Collaborative Design for the Win in Creating Inclusive Products
For 5 years, Tekna has partnered with Michigan Design Council’s Design Prize in collaboration with K-12 students, tackling a design challenge that combats societal issues linked to Michigan and beyond. This year’s challenge was to inspire healthy exercise for K-12 students. The inspired team to tackle this challenge was made up of Branch Area Career Center 11th grade students Caleb Jones, Steven Covell and Brianna Omo with educator lead, Marvin Gage. From Tekna, Kyle Spieker and Tony De Leo provided guidance and insights from an Industrial Design perspective.
Expanding Industrial Design Capabilities through the Acquisition of Tekna, Inc.
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce the acquisition of Tekna Solutions, Inc. (Kalamazoo, MI), significantly expanding Re:Build’s design, engineering, and manufacturing service offering as part of the Re:Build Total Production Solutions Group. Tekna (https://teknateam.com) is an ISO 13485, full-service product development firm and contract manufacturer. Originally founded in 1988, Tekna delivers on its Innovation to Realization™ strategy by offering customers a wide range of world-class services including research, strategy, design, branding, engineering, and manufacturing to create and deliver meaningful solutions. Now part of Re:Build, the company will be able to expand its reach in healthcare and other industries.
Re:Build Manufacturing Announces the Acquisition of Fikst
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce the acquisition of Fikst, significantly expanding Re:Build’s engineering, product development, and prototyping capabilities within its Engineering Services Group of companies. Fikst (https://www.fikst.com/) operates a consulting business in Woburn, MA focused on product development, mechanical engineering, and prototyping solutions for the biotechnology, medical, and industrial markets. Founded in 2005 by brothers Paul and Doug Sabin, Fikst has quickly grown to become a premier provider of concept-to-manufacture consultancy services and has cultivated an industry-wide reputation for its competency in mechanical engineering, micro- and milli-fluidics, and product development within burgeoning markets, such as gene therapy, diagnostics, and cellular therapy.
Acquisition of Optimation Technology
Rochester, NY — Re:Build Manufacturing announced the acquisition of Optimation Technology (Rochester, NY) significantly expanding and adding capabilities to their Total Production Solutions group. Optimation Technology (https://www.optimation.us/) provides complete engineering, design, fabrication, and installation of processing equipment and factory automation for a variety of industries. Optimation executes each project with high quality workflows, integrated cross-disciplinary teams, and world class professionals. They can apply their expertise at any stage of an existing project or take an idea from concept to completion. Optimation’s core competency is the design of large-scale automation and complete plants across a broad set of industries, with expertise in chemical process design, web processing, material handling, assembly, and filling processes.
Re:Build Manufacturing Acquires DAPR, Enhances Onshoring with Advanced Engineering Support
Nashua, NH — DAPR Engineering expands capabilities and speed of Re:Build Engineering Services group, develop industrial automation and process equipment. On Aug. 4, Re:Build Manufacturing (Framingham, Mass., U.S.) acquired DAPR Engineering (Nashua, N.H., U.S.) which significantly expands and adds capabilities to the company’s Engineering Services group. This follows the acquisitions of Cutting Dynamics Inc. (CDI, Avon, Ohio, U.S.) in May 2021, composites fabricator Composite Resources (Rock Hill, S.C., U.S.) in March 2021 and Oribi Manufacturing (Commerce City, Colo., U.S.) in late 2020.
Re:Build Manufacturing Continues to Expand Advanced Materials Group with the Acquisition of Wonder Machine Services, Inc.
Framingham, MA — Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce the acquisition of Wonder Machine Services Inc., located in Avon, OH. Wonder Machine will be a cornerstone of Re:Build’s continued expansion in aerospace, defense, high-performance industrial, and consumer product market segments. Founded in 1976, Wonder Machine is the most recent addition to Re:Build Manufacturing’s Advanced Material Group. Over the last 45 years, Wonder Machine has built significant process knowledge and capacity to produce high-tolerance machine components in a dedicated, AS9100 accredited facility. Wonder Machine specializes in precision CNC machining, CNC milling, turning, and prototyping, with a particular knowledge base developed around ultra-high-tolerance components for mission critical applications, and supporting multi-year, volume production programs. Wonder Machine will operate as a part of Re:Build CDI, a diversified manufacturer of metallic and composite components and assemblies, also located in Avon, OH.
Oribi Awarded 2021 Colorado Manufacturing Award
Denver, Colorado — The 2021 Colorado Manufacturing Awards recognizes outstanding companies and people shaping American manufacturing, in a region emerging as a model for a new, dynamic sector. Winners were announced last week in the sixth annual Colorado Manufacturing Awards at a virtual event co-hosted by CompanyWeek and Manufacturer’s Edge Colorado’s NIST-sponsored Manufacturing Extension Partner. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) shared video messages with the winners during the ceremony. With 14 categories and more than 40 finalists, this year’s CMAs were the biggest yet. CompanyWeek Publisher Bart Taylor also noted the participation of nearly 25 judges, many of them previous CMA finalists and winners. “The thoughtfulness of the deliberations was impressive,” he said of the judging process. “As they are every year, the judges were a highlight.”
Re:Build Manufacturing Accelerates Onshoring with the Acquisition of Cutting Dynamics, Inc.
Framingham, MA — Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce the acquisition of Cutting Dynamics, Inc. (Avon, OH), significantly expanding Re:Build’s product and service offering as part of the Re:Build Advanced Materials Group. Cutting Dynamics Inc. (CDI) is an AS9100 certified manufacturing business that brings over 35 years of experience in design, engineering and production of metallic and thermoplastic composite structures and assemblies, with a strong emphasis on the aerospace, defense and industrial markets; CDI’s capabilities are a strong complement to the other Re:Build Advanced Materials Group product and service offerings, which already include high-rate thermoplastic composite components (https://www.oribicomposites.com/) and advanced thermoset structures and assemblies (http://composite-resources.com/). The convergence of these brands brings a unique mix of product and service offerings in fabricated structures together with a highly customer-centric culture and organization.
Oribi, Part of Re:Build Manufacturing
Commerce City, CO — On behalf of Oribi Composites, we are excited to announce that we are now a part of Re:Build Manufacturing, effective immediately.Re:Build Manufacturing, headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, is an industrial manufacturing group that is investing in both new technologies and conventional manufacturing businesses, with the goal of rebuilding America’s manufacturing base and creating meaningful, sustainable jobs in segments that have been de-industrialized over time. Re:Build is privately owned, and is focused on a long term, ‘buy and build’ approach over many years. As such, Oribi Composites customers can expect the only changes made to the business will be for the better, and will be made to expand Oribi Composites already well established team and capabilities. Other businesses with Re:Build Manufacturing today include Composite Resources which produces composite structure for a wide range of markets using various material and process combinations, and The Pilot Group, which specializes in design, engineering and fabrication of specialized machinery, automation systems, control systems and electronics. We are happy to share information on these businesses with you anytime.
Re:Build Manufacturing Acquires Composite Resources
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing (Framingham, MA, U.S.) reported on March 2 that it has acquired composites fabricator Composite Resources (Rock Hill, S.C., U.S.). Composite Resources produces composite parts and structures for the aerospace, defense, space, industrial and automotive end markets. This follows Re:Build’s acquisition in late 2020 of thermoplastic composites specialist Oribi Manufacturing (Commerce City, Colo., U.S.). Composite Resources and Oribi will operate within the Re:Build Composites business unit. Steve Mead, president of Re:Build Composites, says Re:Build is all about a “buy and build” approach over time. As such, Mead says, “We are investing for growth and anticipate that the only changes we make at Composite Resources will be for the better, and will be made to expand CR’s already well-established team and capabilities,” Mead says.