A world class act: General Industry Coverage

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END USER: Specialty Saw Inc., (860) 658-4419, www.specialtysaw.com; CHALLENGE: Increase the size of the saws it manufactures and resharpens while reducing turnaround time. SOLUTION: Two saw grinding machines. SOLUTION PROVIDER: Vollmer of America Corp., (412) 278-0655, www.vollmer-us.com

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Like any world-class manufacturer, Specialty Saw Inc. knows it needs to continually improve and add more value to remain competitive. Established in 1952, the Simsbury, Conn., company manufactures and resharpens saw blades primarily for metalcutting, sells sawing machines, provides machinery support and even recommends the equipment a customer needs to buy to optimize its efficiency. “The blades are no better than the machines they’re on,” said Dave Nagy, owner of Specialty Saw.

Specialty Saw has a solid reputation for quality from its customers, which include ferrous and nonferrous primary metal producers, metal service centers, paper producers and plastics manufacturers. Nonetheless, the company needed new saw grinding machines to increase the size of the saw blades it produces and resharpens and to achieve tighter tolerances. To find the appropriate equipment, Nagy and General Manager Dave Medeiros traveled to Germany to visit several machine tool builders at their facilities, as well as those at a trade show.

Courtesy of Vollmer

The Vollmer CHMF 400 dual-side grinder is for manufacturing and resharpening carbide-tipped saws up to 87 “. Inset: Specialty Saw’s Dave Medeiros (left), general manager, and Dave Nagy, owner.