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GM strike pushes industrial production down 0.8% last month
(AP) WASHINGTON – A strike at General Motors pushed U.S. manufacturing production lower in October, adding to the troubles confronting American industry. Manufacturing output tumbled 0.6% last month, the Federal Reserve said Friday, largely because production of cars and auto…
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Great Panther reports second mining fatality in less than two weeks
Vancouver-based Great Panther Mining Ltd. says an employee was killed late Sunday at the processing plant of its Coricancha Mine complex in Peru. The news comes less than two weeks after Great Panther reported a contractor’s 41-year-old employee was killed…
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Family of Labrador crash victim sues Quebec airline over alleged negligence
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – The family of a fishing guide who died in a Labrador floatplane crash this summer is suing the Quebec airline for damages, alleging negligence and breach of contractual duties. Seven men, including the pilot, were on…
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STLE Hamilton Holds Education Day
The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Hamilton Section recently held its Education Workshop at ArcelorMittal’s Regional Learning and Development Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. The day-long event featured a cross section of topics of importance to Tribologists and lubrication…
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Rockhopper Industrial Announces Complete Line of PVF and Oilfield Products
Rockhopper Industrial is implementing a direct-to-market supply chain model, and has eliminated the costs traditionally associated with engineering, producing, testing, transporting, and delivering PVF and other oilfield equipment. “Traditional PVF suppliers are operating unnecessarily expensive processes to produce their parts,”…
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EMC Wins Award
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) was awarded the Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award for outstanding achievement in promoting and supporting workplace literacy and essential skills training in the Canadian workplace. The Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and…
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Sheridan College Unveils New Industrial Program
Sheridan’s Continuing and Professional Studies division announced a partnership with power transmission representatives to offer a 16-week, Industrial Distribution Program (IDP) focused on the distribution of bearings, power transmission products and other industrial parts. The program comprises eight weeks in…
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EMC Appointments
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC), announced that Stephanie Yakimishyn is transitioning from Field Service Advisor to the Member Needs Help Program. Stephanie has contributed significantly to shaping the role of a successful FSA, holding the role for nearly 20 years.…
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CMTS Focuses on Technology
The Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show (CMTS) recently brought together those in the manufacturing industry to showcase new products, processes, and technologies. CMTS offered those in attendance a massive trade show floor, keynote addresses, panel discussions, and workshops. “CMTS continues to…
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Grounded Boeing jet hits another pothole in path to return
(AP) DALLAS – Regulators are asking Boeing to revise documentation of its proposed fixes to software on the 737 Max jet, and the company said Wednesday that it is too early to know whether the request will further delay the…
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AP: Arizona has 16 dams rated high hazard and in poor shape
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An earthen dam that lies directly upstream from Fredonia near the Arizona-Utah border has long been classified as unsafe – repairs constantly delayed by lack of money. A breach during a severe storm would put hundreds of…
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Small aircraft operators making ‘gradual drift’ toward unsafe flying, says TSB
OTTAWA – Small aircraft operators in Canada have fallen into a trap of accepting too many safety risks _ and it has to stop before more people are killed or injured, the Transportation Safety Board warned Thursday. TSB senior investigator…
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B.C. should demand miners pay cleanup costs up front: Indigenous study
VANCOUVER – A report is urging British Columbia to get better financial guarantees that mining companies will pay for the mess they make. The First Nations who commissioned the study say that if the government doesn’t do it, they will.…
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Semafo raises death toll to 39 from ambush of bus convoy in Burkina Faso
MONTREAL – The death toll from last week’s attack on employees of a Canadian gold miner in Burkina Faso has been raised to 39 people. Montreal-based Semafo Inc. previously reported at least 37 fatalities after an ambush Wednesday on a…
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Great Panther Mining reports fatality in a rock fall at Mexican mine
Vancouver-based Great Panther Mining Ltd. says a contractor’s employee was killed at its San Ignacio underground mine in Mexico. The intermediate gold and silver mining company says the fatality occurred Friday afternoon during an isolated rock fall at the mine,…
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Atlas Copco acquires WestRon
Atlas Copco has acquired WestRon Group of companies. WestRon focuses on sales, installations and service of small industrial compressors and blowers to the general industrial manufacturing industry. “Extending our service offering is a part of our strategy to grow our…
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WAGO Name New Regional Sales Manager
Drew Amos has been named Regional Sales Manager for Southern California. He has been an inside sales rep for Moxa Americas, and a Territory manager for Ecolab. Most recently he was Regional Sales Manager at Moxa. “I’m excited to hear…
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FLIR InfraCanada 2019 Concludes in the Falls
FLIR Canada recently held its InfraCanada 2019 event at the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The event hosted 60 people, and allowed infrared thermographers to learn and share skills. “InfraCanada in its 11th year, has got better each year…
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CTMA Hosts Series of Seminars on Doing Business
The Canadian Tooling and Machining Association (CTMA) recently held a series of breakfast seminars entitled Doing Business in an Uncertain, Threatening, Tariffied World, presented by Stephen Tapp, Deputy Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Research and Analysis Department, Export…
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Hydro Quebec making headway in aftermath of fierce autumn storm, but will need more time
MONTREAL – Hydro-Quebec’s president said the number of clients without power will drop to less than 100,000 by late Sunday, with the remaining, more complex cases to take a few more days to fix as the utility deals with the…
