Midwest Manufacturing News • April 2015

MW M W MIDWEST Vol. 9 No. 4 M ANUFACTURING N EWS Serving Since 2007 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin F e a t u r e E d i t o r i a l Synchro Tapping Chuck Drilling / Tapping Designed for minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and dry processing for reasons of efficiency and environment... See Page 12 April 2015 See Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com KERN Precision Partners with Merrifield Machinery Solutions KERN Precision, Inc. has announced its new partner-ship with Merrifield Machin-ery Solutions of Pontiac, MI, and Grand Rapids, MI. Merri-field Machinery Solutions is a full-service CNC machine tool supplier and advisor to cus-tomers on sound capital in-vestments, cost control and equipment optimization. KERN manufactures 3-and 5-axis machining centers with repeat accuracy of <0.5 µm and <0.3 µm and a spindle runout of < 1 µm. Designed for precision part manufactur-ers, mold and die, research and development, medical and micro-drilling applications, KERN machines provide pre-cision on the workpiece below ±5 µm, (The KERN Pyramid Nano holds tolerances of ± 1 µm) and surface quality up to Continued on Page 118 HFO Midwest Open House April 15-16 HFO Midwest, a division of Morris Group, Inc., will hold a Grand Opening Open House at its new Springboro, OH, facility at 95 Commercial Way on April 15 and 16, 2015. The distributor of American-made Haas Automation machine tools will showcase live cut-ting demos, including the EC-1600YZT highlighting 5-axis aerospace machin-ing. Other machine tools on display will include the Haas ST-35Y, ST-20SSY, DT-1 with Midaco pallet changer, VF-4SS, ST-10Y and the new TL-2. In addition, an informative semi-nar by industry experts on additive Continued on Page 118 Aqueous Cleaning Systems Serves medical manufacturers providing treatment of cardiovascular diseases... Medical Manufacturing PSS Open House April 23-24 Professional Sales and Service (PSS), exclusive distributor for Mat-suura machine tools in Kansas and Western Missouri, will host a Machine Tool Open House April 23-24, 2015. PSS will also celebrate the company’s 20th Anniversary during the event. The company’s 14,500 sq. ft. facility, which includes 9,500 sq. ft. of showroom space, is located at 10921 East 26th Street in Wichita, KS. PSS will showcase the Matsuura MX-520 5-axis vertical machining center (VMC), and will also feature numerous Continued on Page 118 See Page 36 Electron Beam Weld Aerospace link assemblies used in engines for civilian and military aircraft... See Page 60 Applying Technology Concept Machine Tool Appointed Distributor for SHIGIYA (USA) LTD. Concept Machine Tool (CMT), an upper-Midwest machine tool distributor with offices in Minneapolis, MN, and Delafield, WI, has been appointed distributor of SHIGIYA (USA) LTD. for M i n n e s o t a , Wi s c o n s i n , Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska. Shigiya Machinery Works, established in 1911, manufacturers CNC cylindri-cal grinders, CNC centerless cylindrical grinders, CNC universal grinders, CNC crank-pin grinders, CNC masterless cam grinders and other spe-cialized machinery. New Tsugami Distributor Announced Tsugami/Rem Sales, the exclusive North American importer of precision Tsugami machine tools, has announced that Network Machinery, Inc. is now the exclusive distributor in Michigan for new Tsugami/Rem Sales cus-tomers. Network Machinery has been a machine tool distributor in Michigan since 1997 and its sales engineers each have more than 20 years of experience in the machine tool industry. In addi-tion to Tsugami machine tools, the company distributes Toyoda and Mu-rata products. “Tsugami machine tools are among Continued on Page 118 New Short Torch Metalforming / Fabricating / Waterjet For 3D plasma cutting that is capable of proper beveling motion... See Page 68 CMT, established in 1974, offers Continued on Page 118 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: For positive torque transmission that compensates for radial, axial and angular shaft misalignments... See Page 98 Gear Couplings Replacement Parts Advertiser Index Page 93 CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Gross Publications, Inc. MIDWEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 PAID