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Publications

CM&M's mission is to serve as a forum for the exchange of information in Canada's metalworking manufacturing industry, keeping manufacturers in touch with emerging technologies and the global and national changes that are shaping their industries.

CNC West is a regional magazine serving Western Metalworking Manufacturers

The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry.

Equip-Mart is the leading Industrial and Plant equipment magazine on the Internet.

Job Shop Technology (JST) magazine publishes articles of interest to outsourcing decision-makers, who are the customers and potential customers of North American job shops.

Machine Design provides a complete information source for design engineers. The magazine is edited by engineers for engineers. It is the only design publication that delivers a complete editorial package that includes the powerful how-to editorial, as well as technical news coverage, application case histories and personal, professional and management information.

Published by The Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the world's leading professional society serving the manufacturing industries.

A premiere North American metalworking information source, also publishing a variety of international manufacturing magazines.

Across-the-board, unbiased coverage of competing metal processes and industry trends.

Modern Plastics is a credible and respected information company serving the worldwide plastics industry?including metal service centers, OEM and fabricators.

Search PlasticsNews.com for : Breaking news, More news, E-business, Story archives, Opinion, Special reports, Datebook, Product news, and Classifieds.

Online machinery listings, a national dealer directory, machinery auctions, links to advertisers and industry leaders, industry events, and current and past issues of the magazine SHOP TALK, help users get machinery in front of buyers and sellers.

Tooling & Production is a monthly magazine dedicated to manufacturing in the metalworking industries. It provides managers with reliable work-a-day solutions in the form of reports on leading-edge technologies, product developments, shop floor applications, and business trends.

A monthly publication that delivers a complete high-impact editorial package including technical and how-to articles, application case histories, training, safety, and managerial topics

Each issue contains dozens of new products, overviews of burgeoning technology, and application stories that apply to readers' own experience.

Practical Welding Today offers useful tips for GTAW, GMAW, FCAW, SMAW, plasma cutting, oxyfuel welding and cutting, brazing, soldering, resistance welding, as well as updates on newer welding technologies. It also includes regular safety and management columns and handy buyers' guides for the latest welding and cutting equipment from top OEMs.

The first magazine to devote 100% of its editorial to metal stamping, with readers worldwide interested in the  metal stamping industry's latest techniques, news, and ideas.

The first magazine dedicated to serving the metal tube and pipe industry and the only U.S. publication devoted to this industry.

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Associations

The Aluminum Association, Inc. is the trade association for producers of primary aluminum, recyclers and semi-fabricated aluminum products. Member companies operate almost 200 plants in the U.S. and many conduct business worldwide.

The Aluminum Extruders Council is an international association dedicated to helping manufacturers, engineers, architects and others to discover why aluminum extrusion is "the better material process for better products."

The American Foundry Society was founded in 1896 and has grown to an international organization of approximately 13,000 members in 47 countries. AFS assists member companies and individuals to effectively and efficiently manage all production operations, to profitably market their products and services, and to equitably manage their employees.

Since its founding in 1916, AGMA has grown, prospered and redefined its role in the American gear industry. There are 400 members in more than 30 countries

The association provides leading-edge information about the plastics industry for plastics industry professionals.

The American Welding Society (AWS) was founded in 1919 to advance the science, technology and application of welding and related joining disciplines.

AMTDA, in its 76th year of service, provides members with a dynamic array of educational programs, marketing management data and business services necessary to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage in the machine tool distribution industry.

The Association of Iron and Steel Engineers is the largest member-based technical organization in the steel industry?worldwide. Dedicated to the advancement of technical and engineering phases of the production and processing of iron and steel.

For over ninety years AMT has been dedicated to supporting and enhancing the activities of American manufacturers. The association's full-time staff of over 70 works on a wide variety of programs, publications, seminars and services, all designed to put AMT's 360+ member companies in the vanguard of industrial technology

The Association of Rotational Molders (ARM) is an international trade association currently representing member companies in 57 countries. Members include manufacturers of rotationally molded plastic products, suppliers to the industry, designers, and professionals.

The association sponsors North America's largest metal forming and fabricating event.

The Forging Industry Association (FIA), is a corporate membership association comprised of approximately 150 forging producers operating over 200 forge plants in North America.

The International Association of Machinists (IAMAW) union is active in more than 200 industries, and provides information on workers' rights, statistics, congressional contacts, voting records, press releases and labor news.

The Industrial Distribution Association is the world's largest trade association of distributors to industry, representing more than 1800 locations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Formed in 1988 by a merger of three North American regional associations, I.D.A.'s activities focus on all areas critical to managing a distributorship. These include operations, sales and marketing, human resources, quality, technology, finance and customer service.

With 39,000 members in 110 countries around the globe, ISA brings the best and brightest in the field together into the single largest source of instrumentation, systems, and automation technology and information in the world.

The Job Shop Network is the world's largest contract manufacturing web resource.

The Machinery Dealers National Association (MDNA) is a nonprofit trade association whose members buy and sell used capital equipment. Established in 1941 to assure buyers of the integrity and reliability of used machinery dealers that are members of the association, the association represents nearly 500 member companies around the world.

For more than a century, the National Association of Manufacturers has played a unique role in promoting a strong manufacturing economy and economic growth, resulting in higher living standards for American employees.

The National Tooling and Machining Association represents the precision custom manufacturing industry in the US. There are over 2500 members who design and manufacture special tools, dies, molds, jogs, fixtures, gages, special machines, and precision machined parts.

The NADCA mission is to continue as the worldwide leader in stimulating growth and improvement in the die casting industry. The association has 39 chapters across the US.

PMPA - The Precision Machined Products Association has been directly linked to the Industry since its inception in 1933, as the NSMPA - National Screw Machine Products Association.

The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) is a full-service trade association representing the $41 billion metalforming industry of North America. It has nearly 1,600 member companies that include metal stampers, fabricators, spinners, slide formers and roll formers, as well as suppliers of equipment, materials and services to the industry.

SME is the world's leading professional society serving the manufacturing industries. Through its publications, expositions, professional development resources and member programs, SME influences more than 500,000 manufacturing executives, managers and engineers. SME has some 60,000 members in 70 countries and supports a network of hundreds of chapters worldwide.

ASM International is the society for materials engineers and scientists dedicated to advancing industry, applications, and applications of metals and materials.

The Steel Alliance has more than 120 companies representing the steel industry in the United States and Canada. Its members account for more than 75 percent of U.S. and Canadian annual steel shipments and include the largest producers in both countries.

The association represents more than 1600 Chicago area precision metalworking, plastic molding, and supplier companies.

The association helps you find everything you need to know about existing and emerging technologies in the tube and pipe industry. A member of the Croydon Group, Ltd., who publish TPJ - The Tube & Pipe Journal, The FABRICATOR, Stamping Journal, and Practical Welding Today.

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