Carbide Reclamation Provides Significant ROI On New
Filtration System

It wasn’t part of his balance sheet when president Denny Denic made his initial cost justifications to purchase a new centralized filtration system for Quality Carbide Tool. In addition to increased productivity and better end-product quality, OMF (One Micron Filtration) has made a significant impact to QCT’s bottom line. Since its installation, the reclaimed carbide from the manufacturer’s operation has been averaging close to $20,000 a month...
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Niche Grinding Proves To Be Successful
When Curt Reed decided to open his business in 2000, selecting a name for his company wasn’t one of his challenges. Precision Grinding Solutions, LLC (Wallingford, CT) is the combination of Curt Reed’s years of machining experience and vision of an often overlooked niche in contract grinding. Beginning his career as a tool and mold maker in the mid 80’s, Reed ended up starting his business to provide application engineering services to the grinding industry primarily with the Studer group at United Grinding Technologies...
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Best Carbide Discovers a Key Ingredient to Improving Tool Quality
It was a fatal auto accident in 1986 involving both parents that thrust brothers, Mark and Sal Nunez, into the carbide drill business their father had started six years earlier. But in the intervening years, they have transformed their father’s vision of providing customers high precision, high quality carbide tools into Best Carbide Tools, Inc (Gardena, CA). Today Best Carbide operates in a 25,000 square foot facility with over 50 employees working multiple shifts...
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Filtration A Key To Unattended Grinding
When Tom Pankratz launched Advanced Tooling, Inc. (ATI) his vision was to build a business manufacturing the difficult carbide tooling that others couldn’t or wouldn’t take on. His experience as a toolmaker taught him that his company’s competitive advantage would be gained from employing skilled labor and providing them with all the technology available to their industry...
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Coolant Selection and Filtration Aids Carbide Grinding Specialist
Carbide tools have been around a long time. Just ask John Bachmeier and his father Jacob, founder of Damen Carbide Tool, Inc. (Wood Dale, IL). Founded in 1955 on the north side of Chicago, Damen has specialized in solid carbide tooling for almost 50 years now. Jacob Bachmeier, who is still active in the company, notes that while carbide tooling is quite common today, it was quite a niche compared to high speed steel, even up to 10 years ago...
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Manufacturer of carbide cutting tools increases machining efficiency while reducing maintenance...
"Our customers are looking toward better tooling to increase cutter life, reduce cycle times and improve quality. This helps increase the bottom line," stated Doug Voisard, Production manager.
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