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Rollomatic Appoints National Sales Manager

Mundelein, October 2021. Rollomatic Inc is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Twohey as National Sales Manager for the geographical areas of the United States and Canada.

“We selected Brian Twohey for this role based on his extensive sales and manufacturing experience in CNC tool grinding, machines sales and cutting tool sales. His support-oriented sales approach and his strategic mindset will benefit the customer base and such qualities are key to expanding the brand name and drive the ever-evolving new technologies of the company” said Eric Schwarzenbach, President of Rollomatic Inc. “Brian will be instrumental in managing the regional sales team to operate efficiently, outlining training program for existing and new sales personnel, and developing sales strategies in order to achieve the set sales goals, targets and revenue.”

Prior To joining Rollomatic Inc. in 2007, Brian Twohey spent over 10 years at a renowned large carbide cutting tool manufacturer. Brian started as manufacturing engineer. Later, he translated these skills and expanded his career into shop floor manager and eventually production manager, where he oversaw rapid growth in the manufacturing capacity of the company.

Already then, Brian displayed extensive talents by helping his company in international sales by organizing and attending trade shows worldwide.

In 2007, Brian joined Rollomatic as senior applications engineer where he repeatedly demonstrated a high level of customer engagement and a very friendly and amiable personality which is an invaluable asset in sales. Brian’s hands-on understanding of all technical aspect in tool grinding and in cutting tool production will greatly benefit the sales team as well as the customer base. Brian will also join the Group Management Team at Rollomatic/Strausak North America.

Rollomatic Inc., located in Mundelein, Illinois, is a subsidiary of Rollomatic SA, a privately-owned Swiss company established since 1989 in Le Landeron, Switzerland. The US Headquarter was launched in 1994 to provide local customer service and support throughout the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

This location features a 29,000 sq. ft. building with a showroom and training area as well as warehouse and engineering offices. Our showroom provides an ideal atmosphere for machine demos, software training and test grinding, while offering an opportunity to explore the latest Rollomatic offerings.

Rollomatic is looking to the future with its partners such as the EPFL (Swiss Technical University in research, teaching and innovation) so it can be right at the center of the innovations and in-depth discussions shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution. True to its Swiss origins, the company operates at the highest level of precision and offers 100% Swiss-built products and services. Rollomatic is in constant pursuit of excellence in quality and accuracy.

SAKOR Technologies Provides New Hydraulic Cam Phaser Performance Test System for Major International Provider of Drivetrain Components

SAKOR Technologies Inc., a recognized leader in the area of high-performance dynamometer systems, announces that it recently provided a performance test stand for validating designs for new hydraulic variable timing cam phaser

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systems for a major international provider of powertrain components. Powerful and flexible, the cam phaser test stand will be used for research and development on engine timing designs that improve engine fuel efficiency. Simulating an engine using an electric dynamometer is cleaner and safer than using an actual internal combustion engine and reduces the costs and time needed for cam phaser design testing.

The custom built system is designed for use with cam phasers driven by oil pressure. The test system simulates different engine designs, simulating cam torque pulses using two high speed low inertia AccuDyne™ AC Dynamometers and the industry-leading DynoLAB™ data acquisition and control system. One dynamometer drives the timing chain as if it were the engine, while the other simulates cam shaft torque pulses. Parts for testing are mounted in a thermal chamber that can be run at temperatures ranging from -40 to 150°C. This enables engineers to simulate temperatures encountered by those starting engines in all climates. The system controls oil pressure to advance or retard timing of the cam shaft relative to the engine.

The SAKOR system features a 60 kilowatt dynamometers that can operate at up to 8500 revolutions per minute (rpm) to simulate the engine. A 235 kW ultra-low inertia dynamometer is used to simulate the high frequency torque pulses found on a cam shaft. The test stand can be easily adjusted, so it can accommodate a wide range of cam phaser designs. The DynoLAB™ data acquisition and control system provides reliable fully automated test procedures for all customer testing protocols.

“SAKOR is dedicated to helping customers design the next generation of fuel efficient engines in ways that do not require huge expensive facilities to conduct testing of components,” said Randal Beattie, president of SAKOR. “To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first system capable of simulating dynamic cam shaft torque pulsing in real time and in a clean lab environment.”

Metal Exchange Corporation Names President, Pennex Extruded Products

Metal Exchange Corporation is pleased to announce that Mark Butterfield joins the company as President of Pennex Extruded Products. In his new role, Mr. Butterfield will be responsible for the overall strategic, financial, commercial, organizational and operational aspects of the extruded products businesses in Wellsville and York, Pennsylvania and Leetonia, Ohio.

Butterfield brings 30 plus years of progressive experience in the aluminum extrusion industry, including previous experience working in automotive manufacturing. He has an impressive background in the manufacturing industry including leadership roles as Managing Director and Vice President Engineering - Manufacturing. He is also a leader in the industry, serving the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) as a Board of Directors member and AEC Automotive Committee Chairman. Mr. Butterfield’s office will be located in Leetonia, Ohio.

Butterfield stated, “I’m honored to join Pennex Extruded Products, which is one of the preeminent extruders in North America. Pennex is a respected industry leader rich in talent, history and opportunity. Our company is well positioned for growth and success as we further develop our aluminum solutions capability and value-added service to our customers. I look forward to the opportunity to lead the company into a very exciting future.”

In regard to Pennex’s parent company, he goes on to say “Metal Exchange Corporation has an incredible reputation in our industry and I am very pleased to be part of the executive team.”

Chief Executive Officer of Metal Exchange Corporation, Rick Merluzzi weighs in, “Mark is a tremendous addition to our team. He combines extensive industry experience with outstanding leadership skills. His in-depth knowledge, experience, and business acumen will bring valued direction to Pennex Extruded Products. He has a proven track record of growth and we expect his vision will continue, and even accelerate, the success of the business.”

Raymond drives industry to better solve supply chain challenges by optimizing, connecting and automating

As changing consumer demands are pushing accelerated evolutions in the supply chain, The Raymond Corporation, a Toyota Industries Company, celebrates its 100th anniversary and highlights its focus on delivering the technology and material handling equipment needed to meet today’s demands and be better prepared for tomorrow’s challenges.

Building on principles of innovation and continuous improvement for a century, the company is uniquely poised to deliver game-changing solutions in the areas of integrated automation, telematics, virtual reality and advanced energy solutions that will optimize operations and bring warehouses and distribution centers to a new level of performance.

“Just about everything you buy, wear, eat or touch has been moved by a piece of material handling equipment,” said Michael Field, president and CEO of The Raymond Corporation. “E-commerce would not exist as we know it today without innovations in material handling. We’re proud that it takes less time, energy and warehouse space to deliver products to your door because of the cutting-edge solutions Raymond has developed for the last 100 years. We remain steadfastly committed to driving the industry forward.”

Today, Raymond delivers intelligent intralogistics solutions to material handling and logistics markets in North America and globally. With a legacy of industry leadership and innovation, Raymond patented the first hydraulic hand pallet truck and double-faced wooden pallet —ultimately fueling the beginning of the material handling industry.

Raymond's anniversary celebration includes an event at its headquarters in Greene, New York, on Tuesday, June 14. An interactive, museum-style exhibit will be on display to showcase Raymond’s industry-changing innovations and influential employee stories as well as to offer guests an exclusive look into the company’s bright future.

After the event in Greene has concluded, the interactive exhibit will travel across the country to various Raymond Solutions and Support Center facilities, with the celebration ending at ProMat in March 2023.

Introducing Bantam Tools Turnkey Solutions

Bantam Tools, the desktop CNC manufacturer, is launching Bantam Tools Turnkey Solutions. This CNC service gives designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs a proven process to turn designs into physical parts. Bantam Tools engineers will develop a process for machining parts using the Bantam Tools Desktop CNC Milling Machine, then provide the know-how directly to customers, so they can then make those parts on their own. The goal is to empower Bantam Tools Desktop CNC Milling Machine users to mill with confidence.

“Our engineers build a bridge to help designers and engineers learn how to machine parts on our Bantam Tools Desktop CNC Milling Machine with confidence,” said Ron Lorentzen, general manager of Bantam Tools. “This helps parts survive the journey across the challenges and chasms of DFM, CAM, filtering, speeds and feeds and tooling.”

The Bantam Tools Turnkey Solutions is set up to help companies make parts faster using the Bantam Tools Desktop CNC Milling Machine. The service gives designers, engineers and companies a shortcut for figuring out a process to mill on a CNC machine. Depending on the parts a client needs, Bantam Tools will deliver items, such as: » Work instructions for how to set up and run your job » Fusion 360 file with vetted CAD model and CAM toolpaths » .BTP file that saves the job setup in the

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“We’ve had customers get really excited about the Bantam Tools Turnkey Solutions,” said Ron Lorentzen. “There are a lot of companies out there who are needing to bring prototyping in-house and they need aluminum parts, but aren’t quite sure how to go about designing for and using a CNC milling machine. We can help remove those pain points and give customers the know-how to succeed.”

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With the recent addition of three new sales engineers and an application specialist, CERATIZIT USA has doubled the size of its Eastern Territory sales and support team. In doing so, the company further improves response time and provides added expertise for its customers’ custom tooling challenges.

Sales Engineers Andria Bolella, Allan Logan and Sean Delaney, along with Applications Specialist Kenny Green, bring decades of relevant and industry-specific operational experience that will help customers meet their day-to-day challenges of increasing production within existing footprints through better machining performance. The new team members will especially help support those CERATIZIT customers in the heavy machining, aerospace and medical manufacturing sectors.

“We’ve added a lot of experience to a high-quality team here,” said Steve Kuhnle, CERATIZIT USA Eastern Territory National Sales Manager. “With these four new team members and other great team members that were added over the past five years, CERATIZIT has essentially doubled the size of its Eastern Territory support team.”

In addition to helping customers improve performance and “push more product through their spindles,” the new seasoned team members will allow CERATIZIT to improve response times to its customers’ needs, Kuhnle added.

As an application specialist, Green will help customers optimize their processes for improved efficiency and productivity, while Logan brings extensive metallurgical machining knowledge in the jet engine and aerospace sectors and “is a phenomenal resource for us,” Kuhnle said. Bolella started her career as a CNC machinist, advanced to operations manager of a large aerospace machine shop and now brings her 23 years of machining and tooling experience to CERATIZIT customer support. Delaney, a five-year veteran with CERATIZIT with more than two decades in machining, joins the Eastern Territory in Florida from Indiana.

STLE Elects Ryan Evans from The Timken Company as 2022-2023 President

The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) — the technical society serving individuals, companies and organizations that comprise the tribology and lubrication engineering business sector — today announced that Ryan Evans, Ph.D., director of research and development for The Timken Company, will assume the role of 2022-2023 president for a one-year term beginning May 17, 2022.

In his new role, Evans will serve as the principal executive officer of the society and as chairman of its board of directors. During his one-year term, he will implement a strategic plan that emphasizes technical innovation, education and global advocacy in the areas of tribology and lubrication, promoting the positive impact tribology can make across a wide spectrum of applications.

“Ryan’s deep knowledge of the machine tribology and lubrication industry and his numerous contributions to STLE make him an ideal choice for leading our technical society,” said Edward P. Salek, CAE, STLE executive director. “His extensive field experience and accomplishments will equip our community with the tools they need to navigate the next normal.”

Evans joined the STLE Board of Directors in 2015 and became a member of STLE’s Executive Committee in 2019, serving one-year terms as treasurer, secretary and vice president. Joining him on the STLE executive committee for the 2022-2023 term are Vice President Hong Liang, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University), Secretary Jack McKenna (Sea-Land Chemical Company), Treasurer Kevin Delaney (Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC), Immediate Past President Ken Hope, Ph.D. (Chevron Phillips Chemical Company) and STLE Executive Director Edward P. Salek.

“STLE is leading the charge for recovery, and my goal as president is to help the tribology and lubrication sector emerge stronger from the pandemic,” said Evans. “By bringing this highly technical and diverse community back together and leveraging our extensive resources for technical research, education and professional development, we can create a new path forward for innovation.”

In his current role at Timken, Evans is responsible for leading teams that identify and develop new products, materials and manufacturing technologies to meet customer needs. Before transitioning to this position in 2018, he served as the manager of engineering fundamentals and physical testing and was responsible for Timken’s bearing and gear fundamentals, tribology, advanced modeling and simulation, and bearing product performance testing. From 2015 to 2017, Evans worked for manufacturing continuous improvement and supply chain planning groups within Timken’s operations division.

Evans first joined The Timken Company in 2002 as a researcher in the field of advanced materials and made significant contributions in the areas of thin film coatings, lubrication, advanced materials characterization, and tribology within the R&D division. During his tenure at Timken, Evans authored over 40 peer-reviewed technical publications and earned 14 patents in these fields.

Evans is a member of STLE, ASM International and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has received several STLE publishing awards and was cited as a recipient of the 2017 ASM International Engineering Materials Achievement Award (on behalf of The Timken Company). Under his leadership, Timken’s R&D and technology teams received a prestigious R&D 100 award for a wind turbine bearing solution in 2021.

Evans holds a B.S. from The University of Akron and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in chemical engineering. Since 2004, he’s volunteered on STLE’s Surface Engineering and Rolling Element Bearings Technical Committees, the Awards Committee and the Annual Meeting Program Committee.

Extremely Compact ArcWorld Workcells Easily Integrate Robotics into Weld Processes

ArcWorld RS and ArcWorld HS, deliver a highly flexible, compact and cost-effective option for integrating robotics into current weld processes. Ideal for replacing or supplementing manual welding, such as pre-assembly before welding in larger robotic workcells, each solution is designed for optimizing small- to medium-size part production for medium volume fabrication.

Requiring only 2.3 square meters (25 sq ft) of floorspace, the ArcWorld RS utilizes a rotating station (RS) design, manually indexed by the operator, featuring two fixture tables with a 100 kg payload capacity per side. This facilitates quick changeover, allowing parts to be safely loaded and unloaded while the opposite station part is welded. Parts up to 425 x 700 x 990 mm can be processed.

More compact, the ArcWorld HS needs only 1.4 square meters (15 sq ft) of floorspace and offers a hinged station (HS) design, allowing easy access for loading and unloading of parts. The workcell features a single fixture table with a 100 kg payload capacity and can process parts up to 550 x 500 x 1,050 mm in size. This cell is ideal for R&D and educational use as well as smaller production runs.

Each ArcWorld features a single high-speed, six-axis AR900 arc welding robot with YRC1000 controller. An intuitive digital weld interface for all power source brands is included. An integrated weld package includes either a Miller® Auto-Continuum™ 350 or Lincoln Electric Power Wave® R450 power source, wire feeder, wire spool holder and a variety of available torch options. Processes from the power supply are accessed by Yaskawa’s easy-to-use digital Universal Weldcom Interface (UWI), giving full control of welding parameters and settings from the robot programming pendant.

Each solution offers overhead LED lighting and is enclosed with sheet metal and light-reducing polycarbonate for arc and spatter protection. A built-in extraction hood for fume filtration and four-button operator panel with E-stop also come as standard.

The ArcWorld RS and ArcWorld HS are safeguarded and have a completed risk assessment compliant with ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012, and other relevant ISO and CSA standards. The robot controller’s Functional Safety Unit (FSU) uses “stand still” monitoring for the robot and safety signals. All workcell doors are safety monitored.

Each workstation, including the robot and safety fencing, come attached on a common base with integrated cable management for easy shipping and installation. Easy-open, safety-interlocked side panels allow for easier robot programming and equipment access.

Additional optional features are available, including a light beacon (3 color), Digital TouchSense, gas flow rate meter (CWT) gas flow sensor (SMC) and a torch cleaning station (with or without wire cutter).