Manufacturing : Buzz

The Brookings Institution released an extensive report that detailed several key export trends in which the Youngstown metro area was among the country’s top performers, ranking it No. 1 in export growth between 2009 and 2012.

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A company from the Netherlands, Quest Medical Imaging, that makes a camera system used to locate lymph nodes and make cancer tumors visible during surgery is setting up a base in downtown Akron to expand further into the U.S. market.

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G-Tekt North America Corp. has chosen a site in Dublin for a proposed research-and-development facility it's pairing with a new manufacturing plant going up in West Jefferson. It's expected to lead to 77 new jobs in the city by the end of next year.

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Honda Motor Co. is upping its recent Ohio investments by another $215 million.

The automaker recently announced another round of upgrades and new construction at facilities in the state, including the addition of new powertrain technology and a technical training center at the Anna Engine Plant and a new 160,000-square-foot building in Marysville that will be home to new office space for Honda North America Services LLC, a new entity housing some jobs and functions relocating from California. It will have about 500 employees, Honda said.

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Procter & Gamble is eying the Dayton region for a new 2 million-square-foot distribution facility and may have selected a location. Multiple sources have confirmed that the consumer goods giant from Cincinnati has been talking to developers around the area recently about the project.

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An Ohio manufacturer looks to drive a revolution in the health care television market.

Springboro-based PDI Communication Systems Inc., which has about 110 employees, started production in the last week of a tablet-like Android-based bedside television for that industry. Also known as the PDI-TAB, it is being billed as the only 14” bedside healthcare-grade HD television of its kind on the market.

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Trumbull County Commissioners have approved a 75 percent tax abatement requested by a Hubbard company planning to expand. VEC/Evets Electrical Inc. wants to invest $2.5 million to expand it's facility on Erie Street in Hubbard.

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Last month, Global Cooling’s Stirling Ultracold SU780U ultra-low temperature freezer, which is manufactured in Athens, Ohio, won the Outstanding New Product Award presented by the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) at their annual meeting in Sydney, Australia.

Two Honda suppliers stand to receive state tax credits for proposed expansions in Logan County that would lead to a combined 65 new jobs. Those are two of four projects in central Ohio that could bring a total of 135 new jobs to the area. Fifteen projects statewide were offered incentives yesterday by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority. If all the companies follow through on their plans, 831 jobs will be created.

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The giant machine might be anchored to the floor, but program everything right and it can fool a super-sized bearing into believing it’s 300 feet in the air. The equipment occupies one-half of a bay in the Stark State College and Timken Co. Technology and Test Center. Timken researchers can run tests to find out how bearings will stand up under a variety of conditions that the machinery can simulate.

Funding for the project came from: Timken Co., $6 million, Stark State College, $3 million, supported by $500,000 from the Timken Foundation, Ohio’s Third Frontier commission, $2.1 million, Ohio Air Quality Development Authority’s Advanced Energy Jobs Stimulus Program, $1.5 million.
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A business in Lorain has grown into a national leader supporting online sales of other companies. Trademark Global, in the former Lorain Ford plant at Baumhart Road and West Erie Avenue, is a multi-faceted business growing into its latest home -- 300,000 square feet of warehouse space at the former automotive plant.

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Vallourec Star dedicated its new seamless pipe mill on June 12 in Youngstown.

First announced in February 2010 with an initial price tag of $650 million, the state-of-the-art facility, which cost more than $1 billion, was constructed in response to growing demand for small-diameter pipe used for hydraulic fracturing, a process that uses water, chemicals and sand to extract natural gas and oil from shale rock thousands of feet below the earth’s surface.

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When all work is complete, German-based manufacturer Festo Corp., makers of electric automation and pneumatic technology, will have its largest U.S. location in Mason, Ohio. The 175,000-square-foot regional service center will employ about 250 people, making it larger than the company’s Hauppauge, N.Y., headquarters, president and CEO Richard Huss said.

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GE Aviation in Cincinnati is revolutionizing the age-old rules of manufacturing and design with additive manufacturing, a 3D printing technology.

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The Timken Company announced the continued expansion of its industrial services capabilities with the acquisition of the Standard Machine business based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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