Manufacturers in a variety of industries are increasingly integrating difficult-to-machine materials into their new product designs. Greg Payne points out that this presents opportunities to shops that have the equipment and know-how to machine titanium, tungsten carbide, stainless steel and even more exotic materials such as hafnium that design engineers are specifying. Mr. Payne is the centerless grinders products manager for Cinetic Landis Corp., headquartered in Hag-erstown, Maryland. He says machine rigidity is the key to effective centerless through-feed, in-feed and form-grinding operations of these materials.
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