On May 13, VP-Sales Craig Massa and Account Manager Alan Armstrong represented Atlanta Gear Works at the invitation-only Michelin North America TechnoDays at the Michelin Conference Center in Greenville, South Carolina. Billed by Michelin as “the most innovation-obsessed supplier event we’ve ever hosted,” exhibitors included some of the biggest names in industry.
American manufacturing is undergoing major transition. Challenges abound. So do opportunities. To be armed and ready, you’ve invested heavily in the latest technology. You’re under pressure to increase production for a major new customer but a broken gear tooth just shut you down. Now what do you do?
Years ago, we promised to repair or rebuild any make or model of gearbox to equal or better quality than original. Since then, we’ve kept that promise by bringing all important steps of the gearbox manufacturing process in-house under our control. This has entailed continuing investments in our footprint, our equipment and our people. We entered 2025 with major investments in all three.
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.