DAPR Day
College candidates being considered for full-time hire joined us at Re:Build DAPR for a fun day filled with team and individual engineering challenges, Volleypong, and excellent food! Candidates left with an understanding of what it is truly like to work at Rebuild: DAPR. Thank you to all that attended and those who helped to make this unique and exciting day possible.
Fikst Day
Our team works hard and plays hard! See what we mean by looking at some photographs from our recent Fikst Day.
Jeff Wilke Podcast Interview
Wilke had been at Amazon for more than 20 years, and had seen it grow from a modest-sized bookseller to a worldwide behemoth. But Wilke believes the American economy — and national security — is dependent on luring manufacturing back to our shores.
Miles Arnone – Good Day, CAMX
CAMX Day 2 kicks off at 8 a.m. in the Anaheim Convention Center Ballroom, Level 3 with “Good Day, CAMX,’ a discussion panel highlighting innovations and collaborative efforts enabling next-generations, aerospace-certified thermoplastic composite structures.
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.
