Announcements/New Products

Thermoplastics Creates Alliance With Eco Bio Plastics Midland

WHITMORE LAKE ? Thermoplastics compounder has formed a strategic alliance with Eco Bio Plastics Midland to use EBPM's patent-protected technology that incorporates ground paper as a reinforcement in plastics. This results in an environmentally friendly bio-plastic that reduces the use of fossil-based materials and carbon dioxide emissions. It also helps reduce component part weight, while

By |2013-10-28T00:00:00-04:00October 28th, 2013|Announcements/New Products, Archive|

MIPRO Consulting Hires PeopleSoft Practice Manager

MILFORD - MIPRO Consulting has hired Roland Butvilofsky as PeopleSoft Practice Manager. With more than 20 years of enterprise resource planning experience, Butvilofsky will be responsible for all Supply Chain Management program activities, as well as day-to-day oversight and management of project consultants in SCM, Asset Lifecycle Management and Maintenance Management. Butvilofsky will also work

By |2013-10-24T00:00:00-04:00October 24th, 2013|Announcements/New Products, Archive|

Merit Lights Up 3000 Foot Segment Of 10Gbs Fiber-Optic In Northern Michigan

ANN ARBOR - Merit Network engineers have completed a 3,000 foot-long segment of fiber-optic network on the edge of Alpena and have lit a 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) network connection between Alpena and Powers. Lit by ADVA optical networking equipment, the dense wavelength division multiplexing fiber-optic connection goes from Alpena west to Gaylord, then north to

By |2013-10-24T00:00:00-04:00October 24th, 2013|Announcements/New Products, Archive|

CAR Wins $1.5 Million Grant To Study Intersection Of Autos And Agriculture

ANN ARBOR - Michigan, home to the greatest concentration of automotive production and innovation in North America, is also a national leader in agriculture, ranking second in bio-diversity of agricultural products. The Center for Automotive Research will be the lead in a recently funded project focused on the intersection of these two sectors. CAR, along

By |2013-10-24T00:00:00-04:00October 24th, 2013|Announcements/New Products, Archive|

Walsh College Economic Sentiment Survey Reveals Cautiously Optimistic On Economic Outlook

TROY - Walsh College alumni continue to see Michigan?s longer-term economic prospects on an upward trend since 2011, yet express caution when compared to the country as a whole. National economic sentiment has been marked by volatility since 2011, but has improved nearly 50 percent over the last 12 months, according to preliminary findings of

By |2013-10-24T00:00:00-04:00October 24th, 2013|Announcements/New Products, Archive|

LLamasoft Introduces The K2 Enterprise Supply Chain Design Platform

ANN ARBOR ? Llamasoft has released K2 Enterprise, a new technology platform, offered both on-premise or on-demand in the cloud, that elevates supply chain modeling and design from a personal workstation to an enterprise-wide collaborative design and knowledge management environment. Developed to support supply chain design centers of excellence and global design teams, K2 Enterprise

By |2013-10-22T00:00:00-04:00October 22nd, 2013|Announcements/New Products, Archive|

SME Education Foundation Welcomes Four New Members To Board of Directors

DEARBORN - The SME Education Foundation announced the election of four new members to its Board of Directors. Joining the Board are Gwen Malone, Jennifer McNelly, Karla Middlebrooks and Roy Sweatman. ?I am excited to welcome our new Board members to the SME Education Foundation,? said Chief Executive Officer Bart A. Aslin. ?They bring us

By |2013-10-22T00:00:00-04:00October 22nd, 2013|Announcements/New Products, Archive|