Energy & Environmental Technologies Inc. has been appointed to represent Pennsylvania Crusher Corp. in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Western Tennessee, and the Florida panhandle. EET conducts business in the power utility, pulp & paper, and cement industries.

Columbia/Okura has expanded its customer-service program to include a facility designed specifically for testing, training, and palletizing demonstrations. The new facility includes a fully operational robot cell, providing customers with hands-on training in a simulated manufacturing environment. The dedicated facility includes a robotic palletizer, an assortment of end effectors, a vacuum technology center, video recording aids, teleconferencing capabilities, and a computer projection machine for group training.

In 1943, The Alloy Engineering Co. was founded to supply alloy fabrications for high-temperature industrial applications. Having grown over the years, the company is now recognized as one of the industry's premier designers and fabricators of engineered, high-temperature, corrosion-resistant alloy components. A series of acquisitions — of TEI/Rolock and Walmil — during the past year have enhanced the company's ability to respond to customer needs. The company also designed CAD capability, which provides powerful 3-D functionality through solid modeling and allows for accurate generation of drawings and graphics.

Eugene, Ore.-based Precision Machine and Manufacturing, Inc. (PMM) announced that James and Colleen Miller have purchased the company from founders Jay and Rochelle Breaux. The former chief operating officer of Cascade Corp., a global manufacturing company based in Portland, Ore., James Miller cites PMM's line of products and its successful history as key reasons for the purchase. Miller said he has no plans to make major changes in the company operations and will concentrate initially on increasing sales. Founded in 1977 as a manufacturer of industrial materials handling systems and components including rotary valves, feeders and screw conveyors, PMM is known as the originator of the PMV Rotary Valve and the PMF Rotary Feeder, said to be the industry's first bolt-together products.

Philadelphia Gear Corp., a provider of gearing and power transmission solutions, announced the online availability of price quoting for replacement parts through the company's web site, www.philagear.com. Customers can request quotes at no cost via the web site's “Parts Quote” section. Streamlining the replacement parts ordering process and reducing customer downtime due to inoperable equipment, the system provides price quotes for Philadelphia Gear-designed parts and equipment as well as prices for gearbox parts manufactured by other companies. With over more than years of technical drawings and other proprietary information in inventory, company officials noted, Philadelphia Gear is able to handle customers' requests in a knowledgeable and timely fashion with this new system.