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🇺🇸 This Week in Manufacturing

Companies that don’t innovate, stagnate, and eventually die. Our feature company today not only continues to innovate and grow but is directly training the next generation of machinists. Let’s dive into their process!

This week’s feature company is Vulcan Tool Company, in production for over a century. Through acquisition and focused machine innovation, they’ve managed to thrive. Beyond fulfilling client orders, they focus their efforts on attracting and training the next generation of manufacturers.

Next, this week’s Social Video gives a quick glimpse into why machining remains a vital–and impressive–part of American manufacturing. AI can’t do it all!

This week’s Fun Fact highlights the benefits of continued improvement, just like Vulcan Tool.

Finally, this week’s headlines cover advances in pharma manufacturing, clean energy, and much more. American manufacturing is definitely changing, but it’s not going anywhere.

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⚙ Manufacturing Headlines

• DOD enlists Evotec subsidiary in antibody manufacturing program [Fierce Pharma]

• NovaSpark Energy Corp. Wins Contract for Groundbreaking Hydrogen Fuel Project [North American Clean Energy]

• Machining Remains Strong 100+ Years in Ohio [CompanyWeek]

• Twelve scenes from America's "hidden" industrial world [De Zeen]

• Ion Storage Systems gets $20m from US DOE to scale up next-gen EV batteries [Mining.com]

• How the U.S. Should Prioritize Clean Energy Innovation Investment [Real Clear Energy]

INDUSTRIAL & EQUIPMENT

♨️ Vulcan Tool Company

After over a century, this manufacturer of specialized production equipment has expanded its operations through acquisition, offering customers everything from custom manufacturing equipment to the production of specialty parts.

Vulcan Tool Company of Dayton, Ohio, started in 1916 as a small tool and die shop. Today, under the guidance of owner and president Ashley Webb, the company continues to thrive and expand.

To help build the next generation, once a month, Vulcan hosts Explorer scouts from ages 14 to 17 to learn about manufacturing and get hands-on experience in machining, welding, machine repair, and engineering.

Upshot: “Acquiring Vulcan Tool provided something we never had before – a product to sell with the shimmy trim die and tube-cutting machines.”

FROM THE FEED

📱Why machining is so impressive

 🤨 Did You Know?

CNC software advancements have led to productivity gains of

up to 50%

in machining operations.

^{Source: World Metrics Report}

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