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Precision Machining Industry Outlook: You Should be Bullish, Too

To sustain our businesses successfully, we need to intelligently manage risk, but for too many years, we have been conditioned by the market and the federal government to hunker down and try to avoid all risk.

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United Grinding Announces Strategic Consolidation

United Grinding North America has announced a strategic move for continued growth, closing its Fredericksburg office on July 1 and moving those operations to the Miamisburg, Ohio, headquarters.

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Gardner Business Index: Precision Machining, May 2017 - 55.6

Given the large delta between prices received and input costs, it may only be a matter of time before rising input costs are passed along to machine consumers.

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Rotary Transfer Moves Forward

“Beyond One And Done” looks at how the use of newer technologies has changed the traditional application of rotary transfer technology in production shops.

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Good News from the Employment-Population Ratio

The employment-population ratio is a useful indicator and currently a positive one.

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JTEKT Toyoda Americas Unveils Great Lakes Technical Center

Nestled at the heart of the U.S. automotive industry and almost 40 miles from the Canadian border, Toyoda’s Wixom, Michigan-based tech center provides sales application, turnkey and service support to manufacturers in the Great Lakes region.

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Hydromat-RE to Focus on Machine Rebuilds and Sales

Hydromat Inc. and Motch & Eichele Co. have created a third entity, Hydromat-RE Inc., which will specialize in the refurbishing, retooling and selling of legacy Hydromat rotary transfer machines.

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Parts Cleaning

Vacuum Cycling Nucleation

It has become incumbent on manufacturers to learn about the most efficient methods of parts cleaning technologies.

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Optimizing Aqueous Cleaning Requires Proper Design and Maintenance

A well designed and proactively managed aqueous washer system provides premium performance.

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Choosing the Right Aqueous Cleaning Operation

For most machining processes, water-based solutions can be applied using tailored technologies for specific applications.

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MC Machinery Systems Moves to New Headquarters

MC Machinery Systems has officially moved into its new, 175,000-square-foot headquarters in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.

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Do Something Memorable for Others

In our June issue, contributing columnist Todd Palmer, in his column “The Power of Legacy,” writes, “Each day, in large and small ways, we are building our legacy.”

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