Author Archives: Ashton Henning

Top 5 Industrial Robot Manufacturers in 2025 (Buyer’s Shortlist)

Top industrial robot manufacturers 2025 is exactly what many engineers and ops leaders are searching for. Too many brands, not enough time, and high stakes for throughput and quality. This guide gives a practical shortlist,…

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ATI and Boeing Extend titanium products Long-Term Agreement

ATI Inc. and Boeing have extended and expanded a long-term agreement for titanium products that covers Boeing’s full suite of commercial programs, from narrow to wide body. The renewed pact spans the titanium chain –…

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Russia Signals It Wants to Resume Boeing Titanium JV (VSMPO-AVISMA)

Russia says it hopes to restart the titanium joint venture between VSMPO-AVISMA and Boeing in the Sverdlovsk region, a partnership that has been shuttered since 2022. First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Denis Manturov, told…

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Toyota To Build Its First European BEV At Kolín, Advancing Localized EV Manufacturing

Toyota Motor Europe has announced that it will build its first fully electric car in Europe, marking a strategic milestone for the automaker’s regional operations. The new battery-electric vehicle (BEV) will be produced at Toyota…

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Janicki Industries Breaks Ground On 162,000-Sq-Ft Washington Facility, Adding 350 Jobs

Janicki Industries has broken ground on a significant expansion at its Hamilton, Washington, campus, marking one of the company’s largest investments to date. The new 162,000-square-foot manufacturing building, paired with a 20,000-square-foot storage addition, is…

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Despatch LBB Laboratory Oven vs. Comparable Bench Ovens

This head-to-head pits the Despatch LBB 1-69 (6.9 ft³) against three bench-scale, forced-air laboratory ovens from IndustryTap’s Top-10 brands: Blue M DC-256 (5.8 ft³), Grieve NB-350 (~7 ft³), and JPW ST222 (8 ft³). We look…

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Honeywell’s SURF-A Aims to Cut Runway Collisions by 2026

Honeywell is testing SURF-A, a cockpit alerting system that warns pilots when another aircraft is on or entering their runway. The work runs through Honeywell’s Olathe, Kansas team and recently included a demo flight between…

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Ford’s New Low-Cost EV Platform Targets 2027 in Kentucky

Ford is reworking how it builds electric vehicles. The company unveiled a modular, low-cost EV platform developed by its skunkworks team and slated to launch in 2027 at the Louisville Assembly Plant. The first model…

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Arkansas’s New Timber Center Puts Mass Timber on the Main Stage

Arkansas just gave mass timber a headline act. The Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation in Fayetteville brings CLT and glulam into a teaching and research building with the scale of an industrial…

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UAW, GE Aerospace Reach Tentative Deal After Strike

UAW members at GE Aerospace’s Evendale, Ohio, and Erlanger, Kentucky sites have reached a tentative agreement with the company after a strike that began August 28. The union set a ratification vote for September 19…

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