the spotlight with a coveted Manufacturing Achievement Award Read More...
Harrison Machine: Enabling Foundries to Cut Emissions and Energy Use
The management team at Harrison Machine Co. (HMC) has discovered that half is better than all. HMC designs and manufactures machines used by foundries to build cores and molds that, in turn, are used to make castings. Read More...
Custom Processing Services: Making Things Small Means Big Business
Custom Processing Services founders Gregg Shemanski and Jeff Klinger showcase one of their micronizing mills, which grinds materials into ultrafine particles. Over the past 10 years, Custom Processing Services (CPS) has specialized in making things smaller. Waxes, polymers, minerals, metals, fillers, pigments-are all reduced to Read More...
PA Insulating Glass: A Lost Job Leads Entrepreneur into a Successful New Business
PA Insulating Glass provides energy-efficient insulating glass units to window and door OEM manufacturers in central Pennsylvania. When the glass fabrication plant where he worked closed, plant manager Tim Wilkins faced a turning point in his life. Rather than change careers or relocate, Wilkins decided Read More...
Michelman-Cancelliere Iron Works Takes a Hard Look in the Mirror to Build a Stronger Future
The Marine Parkway Bridge spans Jamaica Bay between Brooklyn and Queens. It was constructed in 1937. After nearly 60 years of service without any major changes, the bridge was in dire need of new concrete and steel grid decking. MC Iron Works supplied critical and Read More...
Cinram: Providing Decades of Music and Video from Vinyl to High-Def
In the midst of the high-definition format war, with some studios backing Toshiba’s HD technology and others backing Sony’s Blu-ray, Warner Home Video is one company that has agreed to offer its customers both options. But it’s the flexibility and constant innovation of Warner Home Read More...
Cherryhill Manufacturing: A Fine Finish to a Smooth Start
For 10 years Cherryhill Manufacturing has been committed to supplying its customers with a superior floor sanding product. The company’s U-SAND floor sander technology eliminates the cost and inconvenience of using three machines by replacing a drum sander, edger and buffer with one unit that Read More...
Kittaning Company Takes Aim at the $2 Billion Fiberglass Fabric Market
For many, the idea of glass stopping bullets may seem strange, but not to an innovative manufacturer of a revolutionary lightweight glass fiber fabric. Dielectric Solutions’ technology, like the loom shown here, has revolutionized the fiberglass fabric reinforcements industry—in large part by eliminating half Read More...
