Human beings have been using gears and gearboxes for thousands of years. From the mundane to the magnificent, gearboxes help us in ways most people never see. But as we in the industry know, from the paper products we all rely on to the tires our cars run on and the cement we build on, gearboxes keep the world running.
Recently, an historic hurricane reminded us that sometimes our work can protect and even save lives.
Not long ago, we performed a scheduled annual inspection at a paper mill. No one expected anything out of the ordinary. But we found a bearing on a paper machine in failure mode with the potential of causing the mill many weeks of downtime and the loss of millions of dollars in production.
What did we do next?
To continue our commitment to providing you with the quality and reliability you deserve, we’ve doubled our gear grinding capacity by adding a massive Kapp Niles Gear Profile Grinding Machine ZP 24.
Since a single failed gearbox can shut a plant down, the tangible downtime costs for a failed gearbox at a large manufacturer can be as much as $20 million per day.
We’ve added a level of awareness, credibility and protection to everything
we do.
In December we took delivery of our latest investment – an HNK VTC-16/20R CNC Vertical Turning Center. This amazing lathe updates and increases our in house turning capacity. While most manufacturers rely on third parties for this kind of machining, we’re bringing it in house…