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Show Me the Tungsten

Graff-Pinkert’s used machine tool business has been challenging for the last couple of years. It has always been a cyclical business that takes grit, creativity, and a willingness to pivot when times are grim. We have moved into consulting and matchmaking for machining companies and brokering expensive, sophisticated machines like

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Our Hiring Mess

A good client of mine is trying to buy a company to get the employees. The firm is not making money, but he is so

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Opening Up!

Yesterday evening my wife, Stephanie, and I stopped to get gas. As I fueled up, a man named Danny, on the other side of the

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Worth the Risk?

Last Friday we sold a Swiss machine. It was an OK deal, but in order to complete the sale we had to take some live

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