How small manufacturers can partner to form a virtual OEM

Collaborating ideas, resources can help companies compete with market giants

By Shahrukh A. Irani

In the “Editor’s Corner” in the February 2025 issue of The Fabricator, Dan Davis wrote that two industry sectors – the information technology sector’s need for data farms and the energy sector’s need for electricity grids to power them – have created ample business growth opportunities for metal fabricators.


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