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The metalworking industry sustained a body blow in 2009, but it's getting back on its feet as 2010 nears.

A growing number of shops are shelving their taps and opting to thread mill heat-treated steel.

Ability to machine intricate geometries and hard materials drives growing use of wire EDM prototyping.

Engineered coating combinations control heat and keep chips flying in dry-drilling operations.

Productive Times report covering dedicated wheel truing, includes a brief video report about Myles Tool using the Rush Machinery Wheel Truer.

There’s more than one way to machine a part. The trick is to match the part’s complexity and volume requirements with an optimal production process.

As an owner or manager of a machining business, you have your hands full dealing with matters from the front office to the shop and everything in-between. Even so, nonproduction issues seem to be an increasing burden.

The timing of the IMTS trade show in Chicago last September couldn’t have been better for Jason Bromiley. As vice president and co-owner of John R. Bromiley Machine Co. Inc., a job shop in Chalfont, Pa., Bromiley has the lead role in company plans to expand into aerospace manufacturing. Early last fall, the firm already was working on attaining the requisite certification (AS 9100B and ISO 9001:2008). And, as IMTS rolled around, Bromiley was in the market for equipment that would both streamline his shop’s current w

Part Time column for June 2009 issue.

Despite economic turmoil, vertical machine tool builders are keeping their customers and themselves in the game with new technology, services and added value.