Risdon International Inc. (Watertown, CT) manufactures containers and bottles for the cosmetics in-dustry. Customers include Chanel, Avon, Mary Kay and Proctor & Gamble.
The Kverneland Group (Kverne-land, Norway) makes a wide range of farm equipment, including ploughs, cultivators, harrows, seeders, fertilizers and rotary tillers.
The U.S. Labor Department reported last week that new applications for jobless benefits rose to 384,000, up 25,000 from the previous week. Paradoxi-cally, perhaps, many companies continue reporting a severe shortage of skilled labor.
ASSEMBLY magazine’s Online University webcast series returns to the Internet next month, with new presentations from four of the nation’s leading experts in product assembly and design.
Mega Pumps LP (Eatontown, NJ), a subsidiary of MegaPlast GmbH (Villngen-Schwenningen, Ger-many), manufactures airless metered pump dispensers used in the medical device and cosmetics indus-tries.
Established in 1989, Michigan Automotive Compressor maintains a 786,000-square-foot produc-tion facility equipped with some 200 robots and 650 production machines.
To protect one of its under-the-hood automotive connectors, the company needed to encapsulate some 80 wires that allow the plug-in device to tie together an onboard computer network.
Structural adhesives are typically associated with automotive and aerospace applications. But, many appliance manufacturers are examining the pros and cons of bonding, because it offers numerous benefits. Despite those advantages, screws, bolts and rivets still remain popular with appliance engineers.
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