AK Steel donates to Habitat

        AK Steel's germ-fighting coated steel will be used in air conditioning and heating ducts in a Habitat for Humanity home being built in Butler, Pa.

        This is the second home incorporating AK Steel's AgION coated steel that controls the growth of bacteria, mold and fungi. A concept home using the product is also under construction outside Los Angeles.

        For the Butler, Pa., project, Seal-Tite, a Hillsboro, Ohio, sheet metal duct and pipe maker, will use the AgION product to build the home's duct work. Installation begins this summer.

        AK Steel previously donated about $60,000 in steel construction materials for the Butler, Pa., home.
       

Setco finishes move of production to Delhi

        SETCO Sales Co., Delhi Township maker of lathe spindles and slides, is completing the transfer of production from its Master/SETCO plant in Hutchinson, Kan., this month.

        Moving of machining, engineering and manufacturing to SETCO's Hillside Avenue plant began earlier this year. A spokesman said the move won't mean additional hiring immediately at the Delhi plant, which employs about 100. The move comes in the midst of the slowdown in the machine tool market.

        “Despite what our competition is so anxious to make the marketplace believe, the Master/SETCO line is only moving to a new plant — it emphatically is not disappearing,” John Garratt, SETCO's president, said.

        SETCO's parent, CRL Industries, acquired the Master product line in 1996. The 65,000-square-foot Master plant in Kansas will be sold, officials said.
       

GE to build turbine for Navy Sealift

        Aeroderivative gas turbines produced at GE Aircraft Engines' Evendale plant will power the eighth and final Strategic Sealift ship built for the Navy by General Dynamics Co.'s National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. in San Diego.

        GEAE's marine engines' business has supplied LM2500 gas turbines and main reduction gears for each of the 950-foot-long Sealift ships, which have more than 390,000 square feet of cargo space.

        National Steel delivered the first Sealift ship in 1998. The final ship will be delivered this fall.
       

Tech leaders attend CIMx conference

        Managers from Boeing Co., GE Aircraft Engines, Visteon and Corning Cable Systems were among a variety of manufacturers attending Milford software maker CIMx's annual users conference recently.

        The managers discussed a variety of issues and solutions dealing with delivery lead times as well as reviewing enhancements to CIMx Apps, the company's manufacturing information software.
       

Seminars offered for area companies

       TechSolve, the manufacturing resource center, is offering two seminars for area companies.

        One on the benefits of high speed/high performance machining will be Thursday at 7:30 a.m. at the Bond Hill center.

        The second session on discovering new markets through exporting and industrial marketing will be June 5 at 11 a.m. also at TechSolve, off Paddock Road near Seymour Avenue and Interstate 75. For more information on either or both, contact Jennifer McClure at 513-948-2015.

        Contact Mike Boyer at 768-8494; fax 564-6991; or e-mail mboyer@enquirer.com.

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