Southwest Manufacturing News • March 2014

S W SW SOUTHWEST Vol. 49 No. 3 M ANUFACTURING N EWS Serving Since 1965 Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana & New Mexico Feature Editorial Quality Control Digital Optical Comparator Extended travel horizontal comparator features a 36” X-axis travel.... See Pg. 14 March 2014 Complete Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com Massive Big Bore Turning Centers for Oil Field Mazak Broadens Reach in Northern Texas As part of its commitment to U.S. manufacturing, Mazak Corporation will broaden its sales, service and applica-tions support in northern Texas as In-terTech Machine Tool Sales President, Bernie Lopez, retires from the industry as Mazak’s long-time distributor in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Mazak will build upon InterTech’s success by merging that company’s sales, service and support teams with those of Mazak. InterTech’s account managers will transition to become Mazak Corpo-ration employees, forming one unified sales and marketing organization in Texas. Continued on Page 118 Hwacheon Machinery America has introduced a line of large turning centers specifically for machining large oil field components. “Called Big Bore, they are based on the successful Hi-Tech 550, -700 and -850 horizontal turning centers,” said a company spokesperson. “Each turning center offers best-in-class spin-dle torque, permitting productive cut-ting in tough material up to 36 in. diam-eter and more than 216 in. in length.” The new Hi-TECH BB and BB+ turn-ing centers feature through-spindle holes from 7.08” to 14.57” in diameter for large pipes. Maximum cutting diameter on the Hi-Tech 850BB is over 36”. Large air chucks can be fitted at the front and back Continued on Page 118 Material Handling Finishing Mill Unloaders Quickly and automatically remove ferrous parts to improve productivity.... See Page 42 Methods Machine Tools Adds Maruka USA to Dealer Network Methods Machine Tools, Inc. has announced the addition of a new dealer, Maruka USA. Maruka will rep-resent the Nakamura, FANUC Robo-Drill, KIWA, FEELER and YASDA lines in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Okla-homa, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylva-nia, Long Island, Metro New York area and the New York counties of Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Greene and Columbia. Maruka’s strong presence in the Mid-west and mid-Atlantic regions, as well as in Florida, complements Methods’ Continued on Page 118 Applying Technology Huge Pipe Keyways Machined using unique angle head saves 184 hours in set-up and machining time.... See Page 60 Gun Barrel Manufacturing Cell The firearms industry is currently a robust sector of the U.S. industrial econ-omy. To assist manufacturers of small arms with growing volumes of barrels, Precihole Machine Tools has introduced a dedicated manufacturing cell to im-prove the efficiency of producing bar-rels. This cell consists of equipment to perform all necessary operations on the I.D. to convert a bar of metal to a barrel, e.g. gundrilling to get the basic hole, pull reaming to improve the concentricity Continued on Page 118 Apex Engineering and HM Dunn Aerospace Form Super Tier 2 Aerospace Company HM Dunn Company, Inc. and Apex Engineering International, LLC (AEI), portfolio companies of Gridiron Capi-tal, LLC, have announced the merger of the two companies to form HM Dunn AeroSystems, Inc., a vertically inte-grated Super Tier 2 aerospace manufac-turer. HM Dunn’s CEO, Phil Milazzo, will serve as the CEO of the combined entity, and AEI’s former CEO, Jeff Lan-dreth, will lead the business strategy and proposal development for the new Continued on Page 118 MATC Teaching Tools Education / Training Milwaukee Area Technical College acquires eight Clausing machines with Fagor 8055 CNC controls... See Page 70 Additive Manufacturing Hybrid Machine Adds and removes material in one set-up using laser metal deposition technology... See Page 98 To make name, address subscription changes contact: • Phone: 800-375-8488 • Fax: 817-488-7813 • E-mail: info@mfgnewsweb.com • www.mfgnewsweb.com Subscription Changes: Advertiser Index Page 85 Gross Publications, Inc. SOUTHWEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 PAID