Star SU, Louis Bélet partner

Cutting tool and gear tool providers Star SU, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, and Louis Bélet, Vendlincourt, Switzerland, are partnering to enhance each company’s product portfolio and expand collective reach within the Americas and Europe.

David Goodfellow, president Star SU, says, “This agreement enables us to provide even more innovative solutions in the micro mechanics field, where Louis Bélet is well-known.”

Roxane Piquerez and Arnaud Maître, Bélet co-CEOs, say, “We look forward to strengthening our gear offering given Star SU’s strong presence and know-how within the field of gear cutting tools and machines.”

Drills, end mills, thread and gear cutting tools including hobs or skiving tools for micro gears are among the solutions Louis Bélet provides. (See image above.)

Star SU LLC offers machinery, precision cutting tools, and services including vertical gear hobbing machines, chamfering and deburring machines and tools, gear hobs and milling cutters, power skiving tools, form tools, face mills, and boring tools.

Molded Dimensions acquires GlobalTech Plastics

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Molded Dimensions, a manufacturer and supplier of custom rubber and urethane molded parts, acquired GlobalTech Plastics in Fife, Washington.

GlobalTech Plastics, a certified AS9100 and ISO 9001:2015 plastic-injection molding company, specializes in the aerospace, medical, and transportation industries.

Appointments

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The Camozzi Machine Tool (CMT) group, consisting of Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. (IMT) Rockford, Illinois, and Innse Berardi, Brescia, Italy, appointed IMT CEO Chip Storie to CMT Group Executive. Jeff Ahrstrom, Ingersoll’s COO, has been named IMT president and CEO.

CNC automation builder and software developer Fastems named Nathan Turner president of its Fastems LLC U.S. operations in West Chester, Ohio. Turner brings more than 30 years of automation experience to this role expansion. He’ll oversee Fastems’ sales, engineering, and support teams in North, Central, and South America.

Connecticut-based Columbia Manufacturing Inc. (CMI), a supplier of precision metal components for domestic and international turbine engines, named Dan Lam, engineering manager, and Leo Ostrawski, senior manufacturing engineer.

Lam joins CMI with more than 35 years of aerospace experience, including 14 years at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.

Ostrawski has more than 15 years of aerospace engineering experience in production engines as well as overhaul and repair.

Specialty Silicone Products (SSP), Ballston Spa, New York, promoted Adam Stiles to COO. He led the company’s sales and marketing efforts since 2010 and became SSP’s vice president in 2020. As COO, Stiles will continue to lead the sales, marketing, and long-term strategic efforts as well as manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain.

Mark Loeben, a retired U.S. Air Force Major General and currently a captain with American Airlines, was appointed chairman of the National Aerospace Research & Technology Park (NARTP), in Atlantic County, New Jersey. NARTP, which adjoins the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center at Atlantic City International Airport, supports tenants leading research in unmanned aerial systems/advanced air mobility.