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In June 2019, tens of millions of Facebook users watched and shared a viral video that purported to demonstrate “16 easy tests” to determine whether certain foods and drinks were “fake” or “real.”

Fifteen years later, his hard work has paid off. Ross has built a respectable reputation for Form Factory and has expanded his team to include a model maker, a maintenance helper, a bookkeeper and added a total of three CNC machines to the shop. Form Factory’s customers have come to expect the quality and ingenuity that Ross’ team always delivers. “A lot of shops really are geared toward pallet changers and automation and ripping through material as fast as possible. We really specialize in low volume and creativity,” Ross said.

Today, land-grant breeders are an endangered species. (Many have been replaced by plant scientists studying the genome, supporting the next generation of genetic tinkering like Crispr — often at the expense of classical plant breeding research.) Hundreds of programs have been whittled down to single digits for each crop. Onions are down to three land-grant breeders. Sweet corn has two.

This is another canard. Every so often, for the best part of the past decade, highly questionable and thinly sourced reports have been emerging from China and other Asian countries, as well as parts of Africa, claiming widespread adulteration of rice with plastic. So far, no reliable corroboration of those claims exists, which have caused panic in some countries and have been confirmed as hoaxes.

“Having invited Thame Workholding’s sales engineer, Tony Lewis to visit our site he recommended an effective workholding solution for a series of soon to be manufactured thin walled parts with challenging specifications. This is Thame Workholding’s InoTop jaw system which proved to be the perfect solution for securely holding our thin walled parts without causing deformation and for achieving the best possible roundness results. In addition, the use of the InoTop jaw system speeded-up production in this potentially problematic area.

Houston, TX (June 6, 2019) – CNC machining Trace-A-Matic Corporation has installed two Toyoda FA1050S heavy-duty horizontal centers in Plant 2 at their Houston, TX location. The identically configured centers feature 60HP – 6,000 RPM geared-head spindles, high pressure through spindle cooling, magazines holding 120 tools, and high capacity chip augers. The machine design allows machining of large, heavy workpieces with very high accuracy. Trace-AMatic South’s operation consists of three 25,000-square-foot facilities with Plant 2 serving as a focus factory manufacturing fluid ends used in hydraulic fracturing applications. The newly installed equipment represents the fifth machining cell to manage fluid end demands and provides an additional 20 percent monthly capacity.

“We directed them to our 8700-3 Series fiber laser welding workstation which provides high-peak power and optimal performance and throughput,” Paresky says. “The fiber laser source on the 8700-3 has a permanently sealed design that protects against dust and dirt, which sometimes is an issue in a job shop environment.”

In late May, the Nasdaq-listed Flex reportedly asked its factory workers in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, to take one week off after it decided to suspend its contract manufacturing services for Huawei.

The company was founded by Roy Dietsch, Steve Kotlowski and Jimmy Crawford. Dietsch and Crawford are still with the company as CEO and COO, respectively.

The WPIC expects platinum’s surplus to narrow 44% this year to 375,000 ounces, with investment being the main driver. Johnson Matthey is more optimistic, forecasting the market to flip into a 127,000-ounce deficit, also helped my a small recovery in demand from the auto sector.

A new test program now shows that M-Steel can offer particular benefits in hard part turning, as Göran Nyström, executive vice-president group marketing and technology at Ovako explains.

“Like in that game, we discovered pretty quickly that players really like the shots where you charge it up a lot and manage to angle it so you can ricochet around, hit a lot of stuff, do a lot of damage,” he says. “They find that more fun than just a regular precision shot. It’s just more satisfying.”