Twice a year, item International releases new products and innovative solutions based on customer feedback and ideas brought up over time.  Make sure you view our Spring 2010 New Products Brochure.  Inside, you will find innovative products used to interlink work benches, protective enclosures, and mechanical drives.  You will also find many new components that will allow you to enhance your designs... Heavy duty fasteners, ESD connectors, new accessories for roller conveyors just to name a few... 

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Lunar Surface Manipulation System
Field Tests at Moses Lake Washington

NASA may not plan to return to the moon for ten years, but that is not stopping them from conducting lunar expeditions.

This past June, research teams from seven NASA centers came together in Moses Lake Washington to conduct a two week long study on different mobility and payload handling activities that could take place in the lunar environment. Read more...

German-born duo finding success touting aluminum

By: Paula Schleis
Beacon Journal business writer

Eveline Nordhauss had spent two decades helping a German startup grow out of a garage into a multimillion-dollar enterprise when she realized she had gone as far as she could in a business that would never be hers.

No sector has experienced growth equal to that of the renewable energy industry.  The development of photovoltaics has become a particularly important sector of the economy.  German machine and system manufacturers produce approximately 50% of the production technique used around the world.  The pioneering spirit of the expanding sector as well as its innovative capacity and growing demand prompted a need for improved and more automated production facilities and equipment

item has been developing and distributing high quality components for production and assembly equipment for over 30 years.  From the very beginning item's primary goal was to reduce the cost of building machines by rationalizing machining and assembly operations and by standardizing components.

About item North America

Read about the history and origin of item North America. Get a quick overview of what item does best.

As the new school year gets underway, teams around the country are preparing to participate in F.I.R.S.T.’s Annual Robotics Competition. item can help your school’s team be successful. Below are four different packages to build your championship robot chassis. Read more...

item North America (MB Kit Systems) is celebrating ten years of business in North America. It's been ten years since Eveline and Michael Nordhauss chose Akron, Ohio as the North American headquarters for the item modular machine building system which has enjoyed unparallel success in Germany and surrounding European countries. The decision to choose Akron, Ohio was obviously a good one. In the past ten years, item has seen positive growth in the range of 15%-30% annually. This success stems from significant investment in engineering resources as well as a customer commitment found no where else in the industry. Significant highlights since the move to Akron include...