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Gates Moves to New Headquarters
Gates Corporation has moved its world headquarters facilities to…
Canadian Bearings Appoints Don Latham as President
Don Latham has been appointed president of Canadian Bearings Ltd., Mississauga, Ont. For the past 18 years he has held several sales and marketing positions with the industrial distributor, including …
Reed Exhibitions Canada Names New President
Reed Exhibitions Canada of Toronto has appointed Steve Prahalis as president. He succeeds John Lewinski as the head of the Canadian division of the international trade show management firm.Lewinski ha…
Ringball Expands on Its 50th Anniversary
Ringball Corp. of Mississauga, Ont., is marking its fiftieth anniversary this year by expanding its head office and warehousing operation. The company, which was incorporated in 1953, is adding a sepa…
Presentations Held on Pemac’s Mmp Program
PEMAC, the Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada, held presentations and meetings jointly with colleges offering its MMP (Maintenance Management Professional) certification program i…
Company Briefs (September 01, 2003)
RotoPrecison Inc. of Mississauga, Ont., is now the exclusive Canadian distributor for Motovario’s speed reducer product line. The range includes aluminum-housed worm gearboxes, in-line helical reduc…
Handling Specialty Marks 40th Anniversary
Handling Specialty of Grimsby, Ont., is celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2003. It has grown from a small, two-car garage to a company with two divisions and manufacturing facilities in Grimsby …
NTN Canada to expand corporate headquarters (September 01, 2003)
NTN Bearing Corporation of Canada Ltd. has announced plans to build a new, expanded corporate headquarters.Official groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Canadian corporate head office and distributio…
Canadian Team Competes in Mechatronics at Worldskills Event
A Canadian team has competed successfully in the 37th WorldSkills 2003 Competition in mechatronics. The event was held June 19-22, 2003, in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The WorldSkills summits happen only…
Small Survey Shows Average Maintenance Salary
The fifth annual international survey of salaries in the maintenance sector has been released by the Plant Maintenance Resource Center of Booragoon, Australia (www.plant-maintenance.com). It shows the…
Downtime minimized while paper mill automated
Norampac Inc.’s Trenton, Ont., mill has avoided the costly downtime normally associated with the installation, commissioning and extensive operator and supervisor training required for the implementat…
Stuck with a problem?
ou’ve been putting things off: a few large projects or maybe a pile of work in general. Or you’ve got a repair job you just can’t get your head around. The strange thing is that you want to get moving…
Sumitomo Gets Vp for Large Industrial Business Unit
Joseph Sitta has joined Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America (SMA) as vice-president of its Large Industrial Business Unit, based in Chesapeake, Va., which includes primary responsibility for the…
Adapter ball bearing lowers maintenance costs
Rockwell Automation has introduced a line of Dodge Grip Tight adapter ball bearings specifically for washdown environments in the food and beverage industry. An easy-on, easy-off solution for damage-f…
Landry Award Winners are Promoters of Training
The Yves Landry Foundation’s 2003 Awards of Excellence will recognize four individuals from Canadian business and industry when they are presented at the fourth annual STARS Gala Nov. 13, 2003, in Tor…
Drive for Uptime
More then 19 years ago, Gerdau Ameristeel Whitby, one of the largest steel mini-mills in Canada, decided to switch to new speed reduces and gearmotors in order to keep its plant runing 24/7. The acili…
Spherical roller bearing withstands hostile conditions
NSK’s EA spherical roller bearings feature larger and additional rollers that increase the bearing’s load-carrying capacity, making them particularly suited to harsh conditions in mining and pulp and …
Gauge prolongs v-belt life
Goodyear Canada’s Engineered Products Division has introduced a tension tool for determining precise belt tension measurements wherever v-belt applications are used in mining, manufacturing, oil and g…
Service Will Help Assess Life Cycle and Maintenance Costs of Hvac Equipment
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is developing a new web data service to help engineers and their clients select airconditioning and heating syste…
B.C. Engineers to Merge With Technologists
Professional engineers in British Columbia have voted in favour of merging their professional interests with technologists in the province.The move overturns the traditional guarded suspicion and prof…
New Federation Formed for Machine, Tool, Die and Mould Industries
The Canadian Association of Moldmakers (CAMM), the Canadian Tooling & Machining Association (CTMA) and the Canadian Pattern-Modelmakers Association (CPMA) signed an official agreement to join together…
Degreaser is safe to use
Simple Green All-Purpose Cleaner /Degreaser is biodegradable, non-toxic, non-abrasive and non-flammable. It can be used full strength or custom-diluted for a broad range of cleaning applications, incl…
Maintenance Events List Is Comprehensive
More than 80 events of interest to those involved in plant maintenance, plant engineering, and machinery and equipment industries, are listed on the website www.mro-esource.com, produced by Machinery …
Will the PTDA change its name?
When the Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) was formed in 1960, over 40 years ago, its name made sense to industry. But doubt about how well the moniker defines the association of toda…
Bunting Magnetics Forms Canadian Division
Bunting Magnetics Co. of Newton, Kan., has formed Bunting Magnetics Canada Inc. of Toronto, the new name for the company it recently acquired — New Moulders Supply Co. Inc. The acquisition gives the …
Always Be Prepared
You never know when trouble’s going to strike. Our June 2003 issue was being put together in the midst of Ontario’s second SARS scare, and everyone who coughed within earshot was looked at with derisi…
Meat of maintenance to be revealed
The second annual Creating a 21st Century Maintenance Organization conference has been scheduled for Nov, 24-26, 2003 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto. The event is organized by Federated Pres…
Doing power transmission business in turbulent times
Today’s business environment is rife with uncertainty. Traditional customers are altering their purchasing systems, unilaterally imposing price reductions on vendors or disappearing from the marketpla…
Survivors of Heat
When you’re dealing with a plant that’s nearly a hundred years old, and operations that might make a day in hell look like a picnic, any investment in new machinery and equipment is certain to bring r…
Be a Data Doctor
It’s hard to believe but this is the fifth edition of the cmms software solutions column. if you been with us these past few months you would have read about how a computerized maintenance management …
