Donahue Industries, Inc. | A full service international metal components manufacturer
  • Grinding Wheel Industry
    • Abrasive Wheel Inserts
    • Cup Wheel (Spider) Bushings
    • Disc Wheel Inserts
    • Reducing Adapter Bushings
    • Reusable Adapter Kits
    • Safety Backs
    • Throw-away Mounting Flanges
    • Threaded Hex Inserts
  • Wire Rope Industry
    • Fractional Wire Rope Gauges
    • Metric Wire Rope Gauges
    • How To Use A Wire Rope Gauge
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Donahue Industries is a Massachusetts metal stamping company

2/29/2016

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Donahue Industries manufactures metal stampings. With decades of metal stamping experience, our tool room, manufacturing, and engineering staff meet customer expectations with product development, quality, service, and delivery.

Quality
Donahue Industries uses robust processes and controls to monitor, record, and ensure the quality and reliability of our manufacturing. Our awards for outstanding achievement in supplying products and services are a testament to our rigorous quality program based on the ISO standard.

Services
Donahue Industries is a leading international metal components manufacturer with strengths in:

Custom Product Engineering
Concept > Prototypes > Production, including bar coding capabilities and CAD designs and development. Using compound and progressive tooling, Donahue Industries manufactures metal components using services including:
  • Assembly
  • Bending
  • Blanking
  • Brazing
  • Embossing
  • Extruding
  • Finishing
  • Forming
  • Heat treating
  • Lettering
  • Plating
  • Punching
  • Rust proofing
  • ​Stamping
  • Swaging
  • Welding
Donahue Industries has the capability to supply such custom hardware as...
  • Brackets
  • Building hardware
  • Electronic components
  • Gaskets
  • Supports
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New Massachusetts initiative helps startups know what they need and how to connect with manufacturers

2/22/2016

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Spencer manufacturer FLEXcon needed to be able to mold thermal insulator powder into spacesuits. And Somerville startup Voxel8 can take almost any raw material and turn it into an ink for 3D printing after being exposed to a physical or chemical change. 

A partnership between the Worcester-based Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MassMEP) and Somerville startup incubator Greentown Labs made this win-win connection happen, according to reporter Laura Finaldi in her February 15, 2016 Worcester Business Journal article "Manufacturers helping to create statewide incubator." Called the Manufacturing Initiative, the program connects clean tech hardware startups housed at Greentown Labs with manufacturers across the state. The result: 33 startups connected with 86 Massachusetts manufacturers, resulting in 16 contracts for work. The ultimate program goal: products invented in Massachusetts get manufactured in Massachusetts.

The partnership came out of the need for startups to know what they need and know how to connect with manufacturers. Startups wouldn't know they go to different manufacturers for prototyping versus mass production.

When initiative's program manager Micaelah Morrill issued surveys for both manufacturers and startups, she found that the two industries don't understand each other. Morrill says that startups have people who graduate "from universities in Boston, but they may not be familiar with the rest of the state, I want them thinking about Worcester, Springfield, and North Adams before they think of China." But in many cases, manufacturing a product in Massachusetts hadn't even occurred to some startups.

"The real value here is we started a movement," said Peter Russo, program manager for growth and innovation at MassMEP. The program has received nationwide attention.
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Get stainless steel metric sheave gauges at plastic prices

2/15/2016

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We plan to introduce metric sheave gauge sets at plastic prices to give you the best prices available in the global market. We're figuring out what leaf sizes you need to create the tooling to stamp out the sets.
Tell us what leaf sizes you need
If you're looking for 500+ metric sheave gauges per year, email us at sales@donahueindustries.com. 

Have others sheave gauge needs? 
Give us a call: 508-845-6501 or email sales@donahueindustries.com.
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We're building a central Massachusetts partner network for product developers

2/8/2016

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We're teaming up with area manufacturers to provide startups and other product developers with a network of companies to create their products. Networking with area prototypers, plastic injection molders, and more, we plan to make the manufacturing process easier for area startups and product developers while increasing business for local manufacturers.
Partner with us
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A crane & rigger app for easy-to-use data at your fingertips

2/2/2016

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Riggers, there's an app out called Crane & Rigger that lets you:
  • Reference capacity charts on hundreds of rigging items
  • Calculate common rigging and load formulas
  • View the crane load chart
  • Browse the specification database of over 1,000 crane models
  • Use the mat calculators to help with proper crane matting

Features:
  • Ground pressure 
  • Volume 
  • Lifting Eye WLL Deductions 
  • Sling Angle
  • Sling Tension
  • Sling Deductions for "Choke Angle"
  • Sling Capacity Charts - Synthetic Slings, Wire Slings, Chain Slings, Chain
  • Hardware Capacity Charts - D-Rings, Shackles, Lifting Bars

Upgrade features:
  • Steel Pipe weight calculator
  • Steel Beam weight calculator
  • Object Density Reference - Cubic weight reference for hundreds of different materials
  • Crane Mat Calculators - Calculate Mat "Bending", "Shear", and "Ground Pressure" for Crawler and Mobile Cranes
  • Crane Range Calculator - Calculate reach, boom angle, and obstruction clearance
  • Crane Capacity Calculator - Calculate chart reductions, total load, and capacity percentage
  • Customizable daily crane tickets

Check out the app.
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4 great reasons why metal sheave gauges are better than plastic

2/2/2016

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Thinking about purchasing sheave gauges? Here are 4 great reasons why metal might be a better choice for you than plastic:
  1. You need durability. Metal is stronger than plastic and lasts longer.
  2. You need accuracy. Metal can stand up to warping more than plastic.
  3. You need great pricing. Considering plastic sheave gauges based on price? Metal sheave gauges cost around the same price as plastic gauges on the market.
  4. You need customers to better value your brand. Metal simply looks more pricey than plastic. Customers perceive it as better quality and durability.
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   Abrasive wheel inserts
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   Disc wheel inserts
   Reducing adapter bushings
   Reusable adapter kits
   Safety backs
   Throw-away mounting flanges
   Threaded hex inserts

Wire Rope Industry
   Fractional sheave gauges
   Metric sheave gauges
   How to use a sheave gauge
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Donahue Industries, Inc. is a full service international metal stamping manufacturer in Massachusetts specializing in parts for the grinding wheel and wire rope industries. 

Donahue Industries, Inc.
5 Industrial Drive
Shrewsbury, MA  01545-5835

Phone: (001) 508-845-6501
Fax: (001) 508-842-7665
sales@donahueindustries.com