A new Studer for less than $3,400 per month

That’s right - A new Studer cylindrical grinder on a 60 month lease with a $1 buy-out option. Ready to grind. Nothing hidden. Nothing funny. (Payment amount based on standard equipment and financing approval.) Look at what you get...
More...

Huge Hit for Little Inserts

EWAG's new COMPACTLINE (introduced at EMO) is already a huge hit, thanks to the ability to grind carbide, PCD, CBN, cermet, & ceramic on ONE machine.
More...

Detroit Grinding Seminar: Must See & FREE!

Our popular seminar series comes to Detroit on Thursday, June 5th. Don't miss this seminar packed full of grinding information and tips!
More...

Machine Tool Financing Today

We have all seen the headlines about the mortgage industry meltdown that have dominated the news for months. Surprisingly, several sources report that credit standards, availability, and terms have generally not been affected for machine tool financing.

Rick Martin takes a look at the types of machine tool financing available and what criteria lenders are looking for when reviewing an application to finance a machine tool.

Best Team in Grinding Grows

We’re growing to provide faster support on our ever-increasing base of installed machines.  Looking for a challenge?  Want to work with the world’s most advanced grinders?  Interested in joining the best team in grinding, where individuals are respected and encouraged to grow?
More...

Productive Grinding of Superalloys

High-performance materials usually present manufacturing challenges, and superalloys are no exception. To achieve maximum productivity, grinding methods and technology must be matched to the specific manufacturing situation at hand.
More...

 Download: Click here to read the PDF file

New Partnership in Ohio & Kentucky

Ellison Technologies & United Grinding team-up to bring you profile and cylindrical grinding solutions. Join us in celebrating the Grand Opening June 5-7!
More...

Testing high value, big exposure components

Find out how aircraft, power generation and medical prosthetics manufacturers confirm that key components do in fact have the properties they are designed to have.
 Download: Click here to read the PDF file

Two New Features Extend Automation

The new Internal Measuring System (IMS) created for the Helitronic line of Walter tool grinders helps maintain endmill quality over a long production run without human intervention. In addition to IMS, we now offer an automatic wheel "sticking" feature
 Download: Click here to read the PDF file

Grind Corrugating Rolls With Mägerle

Do you grind corrugating rolls? Can you grind an average roll from solid core to finish in under 24 hours? Thanks to multi-flute full-depth creep feed grinding with continuous wheel dressing, the Mägerle MGC can!
 Download: Click here to read the PDF file

Happy To Support You!

Whether you need applications advice, software help, an electromechanical fix or parts, we are all happy to help!  See the fine people who support you over the phone and via email from the WALTER-EWAG "home office" in Virginia.
 Download: Click here to read the PDF file

How Custom Cutting Tools Lower Cost-Per-Part

West Ohio Tool Company specializes in custom drills, reamers, and step tools.  Using innovative products like Tool Sudio they develop tools that solve problems and combine operations to maximize profit and productivity...
 Download: Click here to read the full story

Fast Start for New Startup

Have you heard that Beat Mauer and Raphael Obrecht launched a new grinding business? By offering diverse services and keeping close ties with United Grinding, their startup is off to a fast start.
More...

Ride Fast, Grind Fast with Mathias Gerber

Meet United Grinding's lastest addition to the Applications Engineers team. Mathias has a wealth of experience and has come to the states all the way from Switzerland to work in United Grinding's Cylindrical Division.
More...

New Blohm Profimat MC

The new Profimat MC's integrated automatic tool changer  can switch wheels in eight seconds using a swing arm configuration. Tool options include vitrified CBN, plated CBN, conventional grinding wheels and various other metal cutting options.
More...

Studer S242 Turn/Grind

Hard-turn and grind on Studer's all new innovative machine concept, the S242. Specifically designed for the hard turning and grinding of high-precision applications for both shaft and chucked workpieces.
More...

Just getting a machine?

For manufacturers today, strategic decisions are increasingly driven by the bottom line.  Do we want to take this project in house?  Perhaps outsource all or part of the project?  But more important than ever is choosing...
More...

Invest in the Right Tools

The road to competitive success requires a lean organization, efficiency and investing in the best technology — technology that doesn't increase overhead but brings enhanced flexibility and efficiency...
More...

Ultra Precise Tolerances & Tough Materials

How do you hold 0.000,050" part after part and get a surface finish of 3.0 μin. Ra, even with Nitralloy at 68 Rc? Just ask the guys at Strite Industries...
More...

Cylindrical Update: William Cram

In this issue, we will talk about some options to reduce non-productive time allowing more time to grind the part, training for both programming and application on the cylindrical grinding machines...
More...

Profile Update: Jim Ingham

Creep feed grinding is now the best manufacturing process for many more applications, even low cost parts...
More...

Reducing Non-Productive Time

Reducing non-productive time on the grinding machine is critical. This can cover many features and mean different things to each customer (View Video) ...
More...

All New Studer S12

In order to achieve precision in the range of tenths of a micron, one must operate in the area of hundredths of a micron. Such precision is now possible with the Studer S12 cylindrical grinder.
More...

Milling On A Grinding Machine

When the word "multitasking" is applied to machine tools, the term generally refers to a machine that is capable of both turning and milling. That definition is fine as far as it goes. However, turning and milling are two fairly similar operations. If the argument for multitasking has to do with reducing both the delay and the potential for error that come from transporting parts between different machines, then...
More...

Grind 300 inserts unmanned

EWAG introduces a new robot loader for the EASYGRIND, which extends your productive day into multiple shifts without additional manpower!  It's fully integrated & adds little additional floor space. In-process regeneration keeps the wheel cutting freely during entire production run.
 Download: Click here to read the PDF file

New Mägerle MFP TC

The new Mägerle MFP TC profile grinder is equipped with an automatic tool changer and hydrostatic guideways making it a true production center. This machine is both a flexible and agile grinding solution for turbine engine producers and suppliers. Read more...
More...

Jung PA37K Profile Dresser

Flexible precision in dressing is made easy with Jung's PA37K continuous dressing unit. Visit booth 3700, at the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show (Oct. 17-20), in Toronto, to see how simple this system is. More...
More...

Wheel changer extends unmanned tool grinding

WALTER inroduced an innovative grinding wheel changer for the HELITRONIC VISION CNC tool grinder.  read more...
More...

New Blohm PROKOS

HAMBURG — Higher productivity and lower costs – in the future the name PROKOS will be synonymous with these achievements. The unique new Blohm profile grinding machine premiered at EMO Hanover 2005. read more...
More...

Auto Wheel Changer

Mägerle introduces a new, innovative tool changing system for its line of high-performance grinding centers. Read about this unique new system, which was on display at IMTS 2004...
More...

Doing What's Difficult

CINCINNATI, OH — Rudi Willems, Operations Manager, Grinding Division of Metalex Manufacturing, Inc. reflects on the part that his team is grinding in a three-machine cell consisting of a Studer S31, a Studer S33 and a Jung C-740-D.
More...

Heavy Duty Studer

The capabilities of the well proven Studer S36 have been expanded for production applications with a wheel head version for grinding wheels 24" x 6.3". Designated the S36 HD, or Heavy Duty, the grinding wheel is driven by a powerful 20 HP spindle.
More...

Out Sourcing

It seems no matter where we look outsourcing of manufacturing, especially off-shore is a buzz word consistently found in business journal articles, association meetings, and at trade shows.  Outsourcing is...
More...

Ewag's vertical workhead

New C-axis (PEK axis) vertical workhead allows you to quickly and accurately grind the complete periphery of an insert with any geometry in one clamping

Simpler way to automatically load

Custom automatic loading systems for grinding machines often lack the flexibility to allow quick job change-overs. These off-the-shelf loading systems were designed with intuitive set up in ...

Option pays for machine

ECO Loader lets you grind up to 20 tools over lunch and breaks, plus 20 tools after your last shift.  That's about 800 more tools per month than you'd make otherwise.  That's enough tools to more...
More...

Change is changing.

“Change is the only constant in life.”  Ever since I began my career as an engineer it was when I understood the theory and interrelationships of speed and acceleration, that I realized...

New Measuring Software

WALTER's new QCM measuring machine software is as easy as "Follow me!"   Even an operator with minimal training can measure a tool using QCM.
 Download: Click here to read the PDF file

67 Years in grinding

United Grinding's Cylindrical Sales Group recently added 67 years of grinding experience to its staff.  This contribution comes from the three newest members of our sales team...Doug Emerson, Bob Beals and William Cram...
More...

Aerospace Solutions

United Grinding has restructured its Surface and Profile Group to include an Aerospace Accounts Manager, Larry Marchand. In this role, Larry will bring his experiance and expertise to the top manufacturers in the aerospace industry. Read more...
More...

Grinding Camshafts - for the new HEMI

Grinding camshafts for North American auto makers is a challenging business - even more challenging if your focus is on new engine launches, such as the reinvented Dodge HEMI, upon which Chrysler has a lot riding.  You'll find the HEMI in the new Dodge Ram, Durango, as well as other soon-to-come vehicles such as the rear wheel drive Chrysler 300C and Dodge Magnum.
More...

State-of-the-Art Modular

GRINDING SYSTEM.. Designed as a future-safe, state-of-the-art modular system, the Studer Schaudt ZEUS M offers you the optimum solution for volume production grinding of camshafts, crankshafts and gear shafts, as well as electric motor armatures, steering assembly parts, eccentric shafts, tool holding fixtures, pump shafts, axle components, turbo rotors and others.

The New Mägerle MMS Modular System

The new Mägerle Modular System really does earn its name. Already the smallest Mägerle machine offered, there are a great number of various configurations to choose from, depending on the application.

New Process Optimization Consulting Service

Technology is constantly changing and what may have been the best way to make a part two years ago may be the worst way to approach making it today. The engineering staff, at United Grinding knows this, and therefore they work hard to stay ahead of the technology curve.
More...

Manufacturing Coalition formed

The MC is a grass roots organization bringing together businesses, professional associations, and concerned individuals to protect and promote the American manufacturing base.

Ewag 4-axis Easygrind Masters PCD/PCBN

United Grinding Technologies, Inc. (UGT) announces the availability of the 4-axis CNC Easygrind, a compact addition to the Ewag line of high-precision tool grinding machines specifically for tough-to-grind polycrystalline diamond (PCD) and polycrystalline boron nitride (PCBN) tools and inserts.
More...

United Grinding Certified Q1 by Ford

United Grinding Technologies, Inc (UGT) of Miamisburg, Ohio, has been certified, "Quality One".  UGT achieved excellence in the following four areas; Quality Operating System (QOS), Capable Systems, Ongoing Performance, Satisfied Customers and Continuous Improvement.
More...

Multiple Processes in Single Setup

Modular by design, the Ewag Ewamatic can be tailored to address a wide range of individual product applications. The ewamatic excels at ultra-precise grinding of highly complex tools, screws, inserts and other parts, many common to the medical/dental industries.
More...

Punch Grinding...Thriving in Chaos

Many shops wince at soaring customer demands for faster-than just-in-time support.  Many wistfully recall days of more leisurely and “reasonable” leadtimes.  However, according to one shop, focusing on what was is illusory - and, perhaps, strategically dangerous.
More...

Grinding Transmissions Winners Count On

There are reasons top drivers win races.  Skill, experience, talent, nerves . . . but still winning s rides on engineering and mechanics.  If components — in this case racing transmissions — aren’t designed and manufactured precisely, all the superior driver attributes won’t mean a thing.
More...