Technical Articles & News

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- New vehicle registrations in Wisconsin are nearly half of what they were in 2000.

Registrations dropped 46 percent -- a hit that's felt well beyond the state's auto dealerships.

Thousands of jobs have disappeared as auto plants and their suppliers deal with the fractured auto industry.

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StampingSimulation will be exhibiting at Fabtech November 2-4 2010

Exposure to New Prospects and Markets in the Southeast
Returning to Atlanta in 2010, FABTECH, AWS Welding & METALFORM will bring together more than 1,000 exhibiting companies covering more than 350,000 sq. feet of high-traffic selling space, with access to over 22,000 motivated buyers from across the U.S. and around the globe.

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StampingSimulation.com will be exhibiting at MetalForm Mexico May 11-13 2010.

PMA Mexico is the leading source for information, education, and networking to improve your precision metalforming business and advance the industry. PMA has nearly 1,200 member companies in North America, including Mexico, that manufacture precision metal parts and assemblies and supply products and services to the industry. PMA provides seminars, training resources, and management information data designed specifically to meet the needs of metalforming companies. PMA publishes MetalForming magazine twice a year in Spanish for distribution in Mexico, in addition to the 12 copies per year published in English, for global distribution. MetalForming magazine provides useful and valuable technical information for metal stamping and fabricating companies.

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A company that is building a flying car could produce the vehicles in Dayton. The chief executive of Terrafugia Inc. said the company has had “discussions” about moving production to Dayton, but he said he had no announcement Tuesday, Feb. 16. According to published reports, the company is weighing a $4.4 million offer to move to Dayton.

“We’ve gotten more interest from Ohio than we’ve gotten from Massachusetts,” Carl Dietrich, CEO of Terrafugia, told the Dayton Daily News.

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Electric bus maker Proterra Inc. could create as many as 2,600 jobs in Greenville over the next seven years -- double the 1,300 it has promised state officials -- if overseas business materializes as expected, the company's chief executive officer said. And that doesn't include thousands of other jobs that Chief Executive Officer Jeff Granato expects will be generated in South Carolina by companies supplying parts for the plant Proterra formally announced last Thursday.

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