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Manufacturing
Rising prices and production boost Stelco earnings in first report since IPO
Hamilton – A restructured Stelco Holdings Inc. is benefiting from rising steel prices and on the hunt for acquisitions, chief executive Alan Kestenbaum said Thursday. “Our initiatives to increase production and expand margins are starting to deliver the intended results,”…
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Festo is founding technology partner in Next Generation Manufacturing Canada
Mississauga, ON – Festo, a global leader in automation technology, announced that the company is a founding technology partner in Next Generation Manufacturing/NGM Canada. Festo reports that the new advanced manufacturing supercluster is in keeping with the company’s vision of…
Rising prices and production boost Stelco earnings in first report since IPO
Hamilton – A restructured Stelco Holdings Inc. is benefiting from rising steel prices and on the hunt for acquisitions, chief executive Alan Kestenbaum said Thursday. “Our initiatives to increase production and expand margins are starting to deliver the intended results,”…
US factory output flat for 2nd straight month
Washington – U.S. factory output was unchanged in January for the second straight month after three months of healthy gains. The Federal Reserve says production fell in wood products, aircraft and a category including concrete and glass. Yet factories also…
Jobs to blossom, production to grow under Manitoba potato plant expansion
Portage La Prairie, Man. – A major expansion project has been announced for a Manitoba potato-processing plant that’s expected to create about 90 new full-time jobs. J.R. Simplot Co. and the provincial government have outlined details of the $460-million expansion…
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Advanced manufacturing supercluster wins federal funding
Ottawa – When small, medium-sized and large companies, academic institutions and not-for-profit organizations come together to generate bold ideas, Canadians benefit from more well-paying jobs, groundbreaking research and a world-leading innovation economy. That’s why the Government of Canada is investing…
Using virtual reality to train industrial workforce
Houston – Honeywell announced a cloud-based simulation tool that uses a combination of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to train plant personnel on critical industrial work activities. With as much as 50 percent of industrial plant personnel due…
Time has come for national big data strategy, tech leaders tell governments
Ottawa – Tech leaders are challenging the federal Liberal government to get serious about reaping the rewards of one of the next big frontiers in the information revolution: big data. Canadian CEOs and academics have been pushing Ottawa for months…
Cascades finalizes the sale of its New York plant
Kingsey Falls, QC – Cascades Inc., a leader in the recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue products, announced that it has completed the sale of the building and land of its Maspeth plant, located in the state of…
Suncor Energy says driverless trucks will eliminate a net 400 positions
Calgary – About 400 jobs are expected to disappear at Suncor Energy Inc.’s oilsands mines in northern Alberta as it deploys driverless ore-hauling trucks to replace the ones humans operate now. “We have about 500 roles that will get eliminated…
Statistics Canada says manufacturing helps boost economic growth in November
Ottawa – Strength in manufacturing helped boost economic growth in November as the sector posted its largest monthly increase since February 2014. Statistics Canada said real gross domestic product increased 0.4 per cent in November following a flat reading for…
Dr. Oetker closing New Brunswick pizza manufacturing plant in May
Grand Falls, N.B. – Dr. Oetker is closing its leased pizza manufacturing plant in Grand Falls, N.B., at the end of May, eliminating 180 jobs. The company says an estimated 70 per cent of the production will move to its…
American skies open to C Series after Bombardier win against Boeing
Montreal – The skies over the world’s largest aerospace market have opened to Bombardier’s C Series aircraft after it won a resounding victory Friday against Boeing Co. U.S. International Trade Commissioners voted 4-0 that Boeing didn’t suffer harm from prospective…
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Replacement of reheating furnaces at Quebec steel production facilities costs a pretty penny
Contrecoeur, QC – ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada announces major investments of nearly $70 million by 2020 in its Contrecoeur, Quebec steel production facilities. These sums will enable the company to maintain its leading position in steel in North America, with…
Trans-Pacific Partnership does not affect NAFTA talks yet, say chief negotiators
Montreal – The signing of a sprawling new trade pact involving two North American countries has revealed a rift in philosophy with the continent’s superpower and raised the question of whether those differences might complicate the NAFTA negotiations. Canada and…
BlackBerry launches game-changing cybersecurity product for automakers, shows promise for industrial automation
Detroit, MI – In a keynote address at the North American International Automotive Show, BlackBerry Limited Executive Chairman and CEO, John Chen, unveiled BlackBerry Jarvis, a transformational software cybersecurity product. BlackBerry is initially marketing this solution to automakers, whose complex…
Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales hit record high in November
Ottawa – Canadian manufacturing sales hit a record high in November, driven by sales of transportation equipment, petroleum and coal products and the chemical industry, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency said manufacturing sales climbed 3.4 per cent to $55.5…
GM Canada president says NAFTA update needs to reflect changing technology
Markham, Ont. – GM Canada president Steve Carlisle says it’s important to update NAFTA to reflect changing technology since the original trade deal was signed. Carlisle says the automaker is cautiously optimistic about the trade talks as he prepared for…
Government takes another step to ban asbestos with new, proposed rules
Ottawa – The federal government has laid out a tough set of proposed new regulations to prohibit the use, sale, import and export of asbestos and products that contain it, as well as the manufacture of products containing the cancer-causing…
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Skills Ontario names new CEO
Waterloo, ON – Ray Lavender, President of the Board of Directors for Skills Ontario, today announced the selection of Ian Howcroft as CEO, effective January 29, 2018. Howcroft replaces outgoing Skills Ontario CEO Gail Smyth, who had retired this past…
