Awards • acquisitions

SPIROL International Corporation has announced that two of its manufacturing locations have received the 2018 General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award for achieving operational excellence and quality control. This is SPIROL Canada’s fifth year and SPIROL Connecticut’s fourth consecutive year receiving the award. According to the letter sent by General Motors notifying SPIROL of the…

Peninsular Cylinder in Roseville, was voted #1 in the 2nd annual Michigan Manufacturing Association’s “Coolest Thing made In Michigan” competition. This annual competition is open to all Michigan manufacturing companies. Each company submits a product at the Michigan Manufacturing Association website for viewing and judging. From there, association members can vote via social media. Peninsular…

Smalley was presented the General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award for the year 2018. This marks the seventh consecutive year that Smalley has received this prestigious honor. Of more than 4,000 GM suppliers worldwide, 432 recipients were selected this year. A supplier must pass a rigorous quality audit involving 13 specific requirements to receive this…

PTI Engineered Plastics has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2019 honor by The Detroit Free Press. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by research partner Energage, LLC, a leading provider of technology-based employee engagement tools. The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution,…

Winners in the second annual LEAP Awards, celebrating the best components and services across the mechanical and electrical engineering design space, were unveiled on November 5, 2019. Across 13 categories, the judging panel awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze recognitions, as well as Honorable Mentions for certain submissions. The awards program is supported by three leading publications…

Winners in the second annual LEAP Awards, celebrating the best components and services across the mechanical and electrical engineering design space, were unveiled on November 5, 2019. Across 13 categories, the judging panel awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze recognitions, as well as Honorable Mentions for certain submissions. The awards program is supported by three leading…

CLEVELAND, November 5, 2019 — Winners in the second annual LEAP Awards, celebrating the best components and services across the mechanical and electrical engineering design space, were unveiled today. Across 13 categories, the judging panel awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze recognitions, as well as Honorable Mentions for certain submissions. The awards program is supported by…

Due to multiple requests for an extension (as well as the Labor Day holiday in the U.S.), the deadline for submissions into the 2019 LEAP Awards has been extended to Monday, September 16th. Entries submitted must be new products that are commercially available in the United States and have been released since January 1, 2018…

As our world reinvents itself daily, Rockwell Automation is helping to shape the future through its new brand promise, Expanding Human Possibility. The company brings that new brand promise to life with the “You Make It” Challenge, tapping young innovators for the next big ideas in technology and manufacturing. By putting a call out to…

Design World, EE World and Fluid Power World are looking for judges for the 2019 LEAP Awards. This engineering awards program, now in its second year, celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. Our editorial team will assemble an independent panel of engineering professionals to choose the winners, and we’re hoping…

We launched the LEAP Awards last year, as a dynamic competition to honor the most innovative engineered products/components across several of our flagship brands: Design World, Fluid Power World and EE World. Looking at other similar awards programs across the b2b publication space, I had hoped for 30-50 entrants, but I wasn’t really sure … you…

The 2018 LEAP Awards celebrated the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space.   In the category of Additive manufacturing, the finalists were: 3D Systems Figure 4 HP Inc. Jet Fusion 300/500 Series …and the winner is: HP Inc. Jet Fusion 300/500 Series The judges commented: “There are so many aspects of…

AMETEK SMP Superior Tube, a leading manufacturer of small diameter precision metal tubing for the aerospace and defense industries as well as other sectors, has announced two successful reaccreditations from Nadcap, formerly known as the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program. Superior Tube met all Nadcap’s requirements based on the exacting standards around heat…

Emerson is reminding U.S. engineering students that the deadline for its 2019 ASCO Engineering Scholarship program is rapidly approaching and that the program will continue to accept applications through April 23, 2019. The program rewards students who have the potential for leadership and contributions to the engineering profession. Two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded to two U.S.…

Choi Design Inc. has been awarded First Place for the 2018 European Product Design Awards. The annual awards program “recognizes the efforts of talented designers and design teams who aim to improve our daily lives with a practical and beautiful creations, designed to solve a problem, make life easier or simply spread joy.” The award…

On December 11th, at the LEAP Awards dinner gala in Costa Mesa, Calif., the following companies were awards trophies in the 11 categories. In the category of Additive manufacturing, the finalists were: 3D Systems Figure 4 HP Inc. Jet Fusion 300/500 Series … and the winner is: HP Inc. Jet Fusion 300/500 Series The judges…

Two finalists were announced for the inaugural LEAP Awards’ Advanced Materials Category, comprising an intriguing array of new materials advances. The competition was scored by a panel of independent technical/engineering-oriented judges. Responsible for the Advanced Materials category were these 3 judges: Plamen Doynov, Research Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City Plamen Doynov became a research professor…

Motion Industries Inc. announced that Ellen Holladay, SVP and CIO, was named recipient of the 2018 PTDA Foundation’s Wendy B. McDonald Award.  “To encourage more women to enter the power transmission/motion control distribution industry, the Wendy B. McDonald Award celebrates the women who not only excel at what they do but also bring innovation to…

Today at 2:00 p.m., VP, Editorial Director Paul J. Heney and Senior Editor Lisa Eitel unveiled the much-anticipated finalists for the 2018 LEAP Awards. Between two and eight finalists were announced in each of the 11 categories: Additive Manufacturing Advanced Materials Connectivity Embedded Computing Fluid Power Industrial Automation Mechanical Motion Control Power Electronics Switches &…

Emerson today awarded the 2018 recipients of the annual ASCO Engineering Scholarships to Megan Krueger of Smithville, Missouri, and Dakota Kirtley of Zoarville, Ohio. Each student will receive $5,000 from Emerson to support their pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in engineering. The ASCO brand of fluid control and pneumatic technologies at Emerson established this merit-based…

The categories for this year’s inaugural LEAP Awards (Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program) are roughly divided across three of our flagship publications’ brands: Design World, Fluid Power World and EE World. These fourteen categories represent products and components across the engineering spectrum. Additive Manufacturing Advanced Materials Analog Electronics Connectivity Embedded Computing Fastening & Joining Hydraulics…

One of the many ways that our publication has helped our readers over the past dozen years has been to present new products across the mechanical and electrical engineering space. Even amongst the more mature corners of our coverage, there are constantly new and improved components being unveiled. We strive to bring you news about…

CDM Electronics, a premier authorized distributor of electronic connectors and cables, today announced it recently received Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems  (IDS) business’  4-Star Supplier Excellence Award for their performance throughout 2017.  The Supplier Excellence Award program recognizes suppliers that consistently deliver outstanding service and partnership in exceeding customer requirements. CDM had also been presented with the…

Laird was named a GM Supplier of the Year by General Motors during its 26th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony Friday, April 20, in Orlando, Florida. GM recognized 132 of its best suppliers from 17 countries that have consistently exceeded GM’s expectations, created outstanding value, or brought new innovations to the company. The…

Edmund Optics® (EO), the premier provider of optical components, has earned a 2018 “Top Workplaces” honor for a mid-size company in the greater Philadelphia region for the 9th year in a row. Almost 37,000 employees from 189 companies from the Philadelphia area were invited to participate in an anonymous survey conducted by WorkplaceDynamics. Participants were asked to…