Southwest Manufacturing News • October 2009

SW MANUFACTURING NEWS Serving Since 1965 SOUTHWEST Vol. 44 No. 10 October 2009 Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana & New Mexico Online DIGITAL EDITIONS go to www.ipnews.com Okuma America and Hartwig, Inc. to Open New Houston Technical Center adjacent to the Hartwig office, provid- e at e - , Mori Seiki Chicago Grand Opening Mori Seiki will host a grand open- ing ceremony and open house Novem- ber 3-5, to celebrate the completion of its 102,000-square-foot North American corporate headquarters northwest of Chicago in Hoffman Estates, IL. This three-day event will include more than 25 machines and cutting demonstrations, new technologies in development and technical topics pre- sented by Mori Seiki engineers and guest speakers. It will also mark the in- troduction of the NVL1350T and NV7000DCG machines and the regional Continued on Page 9 l ANUFACTURING NEWS Serving Since 1965 SOUTHWEST Vol. 44 No. 10 October 2009 Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana & New Mexico Online DIGITAL EDITIONS go to www.ipnews.com Okuma America and Hartwig, Inc. to Open New Houston Technical Center adjacent to the Hartwig office, provid- e at e - , Mori Seiki Chicago Grand Opening Mori Seiki will host a grand open- ing ceremony and open house Novem- ber 3-5, to celebrate the completion of its 102,000-square-foot North American corporate headquarters northwest of Chicago in Hoffman Estates, IL. This three-day event will include more than 25 machines and cutting demonstrations, new technologies in development and technical topics pre- sented by Mori Seiki engineers and guest speakers. It will also mark the in- troduction of the NVL1350T and NV7000DCG machines and the regional Continued on Page 9 l tion tion and Hartwig, Inc. announce the opening of their new Technical Center at 4727 S. Pinemont Street in Houston, TX. The 10,000 square foot facility is d horizontalmachining centers. Grand Opening events will be held November 10-12 and will provide visitors Continued on Page 4 Congressman Pete Sessions Speaks at Applegate EDM/NTMA Meeting Congressman Pete Sessions (R- Texas 32nd district) recently addressed members of the North Texas Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) at their meeting held at Applegate EDM, Inc., Dallas, TX. The main subject was “Health Care Solutions.” Here in part are some of Congressman Sessions’ remarks: “I created the Texas Health Care (l-r) Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Texas 32nd district) presents Wayne Applegate, President of Applegate EDM, with a certificate of recognition for Applegate EDM’s achievement of ISO 9001:2008 Registered Certification and also a U.S. Flag that flew over the Capitol in its honor. Task Force, a team of physicians, which created a document of solutions based on the four principles below: • Full covereage: patient centered plans to cover all US citizens. -Insurance for pre-existing conditions Continued on Page 9 North Texas Machine Tool Show October 7 & 8, 2009 The North Texas Machine Tool Show will be hosted at the Dallas Mar- ket Hall on October 7-8. Dallas Market Hall is located at 2100 Stemmons Free- way, Dallas, TX, 75207. Exhibitors include Chaparral Ma- chinery, Delcam, Eagle Machine Serv- ices, Hi l lary Machinery, Evans Industrial Coatings, Kaeser Compres- sors, MLC Cad Systems, Machine Tool Technology & Sales, North Texas Ma- chine Tool Group, Rex Supply, Continued on Page 56 WEILER to Hold Oktoberfest Open House at Koch Machine Tool The WEILER Corporation has an- nounced an Oktoberfest Open House to showcase its most recent enhance- ments to the company’s E-series cycle- controlled lathes. This event will be held at Koch Machine Tool Company’s Houston facility. To best accommodate the work schedules of attendees, the open house will be held over two days: Continued on Page 56 Subscription Changes: Tomake name, address subscription changes contact: • Phone: 800-375-8488 • Fax: 817-488-7813 • E-mail: info@ipnews.com • www.ipnews.com/subscribe.html Feature Editorial Machinery: Metalcutting-Chipmaking DMG Introduces the DMC 60 FD duoBLOCK DMG has introduced the DMU 60 FD duoBLOCK as an all-purpose machine in the diameter range up to 700 mm to supplement its milling and turning series. See Page 12 for Details FABTECH International & AWSWelding Show Mitsubishi Laser to Showcase Newest Technology Stop by the Mitsubishi booth at FABTECH 2009 to see the latest technology from Mitsubishi Laser, Mitsubishi Waterjet and Toyokoki Press Brake. See Page 32 for Details Applying Technology Running with Clean Coolant is a Major Cost Saving Initiative “Running with clean coolant significantly reduces tool wear compared with running with dirty coolant. A conservative estimate for the benefit of clean coolant is a 10% saving in tooling cost,” said a Keller Products spokesperson. See Page 52 for Details Software Delcam Launches New Version of FeatureCAM Delcam has launched the new version of its FeatureCAM feature-based machining software. The new release will include enhancements across the full range of FeatureCAM functionality. See Page 58 for Details Advertiser Index Page 48 Gross Publications, Inc. SOUTHWEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245