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Machinery and Equipment Maintenance
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Bank of Canada raises rate, predicts economic resilience despite trade risks
Ottawa – Undaunted by expanding trade risks, the Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz raised the interest rate Wednesday and signalled the economy’s resilience is keeping him on a hiking trajectory. The quarter-point increase, the central bank’s first move in…
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Bombardier’s C Series aircraft officially renamed A220 as it joins Airbus family
Montreal – Bombardier Inc.’s name will no longer appear on its C Series jet, which has been officially renamed the A220 as it joins the Airbus family of commercial aircraft. The name change comes after Airbus officially took a majority…
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Trade pain: Small companies hit by import, export tariffs
New York – Time and effort have gone down the drain for Steve Gould, who is scrambling to find new customers for his gin, whiskey and other spirits since the United States has taken a tough stance on trade issues.…
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Michelin agrees to buy Quebec off road tire maker Camso for US$1.7 billion
Montreal – Michelin says it has reached agreement to purchase Quebec off-road tire maker Camso for about US$1.7 billion. The French-based tire giant says the acquisition will create the world’s largest off-the-road division. Camso, a privately held company based in…
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Machine learning technology make legacy assets smarter
Automate machine learning by creating a data pipeline from legacy equipment.
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NTSB: Damage during installation led to oil pipeline crack
Amherst, S.D. – The National Transportation Safety Board says a fatigue crack caused last year’s rupture of the Keystone oil pipeline in South Dakota. The NTSB said in a report released Thursday that the crack likely originated from mechanical damage…
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Retaliate or not? Canada’s tough decision in the event of U.S. tariffs on autos
Ottawa – Industry leaders say the federal Liberal government will face a complex decision – with deep economic consequences – if the U.S. makes good on its threat to slap 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian-made cars and trucks. Ottawa recently retaliated…
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Bombardier stands to benefit from Chinese tariffs on U.S.
Montreal – Chinese retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products are expected to have mixed impacts on Canada’s agriculture sector but an aerospace analyst says Bombardier stands to gain from duties against U.S. small aircraft. Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group says…
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Recorded footage provides protection after fleet traffic collision
When one of Ontario-based recycling collection firm, Advantage Waste’s front loader garbage trucks was involved in a traffic collision with a reckless car driver; a lack of witnesses meant local police had little choice but to write off the incident…
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Electrical solutions provider supports Skills Canada competition
Burlington, Ont. – Aspiring skilled trades participants recently descended upon annual Skills Canada competitions that were recently held in Toronto and Edmonton. Eaton, a proud corporate supporter of Skills Ontario for the past several years, provided competition products for the…
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Manufacturing PMI hits survey-record high in June with robust rises in output, new orders and employment
June data signalled a robust and accelerated improvement in overall business conditions across the Canadian manufacturing sector. Another strong rise in new work helped to boost production volumes and stimulate additional staff hiring in June. However, intense supply chain pressures…
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ABB completes acquisition of GE Industrial Solutions
ABB announced it has completed its acquisition of GE Industrial Solutions (GEIS), GE’s global electrification solutions business on June 30, 2018. The transaction was announced on September 25, 2017, and is expected to be accretive to operational EPS in the…
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Motion Industries opens new distribution centre
Birmingham, AL – Motion Industries, Inc., a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, has opened the doors for business at its new distribution center (DC) at 4401 D…
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PTDA Releases Groundbreaking PTDA Voice of the End Customer Report
Chicago, Ill. – According to the newly released PTDA Voice of the End Customer report which includes quantitative and qualitative responses from over 1,200 customers of power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) products from a variety of industries, there are distinct differences…
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Bombardier and union reach new collective agreement for Toronto workers
Toronto – Bombardier says it has reached new three-year collective agreements with more than 2,100 production and office workers at its operations in Toronto. The contracts cover workers represented by Unifor Local 112 who work at Bombardier’s Downsview plant and…
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Maple Leaf Foods buying poultry plants in Ontario and Quebec from Cericola Farms
Mississauga, Ont. – Maple Leaf Foods Inc. has signed an agreement to buy two poultry plants and associated supply from Cericola Farms, a privately held company. The plants are in Bradford, Ont., and Drummondville, Que., and together process a total…
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Cervus equipment expands to introduce storage and racking solutions
Calgary, Alta. – Cervus Equipment, the largest John Deere and Peterbilt dealership group in Canada, announced that extensive, new storage and racking solutions will be available from its Forklifts division. Cervus Equipment’s Forklift and Materials Handling division is growing to…
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Allow maintenance to break schedules and watch productivity increase
Why maintenance completes more work when it starts with the right goal.
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Worker critically injured by partly-disassembled machine
A worker who was cleaning a mixer/grinder machine was critically injured by the partly-disassembled machine. On January 20, 2017, a sanitation worker employed by a Toronto meat processor was cleaning a mixer/grinder machine at the plant. The worker was cleaning…
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Trump’s tariffs will be more painful for Canada than U.S.: economist
Toronto – The Trump administration’s tariff threats have the potential to drive companies currently operating in Canada out of the country, the president of a Canadian automotive association said Tuesday. The United States has already imposed tariffs on the steel…
