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industry continues to thrive for generations. Trenton Forging Company has begun promoting skilled trades with presentations at local high schools, focusing on career options, available salaries, and other advantages to pursuing an alternative to traditional college. Our presentations have yielded a large and very actively engaged student audience. Additionally, we offer plant tours to those interested in the many skilled trades career paths offered at Trenton ForgingCompany. From designers and fabricators, programmers to hammermen, our hope is to showcase the craftsmanship, passion, and opportunity for growth within these career paths. In doing so, we feel we can do our part to ensure a deeply rooted level of interest in the forging industry for coming generations.

Our focus has always been and always will be to move outside the box to solve problems. Whether by attacking the skills gap head-on, or by finding creative ways to forge the “impossible” for our customers, Trenton Forging Company is up for the challenge. As we transition from a second generation family-owned business to a third generation, there is a lot of buzzing excitement about what the future holds. To stay up-to-date on the latest happenings, be sure tovisit our website www.trentonforging. comand followus on social media. Chelsea Lantto is the business operations manager at Trenton ForgingCompany.

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automotive and medical industries and provide reliable designs, lower cost and quicker implementation. With more than 100 models, Automated Cells & Equipment offers the widest range of industrial robots, including collaborative, material handling, painting/ coating and food grade robots, as well as robot controllers. The company’s equipment includes: • Burr-ACE-r

AutomatedCells &Equipment AutomatedCells&Equipment, aFujiAutomaticNumerical Control (FANCU) Robotic Certified Integrator, builds and installs customizable automated robotic systems and offers solutions for the manufacturing industry. They provide FANCU Robot support services, such as hands on training classes for the robot programming, service, repairs, 24-hour support coverage and complete mechanical/electrical designing, aswell as offering spare parts, programming and simulation services. The company’s products include robotic machine tending, which presentation methods include fixture, drawer, conveyor and workstocker; materials handling use rotary accumulation table and extruded aluminum belt conveyors to compliment customers’ material handling and automation needs; and the powder metal automation for mold press unload, sinter furnace load/ unload, coining press load/unload and sinter tray loading. These products are used within the aerospace,

• Robotic belt standmodel LXZ • Model 220 sizing press loader • Model 366mag unloader • Model 850work stocker • Model 696 inline brush deburr • Force control slidemodel FCS50 • Model 605Apress extraction robot • Model 100A furnace loader

In 2014, one of Automated Cells & Equipment’s FANCU robots, along with other equipment, helped Betts Industries Inc. of Warren Pennsylvania eliminate a

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