consecutive month. Readings below 50 indicate contraction, while those above 50 indicate expansion. ME
Mergers & Acquisitions Stratasys Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) and
Objet Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) on Dec. 3 an- nounced the completion of their merger, forming a leader in 3D printing and direct digital manufacturing. The combined company will trade on the NASDAQ stock exchange as Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS).
Partnerships Infi nityQS International Inc. (Chantilly,
VA), a global authority on manufacturing intelligence and enterprise quality, on Nov. 27 announced a strategic part- nership with Keops Technologies Inc. (Montreal, Canada), a leading industry IT expert focused on integration and deployment of manufacturing operation management systems (MOM).
Openings
Dr. Masahiko Mori, president of Mori Seiki Co. Ltd. (Hoffman Es- tates, IL) on Nov. 7 cut the ribbon at Mori Seiki’s new 200,000 ft2 (18,580 m2) manufacturing factory in Davis, CA.
“In manufacturing the best machine tools possible, we are bringing to US manufacturing industries, the produc- tion hardware and software that will serve as the best example and role model of what can be accomplished by manufacturing technologies in our own plant,” Dr. Mori said. What’s more, at JIMTOF 2012, DMG / Mori Seiki reported that several other new facilities are planned or in progress,
Equipment and systems engineered for robust, reliable metal processing.
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including a plant in Seebach, Germany (with an estimated Oc- tober 2012 startup date); a new production facility in Tianjin, China (September 2013); and a planned production facility in Ulyanovsk, Russia (late 2013).