Industry Updates from MPMA Members

January 17 – Świebodzin, Poland – The automotive industry is one of the four sectors among the SECO/WARWICK Group’s equipment main recipients in 2023. Manufacturers of battery coolers, vehicle suspensions, catalytic converters and air conditioning systems dominated among buyers of metal heat treatment equipment. 

The new Plimsoll Analysis shows how the 202 Cutting Tools & Machinery companies within the UK are performing heading into 2024 and beyond - 50 of your rivals that are in real financial danger.

January 2023, Rochester, New York (USA) - The new Gear Trainer Program 2024 features new and exciting gear technology topics, including gear and transmission design, cutting and hard finishing processes, metrology and gear noise analysis, tools and workholding, as well as software updates and smart production systems. Gear Trainer Webinars take advantage of a mix of different media including live manufacturing and software demonstrations. Within 30 minutes, experts get to the bottom of typical industry challenges, addressing application-specific questions while maintaining a compact, time-efficient format. Participation in Gear Trainer Webinars is free of charge. The following Gear Trainers Webinars are now available for registration.

January 10, 2024 - Świebodzin, Poland - SECO/WARWICK, one of the largest global manufacturers of metal heat treatment equipment, celebrated 2023 as a year of growth with an expansion of production capacity. During a record year, the Group produced 15% more solutions than in the previous year, and invested in production capacity development, expanding its plants by as much as 60%. During the same period, employment in the Group increased by over 6 percent.

January 8, 2024 - Birmingham, Ala. - Motion Industries, Inc., a leading distributor of maintenance, repair and operation replacement parts, and a premier provider of industrial technology solutions, named Chris Cleland to Senior Vice President of Strategy & Markets, effective immediately.

December 20, 2023 - Świebodzin, Poland - An international electric vehicle manufacturer has awarded SECO/VACUUM, a SECO/WARWICK Group company, with an order for a second nitriding furnace to operate in parallel with an existing one.

Avers Machine & Gear has acquired Fox Tool & Manufacturing located in Woodstock, Illinois. Fox Tool & Manufacturing is an Aerospace Machine shop that is AS9100D Certified, ISO 9001/2015 Certified, and ITAR Registered and has been operating for close to 40 years.

November 27, 2023 - Another technology institute has chosen SECO/WARWICK as a vacuum furnace supplier. A Vector® vacuum furnace with high-pressure gas hardening and the option of carburizing, carbonitriding and low-pressure nitriding will be used to develop hybrid technologies for steel low-pressure carburizing and nitriding, as well as the development of Polish technical thought.

Braunschweig, Germany - November 22, 2023 - GWJ Technology GmbH introduces an extended version of the calculation module for involute splines within its web-based software solution eAssistant.

November 22, 2023 - A manufacturer of HVAC systems has awarded SECO/WARWICK’s American subsidiary a contract for a new Controlled Atmosphere Brazing (CAB) Furnace. Designed specifically to meet the brazing needs of North American heat exchanger manufacturers, the furnace offers tremendous gains in both productivity and energy efficiency.