Hwacheon celebrates 80 years, Kyzen and Wipfli win top awards, and new partnerships emerge from Stratasys, United Grinding, and YCM Alliance. Plus, leadership updates from ECI, Big Daishowa, and NCDMM, and upcoming events from NCMS and LK Machinery.
Trumpf links up and locks in. Renishaw makes Raman more accessible. In metrology we trust. HyperMILL spins up the crowd. Printing rockets and rebuilding supply chains.
The put a GPU in body armor. Okuma expands strategic leadership. Hexagon extends its reach (and its ruler). Parker plugs in. From startup to supply chain staple.
Celebrating Autodesk, Trumpf, and MTI Welding Technologies. America Makes' new $1.3 million AM project call. Ellison Technologies, FANUC, and the ARM Institute announce upcoming events. Okuma, Clausing Industrial, and others strengthen their leadership.
New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, totaled $529.4 million in August 2025.
Sandvik digs in deep. Boeing’s busy September closes in on Airbus. Lockheed’s latest lot lands big. Northrop’s rocket center gets more rocket-y. 3D Systems hits ctrl + shift + refocus.
ARM Institute, ECI Software Solutions, and Kennametal get awards. Growth initiatives at Kitamura Machinery, DN Solutions, and Ellison Technologies. New leaders at Mate Precision Technologies and Kyzen. America Makes projects worth $10.8M. NCMS white paper.
New orders of metalworking machinery totaled $387.3 million in July 2025, a 9.5% decrease from June 2025 but a 20.1% increase from July 2024. Machinery orders placed through July 2025 totaled $2.91 billion, up 14.4% over the first seven months of 2024.
Morris Group is Okuma's distributor of the year. Autodesk opens the Technology Engagement Center. DN Solutions builds a plant in India. Mazak expands with Phoenix Technical Center. Mitsubishi HC Capital America and Trumpf get new hires and regional reps.
IACMI turns 10. Zoller celebrates 80 years. Mission named Co-op Employer of the Year. Plus a brand relaunch from Lambda Function, Stratasys' major facility news, leadership appointments at Kyzen, Mitsubishi HC Capital America, and Tolomatic, and more.