Category: Company Press

• Alpha Professional Tools® adds Oscar Soltero to the Oakland, N.J.-based company’s sales team. He will be responsible for Northern California and the Reno/Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. • Vince Pompo joins Ceramic Tile...

• Superior Stone Equipment forms a partnership with supplier Keystone Tools to be a distributor for the Byron Center, Mich., company’s Force 5000 bridge saw. Keystone is a supplier of products for the marble...

Habitat for Humanity of Orange County honored Custom® Building Products for its $160,000 donation to the housing charity’s Operation Home Delivery. The program is rebuilding homes in the Gulf Coast region that were destroyed...

OMAX Corp. recently announced the sale and delivery of its 1,000th waterjet machine, a Model 55100 JetMachining® Center. “With the delivery of our 1,000th unit, OMAX has marked a significant milestone in the waterjet...

Superior Stone Equipment forms a partnership with supplier Keystone Tools to be a distributor for the Byron Center, Mich., company’s Force 5000 bridge saw. Keystone is a supplier of products for the marble and...

Hard Rock Tool opens a new service center and retail store in San Diego. The 3,200 ft(2) store at 8150 Miramar Road for the Anaheim, Calif.-based distributor joins the existing lineup of outlets in...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – KMT (Karolin Machine Tool AB) acquired Houston-based Aqua-Dyne, a manufacturer of high-pressure waterjet systems and accessories, early last month for $10 million.

 The acquisition gives KMT access to a new growing market segment with significant potential, according to the company, and will create synergies with KMT Waterjet Systems Inc. of Baxter Springs, Kan. Aqua-Dyne will be a part of the Waterjet Cutting Product Area for the Stockholm-based waterjet, grinding and cutting implements company.

ORLANDO – If Coverings is any indication of Salem Stone’s progress, the company’s doing just fine.

 At a press conference at the end of the event’s first day, Mike Willard, Salem sales/marketing vice president, noted that the Winston-Salem, N.C., company toted up $3 million in sales at last year’s event, and business was brisk for Coverings 2006.  

• FinishPro Tools LLC of Lenexa, Kan., acquired the Goldblatt and Pacesetter masonry-tool brands from The Stanley Works in early March. Stanley originally acquired Goldblatt in 1992; FinishPro will incorporate the line through the...

• Custom® Building Products opens a new, 112,000 ft² state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Las Vegas to serve the Arizona, Nevada and Utah markets. It’s the 11th U.S. manufacturing facility for the Seal Beach, Calif.-based...