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    Best Of Swarfcast: Starting a Swiss Shop with Dulio Arellano—EP 68

    By Noah GraffJune 23, 2022

    Today’s podcast is an American Dream story. Our guest is Dulio Arellano, owner of Premier Swiss, a Tornos shop in…

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    Family Business

    By Lloyd GraffJune 21, 2022

    Father’s Day came early for me with the end of the NBA Finals.  The Golden State Warriors won the championship…

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    Best of Swarfcast: Live Tooling and Accessories for CNC Swiss, with Jim Gosselin —EP. 114

    By Noah GraffFebruary 25, 2022

    Our guest on the podcast today is Jim Gosselin, owner and President of Genevieve Swiss Industries. Genevieve Swiss sells innovative…

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    I Want to Give More

    By Noah GraffOctober 28, 2021

    Sometimes in the machinery business I fall into the habit of thinking only about transactions and only about how I…

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    Worth the Risk?

    By Lloyd GraffJune 2, 2021

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

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    Money Vs. Respect

    By Lloyd GraffApril 1, 2021

    If you’re looking for poverty and violent crime, Bessemer, in the great state of Alabama, is your town. It was…

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    Ep. 115 – Treasure Hunting, Swarf, and Sliders with Noah Graff

    By Noah GraffMarch 19, 2021

    Back in February I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the MTD Podcast, an excellent podcast about machining in…

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    Best of Swarfblog: Doing Business With Santa Math

    By Noah GraffDecember 23, 2020

    The Today’s Machining World team are on break for the holidays. Meanwhile, we thought you’d enjoy this blog by Noah…

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    Best of Swarfblog: Confessions of a Happy Man

    By Lloyd GraffNovember 25, 2020

    I wanted to share one of my best blogs, and amazingly Siri showed me this one without even asking. A…

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    Hard to Find a Good T-Shirt

    By Lloyd GraffOctober 21, 2020

    One of life’s mysteries for me has been the scarcity of great t-shirts. I am not a clothes hound. My…

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    Ep. 65 – Our Take on the Machining World of 2019

    By Noah GraffDecember 20, 2019

    In today’s podcast Lloyd and Noah Graff reflect on their experiences in the machining world of 2019. What did we…

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    Trade War 7th Round

    By Lloyd GraffSeptember 11, 2019

    I keep trying to make sense out of the trade war with China. It isn’t easy. I use metaphors to…

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    Thoughts going into the New Year

    By Emily HalgrimsonDecember 18, 2018

    It’s my birthday today as I write this, and I’m looking forward to a New Year. If you read the…

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    Connecticut Colt gun factory to be national park

    By Emily HalgrimsonDecember 29, 2014

    HARTFORD, Conn. — As a decade-long push to make a national park out of Samuel Colt’s 19th-century gun factory won…

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    Oil spill

    By Emily HalgrimsonDecember 15, 2014

    As the oil price plunges, gloom and ill-will, oddly, abound BE CAREFUL what you wish for. After years of grumbles…

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    Oil keeps sliding on oversupply fears

    By Emily HalgrimsonDecember 8, 2014

    The price of oil has hit another five-year low as fears of oversupply continue to mount. Brent crude was down…

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    The Industrialization of Space

    By Emily HalgrimsonDecember 1, 2014

    This week, NASA marked a milestone: the first object manufactured outside of Earth. We may talk about “space tourism” as…

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    Can New Labor Laws Get the Indian Economy Going? Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to turn his country into China. It’s going to take a while.

    By Emily HalgrimsonNovember 4, 2014

    With its creaky infrastructure, tight labor laws, and famously large bureaucracy, India has never been the easiest place in the…

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    Nuclear fusion: A big bet on small

    By Emily HalgrimsonOctober 16, 2014

    Lockheed Martin thinks it can make fusion power a reality within a decade ONE of the clichés of nuclear-power research…

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    No Time for Car Shopping? Click ‘Print’ to Make Your Own

    By Emily HalgrimsonSeptember 29, 2014

    The sign’s message was clear enough: Please Do Not Touch. For some visitors, however, the temptation was too great. Here…

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    3D Printed Shoes: A Step in the Right Direction

    By Emily HalgrimsonSeptember 15, 2014

    Having new shoes that you need to “break in” because they hurt your feet (or dealing with shoes that always…

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    The ‘next frontier’ for 3D printing and additive manufacturing

    By Emily HalgrimsonAugust 25, 2014

    As Chicago wraps its mind around 3D printing for consumers, business and transformative projects including the UI Labs-led Digital Manufacturing…

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    Do You Know What You Want?

    By Emily HalgrimsonAugust 15, 2014

    A principle my parents have repeated to me is that nobody in the world is a mind reader. Therefore, to…

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    War and More War

    By Emily HalgrimsonJuly 30, 2014

    I met up with a Jewish acquaintance a few days ago. I asked him what was new, and he said…

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    A 3-D Printing Startup’s Plan to Bring Manufacturing Back to Cities

    By Emily HalgrimsonJuly 21, 2014

    Today, Shapeways may be nothing more than a company that uses 3-D printers to help designers create quirky figurines and modernist jewelry. But…

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    First Exoskeleton Gets FDA Approval For U.S. Sales

    By Emily HalgrimsonJuly 14, 2014

    The ReWalk exoskeleton helps people with spinal-cord injuries sit, stand, and walk. A motorized exoskeleton, designed to help paralyzed people…

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    SEMA Garage Takes Aftermarket Parts From Concept to Reality

    By Emily HalgrimsonJuly 7, 2014

    The Specialty Equipment Manufacturing Association, better known as SEMA, doesn’t hold its annual trade show until November each year. But the organization’s focus…

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    Asian Steel Industry Eats America’s Lunch

    By Emily HalgrimsonJune 30, 2014

    In the depth of the recession, some foreign countries made a simple calculation. They’d subsidize their steel industries even though…

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    Harvard Robot Whiz Invents a Way to Weave Facades Out of Clay

    By Emily HalgrimsonJune 27, 2014

    Harvard grad student Jared Friedman is a designer who is trying to use one of the most precise industrial tools on the…

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    G.M. Prepares to Count Cost of Suffering

    By Emily HalgrimsonJune 23, 2014

    Mykia Jordan has no memory of the car accident that put her in a coma for three weeks, left a…

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    Keeping Your Kid Alive

    By Emily HalgrimsonJune 17, 2014

    I grew up around diabetes. Grandma Graff was a constant presence in our family. She was a practicing diabetic. She…

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    As Ties With China Unravel, U.S. Companies Head to Mexico

    By Emily HalgrimsonJune 9, 2014

    SALTILLO, Mexico — Jason Sauey calls them lemmings — all the American companies that rushed to China to make things…

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    Obama to Take Action to Slash Coal Pollution

    By Emily HalgrimsonJune 2, 2014

    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday will announce one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States…

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    How Will the Keystone XL Pipeline Be Built?

    By Emily HalgrimsonMay 21, 2014

    If President Obama approves the hot-button Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada has plenty of work to do to build the Montana-to-Nebraska…

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    The Government Takes a Weak Stab at Making Oil Trains Safer

    By Emily HalgrimsonMay 19, 2014

    On Wednesday, a week after a train loaded with crude oil from North Dakotaexploded in downtown Lynchburg, Va., dumping 30,000…

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    Russia Ratchets Up Ukraine’s Gas Bills in Shift to an Economic Battlefield

    By Emily HalgrimsonMay 12, 2014

    LONDON — Gazprom, the natural gasgiant 50.01 percent owned by the Russian government, keeps ratcheting up the bill for Ukraine, increasing the economic…

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    From Making Bagel Baskets to Thinking Much Bigger

    By Emily HalgrimsonMay 5, 2014

    In the mid-1990s, Drew Greenblatt started dialing his way down a list of 800 brokers, lawyers and accountants, looking for…

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    Drilling in the wilderness

    By Emily HalgrimsonApril 30, 2014

    Energy extraction can coexist with native peoples and forests PASSENGERS arriving on the sole daily flight to the Las Malvinas…

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    A Swarm of Ant-Sized Robots, at Your Service

    By Emily HalgrimsonApril 21, 2014

    While the robots imagined in science fiction novels have often looked like humans, today’s robotic armies are emerging in all…

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    Silicon Valley’s Elite Comes Out Against the Keystone XL

    By Emily HalgrimsonApril 21, 2014

    In a March 7 letter to Secretary of State John Kerry that was made public on Monday, more than 200…

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    How America Pays Taxes—in 10 Not-Entirely-Depressing Charts

    By Emily HalgrimsonApril 15, 2014

    A brief history of where your money goes and why. The appropriate thing to say about taxes on April 15…

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    Machinery of an Energy Dream, The Challenge: How to Keep Fusion Going Long Enough

    By Emily HalgrimsonMarch 24, 2014

    LIVERMORE, Calif. — Fusion, the process that powers the sun, is the forever dream of energy scientists — safe, nonpolluting…

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    China Wakes Up to Its Environmental Catastrophe

    By Emily HalgrimsonMarch 17, 2014

    At its worst, the “airpocalypse” that settled over Beijing and northern China in late February had a fine particulate matter…

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    Dream of U.S. Oil Independence Slams Against Shale Costs

    By Emily HalgrimsonFebruary 27, 2014

    The path toward U.S. energy independence, made possible by aboom in shale oil, will be much harder than it seems. Just…

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    What exactly is an entrepreneur?

    By Emily HalgrimsonFebruary 21, 2014

    Entrepreneurs are everybody’s favourite heroes. Politicians want to clone them. Popular television programmes such as “The Apprentice” and “Dragons’ Den”…

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    By Helping Detroit, Did The UAW Lose Its Future?

    By Emily HalgrimsonFebruary 18, 2014

    Reverberations continue from the United Auto Workers’ unexpected defeat Friday night in its campaign to organize workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga,…

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    Impossible art: Mind-bending, 3-D printed masterpieces

    By Emily HalgrimsonFebruary 11, 2014

    (CNN) — Thanks to 3-D printers, dentists can today print false teeth and medical device manufacturers can print hip replacements. Such…

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    Why Volkswagen is helping a union organize its own plant

    By Emily HalgrimsonFebruary 10, 2014

    This week at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., 1,570 workers will vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers. It’s a…

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    Keystone XL environmental report: Is it ‘game over’ for pipeline foes? (+video)

    By Emily HalgrimsonFebruary 5, 2014

    The State Dept.’s Keystone XL report found that the pipeline is unlikely to significantly add to global carbon emissions. But…

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    Investment in renewable energy is falling. But you won’t believe what will happen next.

    By Emily HalgrimsonFebruary 4, 2014

    As far as long-term investments go, the renewable energy sector has a bright future Around the world, investment in renewable…

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    Inflation, Recession, Pretzels?

    By Lloyd GraffJune 23, 2022

    You are confused about inflation, interest rates, recession—your job. I’m not going to act like the Wall Street economist who…

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    My Father’s Day Card

    By Noah GraffJune 17, 2022

    This Sunday will be my first Father’s Day—the first one in which I am a father myself, which I have…

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    Help Me With My Skunks

    By Lloyd GraffJune 15, 2022

    I feel like my 20,000-square-foot house’s lot is a wildlife preserve.  Three weeks ago, a deer gave birth to a…

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    Trading Sanity for Stability in a Machining Company, with Matt Wardle—EP 157

    By Noah GraffJune 10, 2022

    Today’s guest on the podcast is Matt Wardle, owner and President of JD Machine Corp. in Ogden, Utah. JD Machine…

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    Central Steel’s Big Move

    By Noah GraffJune 8, 2022

    You might think chopping up steel bars would be a fairly mundane business, but for one of the biggest choppers…

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    Breaking Out of My Comfort Zone

    By Noah GraffJune 2, 2022

    I am a bullet, penetrating all resistance! I embrace my discomfort zone!  I try to say this statement to myself…

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    Tom Cruise For President

    By Noah GraffJune 1, 2022

    The country is pulling apart. It’s a mess here.  I don’t think so.  This Memorial Day weekend reminded me of…

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    How a Machining Company Thrives after 108 years in Business, with Michael Ottenweller and Terry Hanson—EP 156

    By Noah GraffMay 26, 2022

    Our guests on today’s show are Michael Ottenweller and Terry Hanson, of Ottenweller Company, a medium-sized fabrication and machining company…

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