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Magnetic Filter Puts a Brake on Fines
This magnetic separator Magnetic Products removes fines from a drilling operation and automatically feeds the fluids back into the integrated reservoir tank for fewer messy, oily pools around machinery, improved coolant recovery and reduced fluid replacement costs.
Gilman USA Adds Kacey Enterprises for Sales Support in Upper Midwest
The manufacturer of customized slides and spindles adds an outside sales representative to cover Northern Illinois, Northwest Indiana, Iowa, most of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Spindle Repair: The New Way to Save Money
If a spindle on one of your machines fails tomorrow, what’s your backup plan? Can you afford to wait several weeks to receive a new spindle? Spindle repair is another option that many companies are now considering.
Anodizer Puts Brakes on Weakest Link
New oil shear brake technology from Force Control Industries eliminates crane downtime and maintenance for this high volume anodizer.
Safe Travels for Large CNC Lathe
Machine tool manufacturer Tornos Gurutzpe S.A. was one of first to implement a new horizontal guiding cable carrier system from igus designed to stop metal chips from causing abrasion and wear on large machines with extremely long travel cable carrier applications.
Vibration Analysis with an iPad
The iPad Vibration Analysis System from GTI Spindle Technologies can email complete reports, data and notes that include RMS, peak values, machine pictures, severity plots and custom drawings by the user.
Expanding MPI Builds for Future
To accommodate its recent expansion and projected growth, the company hired a new director of operations and added a Western region sales manager to its growing sales team.
Dorner Manufacturing Aims South of the Border
A new sales manager is hired to work with sales channel partners and key accounts and grow business in the industrial and sanitary conveyor sectors throughout Mexico.
Magnetic, Non-Magnetic Material Handling Systems
These magnetic and non-magnetic conveyors from Magnetic Products provide positive control of ferrous and nonferrous metal stampings, turnings, chips, fasteners and scrap.
Mist Collection for Lathes, Grinders, Machining Centers
These centrifugal mist collectors and modular static filters from Losma are ideal mist collection systems for all kinds of machine tools, from small lathes and grinding machines to the largest machining centers.
Chips and Fines Filtration/Removal from Machine Tools
These new conveyors for metal cutting machine tool chip removal from Jorgensen Conveyors are designed specifically to handle heavy chip loads and large stringy chips and balls of chips generated in milling and turning applications where high work piece stock removal rates exist.
Integrated Plant-Wide Process Controls
From individual control panels to plant-wide centralized process control, Vecoplan Integrated Controls serves machinery importers with control panels that meet all applicable North American codes and regulations and OEMs looking to add some touch screen “sales dazzle” to their machine controls.
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