Every contractor who owns construction machinery knows it's important to generate as many profitable hours as possible out of any given piece of equipment. So when Lindsey Contractors Inc. of Waco, TX ...

Modern milling machines look much the same as they did 30 years ago. However, they now must cut superalloys, titanium, and high-tensile steels to closer tolerances and at faster rates than before. To ...

Experts from Roadtec, Wirtgen America and Terex Roadbuilding discuss the silica issues and how it affects your equipment Soon, the team came together to begin research on silica dust and the use of ...

If there’s a product category that kept its head above water and was largely immune to the big downturn in equipment sales during the recession, it’s milling machines. Now, thanks to the ...

Simmons Machine Tool Corp. in Albany, N.Y., designs and builds machine tools for railway wheel-set production and maintenance, and recognized a need for a new, five-axis mill-turn machine. Due to ...

When he founded MakerBot eight years ago, Pettis made a multi million-dollar bet that at-home 3-D printing would become the future of manufacturing. Today, that prediction still hasn't materialized.

Quick, what’s 360 divided by 23? It’s easy enough to get the answer, of course, but if you need to machine a feature every 15.652 degrees around a shaft, how exactly would you accomplish that? There ...

The use of mechanical processing steps such as scouring, intensive scouring and pealing commonly are employed mechanical ...