The battle for supremacy between Airbus and Boeing is heating up. Eyeing potential contracts with US-based companies, the European airplane maker on Monday opened a new plant in the southern state of Alabama. Mobile, Alabama is hardly synonymous with aerospace engineering, but that could be changing. Airbus – the European plane firm with its headquarters in Toulouse, France – has inaugurated a new…

The ExOne Company (Nasdaq:XONE) ("ExOne" or "the Company"), a global provider of three-dimensional ("3D") printing machines and printed products to industrial customers, announced today that it added iron infiltrated with bronze as a new 3D printing material and has also increased its suite of binder solutions for its 3D printing process. ExOne's strategy is to expand its direct metal printing capabilities…

After a contaminated river and spewing smokestacks in the 1960's, folks in Ashtabula are still worried about the impact of a pig iron plant coming to town . On February 7, the EPA issued an air permit, giving the official go ahead to break ground this summer, but some in town are still skeptical . University of Akron geosciences professor John Senko said people are justified to worry. “There are certain…

Braintree, Massachusetts - An explosion was reported at Wollaston Alloys, Inc. at about 11:40 a.m. Monday at 205 Wood Road. The windows of the building were blown out and employees were seen stumbling out of the building covered in soot, Bob Bachman, who works across the street from the scene, told. Bachman added that the employees who escaped from the building did not believe anyone was seriously hurt. Two…

Multiple fire departments remain on the scene of Advanced Cast Products this morning following a reported explosion and fire at the company’s facility in Vernon Township. Multiple departments were called just after 4:30 a.m. when an explosion and fire were reported at the foundry located outside of Meadville. There are no known injuries, according to a dispatcher at the Crawford County 911 Center. Advanced…

Layoff plans at Fort Wayne Foundry Corp. will cut deeper than indicated early this month. According to notices filed with the state's Department of Workforce Development this week, 174 employees at the company's Lima Road division will be laid off sometime in June, along with 52 workers at its machining division at the same time. At the Lima Road operation, workers who will be laid off include 156 hourly…

When Riccardo Procacci says it has been “an eventful year”, the Avio Aero boss knows of what he speaks.The Italy-based maker of jet engine components is just a couple weeks shy of its first year inside the GE Aviation business, which bought it on 1 August 2013 for $4.3 billion from private equity investor Cinven. But while any acquisition is inevitably followed by sometimes-wrenching adjustments to company…

Ohio Third Frontier Commission announced that the Commission recommended more than $2.7 million in grants through the Ohio Research Commercialization Grant Program to eight Ohio companies to support commercialization of new and innovative technologies. The awards are contingent upon State Controlling Board approval. FOPAT, LLC., located in Dayton (Montgomery County) was recommended for $349,992 in funding…

The FOUNDRY-MASTER PRO is an exciting new Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES) analyser for the metals industry. Using advanced CCD technology and an extended wavelength range - starting at an impressive 130 nanometres - the performance of the FOUNDRY-MASTER PRO sets the new benchmark for OES laboratory metal analysers. All components have been designed and optimized for high reliability and establish the…

Fansteel/Wellman Dynamics certainly isn’t feeling the recession’s sting. A 52-foot by 100-foot addition to the facility’s east side will be operational by April. The addition comes along with an incredible boost in Fansteel’s number of employees, sales and annual payroll. For example, the company had just more than 200 employees in 2003, while they basically doubled that number by this year. Mike…