People – May 2007
• Jet Edge Inc. promotes Nancy Lauseng to the newly created position of marketing manager to oversee and coordinate all media relations, trade exhibitions, product marketing materials and Website for the St. Michael, Minn.,...
Category: News
Marble Falls In Toronto
TORONTO – All of the 24,000 marble slabs now cladding the 72-story First Canadian Place skyscraper will be inspected after one of them fell 51 stories during an afternoon thunderstorm on May 15. The...
Entries Now Taken For ’07 Pinnacles
CLEVELAND – The Marble Institute of America (MIA) is now accepting entries for the 2007 Pinnacle Award competition – but don’t tarry getting them in. Entries are due at MIA’s Cleveland office by July...
Braxton-Bragg Moves to New HQ
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Braxton-Bragg Corp. relocated to a new facility here that is larger, more-efficient and more-convenient for serving their customers. The new 46,000 ft² facility, located just off I-640 in Knoxville, offers a...
Pedrini: Resin Line In At Volargne
VOLARGNE, Italy – The latest Pedrini S.p.A. resining line, designed for medium-sized needs, has been purchased by Marmi Montebaldo for its factory here. It will be used for processing marble and granite slabs with...
Pearlman Gets Dimensional Tools
ST. LOUIS – Pearlman Industries Inc. acquired Dallas-based Dimensional Tools Inc. on May 16. Dimensional Tools will become part of Pearlman’s Keystone Tools division. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed. Dimensional is a value-added...
Company Notes – May 2007
• Marmo Machinery USA announces its Fifth Annual Summer Machine Open House on June 29 at its Southfield, Mich., headquarters. The event will display a representative sample of Marmo Machinery’s major equipment segments, including...
Formica Sold To N.Z. Company
CINCINNATI – Fletcher Building Ltd., a New Zealand materials and construction company, will buy Formica Corp. for $700 million Formica officials announced the deal on May 22 with a statement from their Cincinnati headquarters....
People: April 2007
• Northwood Machine Manufacturing Co. expands its Stoneworks Division with Robbie Tidwell as sales and marketing manager. Tidwell, who’s been with the Louisville, Ky.-based company since 1992, holds extensive industry experience, including operation of his own CNC-equipped cabinet shop, as well as regional sales and customer support management.
Northwood also appoints Anthony Crain and Bryan Johnson as application engineers responsible for the operation of the state-of-the-art Northwood Education and Research Center, which expands and facilitates technology transfer from the company to its customers. The company also adds Leanne Hernandez as director of marketing; she joins the company after providing marketing services to Northwood for several years on an independent basis.
News Briefs May 2007
• Granite City Tool Co. launches www.cnctooladvice.com, an Internet forum for total advice on CNC needs. The Waite Park, Minn., company will offer the expertise of Tom Dingmann, CNC sales/purchasing manager; Marty White, CNC division manager and former U.S. national sales manager for Tyrolit-Vincent tools; Doug Fanning, CNC specialist with 15 years of machine experience; Ben Jensen, CNC specialist and former CNC application engineer for Komo Machine; and John “Rock” Davis, Midwest CNC Tool Specialist and leader of Granite City’s hand-on fabrication seminars.