Fastenal sharpens its saw service offering with VOLLMER

摘要

Founded by Bob Kierlin in 1967, the Winona, US-headquartered business that started as a small company selling fasteners, has exploded into a 20,000 worldwide workforce with ten manufacturing facilities and over 750,000 products. The manufacturing site in Minnesota is also home to two VOLLMER circular saw blade sharpening machines - their story starts in the 1980s. With tens of thousands of fasteners being modified each month in all shapes and sizes up to a 4-inch diameter, Fastenal found the process had an insatiable appetite for burning through HSS circular saw blades. So, instead of continually sending a growing number of blades to a subcontract shop for sharpening, Fastenal bought its first saw blade sharpening machine - culminating in the opening of Fastenal's sharpening shop in 1995.