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The search has begun for exceptional Ontario employers who are helping to build tomorrow's skilled workforce by training new apprentices. Each year, the Minister's Awards for Apprenticeship Training honours employers for their commitment to training apprentices. The awards celebrate those that support the apprenticeship training system, show leadership in training apprentices, and promote careers in the skilled trades. Nominations are being accepted until Feb. 29, 2012. The announcement was made at automatic greasing systems specialist FLO Components' Mississauga, Ont., facility, with Glen Murray, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, and Mississauga-Brampton South MPP Amrit Mangat in attendance. FLO Components was…

Exporting and export-ready manufacturers in Southern Ontario can learn how to access up to $75,000 in financial support for product and process improvements at a series of regional workshops, hosted this February by Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME). These free workshops will connect companies with the information and resources necessary to take advantage of $18.9 million in new funding through CME's SMART Prosperity Now program. "The nature of business is now global and Canadian manufacturers must have the right tools to be competitive," explains Ian Howcroft, vice president, CME Ontario. "This initiative will allow small and medium-sized enterprises to commercialize…

Question: “We recently received a shipment of L10-rated bearings. Can you explain the meaning of the L10 designation?” Rotating-element bearing manufacturers measure reliability using a “load–life” calculation rating known as the L10 rating life. To achieve this rating, the manufacturer assumes the bearing will be run in a clean operating environment that provides an adequate lubricant film (adequate described as a film equal to, or greater than, the composite roughness of the two mating surfaces) of the correct viscosity for the designed maximum bearing speed and operating temperature ratings. The L10 rating is given to bearings manufactured with cleaner, degassed…

Lind Equipment has appointed Calgary-based ElectriXwest Agencies as its electrical sales agent in Alberta. ElectriXwest Agencies will continue to build Lind Equipment’s presence in Alberta and serve electrical distributors’ demands for high quality, fairly priced portable electrical equipment for the toughest workplaces. Using a combination of outside sales to demonstrate Lind’s products to end-users and distributors, and a strong background in technical specification to work with engineers, ElectriXwest is well poised to help Alberta to Work Confidently with Lind Equipment’s products.   “We are very excited to have the ElectriXwest Agencies team as our partner in Alberta,” said Brian Astl,…