Chris Koepfer

Chris Koepfer Editor Emeritus

Still Kicking After Half a Century

In September 2013, Rick Kline, president of Gardner Business Media, celebrated 50 years with the company. It’s more than a milestone, it’s a testament.

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Okuma Opens New High-Efficiency Factory

Okuma Corporation has held a formal dedication ceremony celebrating the opening of the first building of its new manufacturing facilities in Oguchi, Japan.

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Open Doors Can Open Minds

Increasingly, the message to manufacturers looking to keep manufacturing strong for the future is that it’s up to us as an industry to get the message out. There is no help coming from anybody but us.

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Sandvik’s Virtual Hub Offers an E-EMO Experience

In addition to its booth at EMO 2013 in Hannover, Germany, next week, Sandvik Coromant will host a Virtual Hub digital exhibition on Tuesday, September 17, for those unable to attend the show.

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Micromachining

Purpose Built Micromachining Center

In metalworking, it is rare to find new approaches to well-established technologies; usually new developments are major or minor upgrades to known elements. This micromachining center is rewriting the rulebook.

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Video: Making a Hirth Coupling

This 9-minute video covers machining a Hirth coupling.

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Things are Hot in Japan: Week 2

After a somewhat gypsy-like first week, three hotels in 5 days, we settled into the Marriott in Nagoya as our base of operations for Week 2’s plant visits.

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Help Yourself and Our Veterans

Recently, carbide cutting tool makers have put recycling programs in place to reclaim the carbide and binder materials in inserts and solid tools. Sandvik Coromant is sweeting the pot for carbide recycling.

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Benchmark Your Shop

E-Newsletter August 2013

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Cutting Tools

Making Cutting Tools in New Ways

Horn began operations in 1969 with a focus on grooving tools. Today, it is represented in more than 70 countries and has expanded its tooling business to threading, interpolated milling, axial grooving, drilling, reaming and broaching.

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Climbing the Ladder of Success

A shop takes advantage of CNC multi-spindle technology to reduce cost per part while meeting customer's quality production needs.

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EMO--Go, See, Kick the Tires

Every 2 years, the international metalworking industry scrubs itself up, and puts on the largest exposition on the planet for products, processes and services in this sector.

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