CHICAGO — Organizers are loudly calling Fabtech 2017 a success, as the Nov. 6-9 event at Chicago’s McCormick Place conference facility attracted almost 45,000.
Many shop owners and managers know that it takes a well-equipped facility to be competitive in the HVAC construction and sheet metal forming market, but that’s only one requirement.
Kansas City, Missouri-based AJ Manufacturing recently completed its move into a new 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and headquarters, which company officials said has increased capacity by 50 percent.
Petersen is opening a new manufacturing facility in Phoenix for its Pac-Clad brand. The 52,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2018.
Two words keep coming up when Glenn Parvin, owner of Custom Architectural Sheetmetal Specialists Inc., talks about Detroit’s new Little Caesars Arena: “passion project.”
The Metal Construction Association is offering a metal roofing certification program to help companies differentiate their products from the competition. The program is open to paint and coatings companies, roofing product manufacturers, coil processors and roll formers.
This year’s Metalcon, which takes place Oct. 18-20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, will cover a number of topics on metal construction, metal roofing, and the role of technology and automation in the sheet metal industry.
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