Father’s Day came early for me with the end of the NBA Finals. The Golden State Warriors won the championship…
Our guest on the podcast today is Jim Gosselin, owner and President of Genevieve Swiss Industries. Genevieve Swiss sells innovative…
Sometimes in the machinery business I fall into the habit of thinking only about transactions and only about how I…
Last Friday we sold a Swiss machine. It was an OK deal, but in order to complete the sale we…
If you’re looking for poverty and violent crime, Bessemer, in the great state of Alabama, is your town. It was…
Back in February I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the MTD Podcast, an excellent podcast about machining in…
The Today’s Machining World team are on break for the holidays. Meanwhile, we thought you’d enjoy this blog by Noah…
I wanted to share one of my best blogs, and amazingly Siri showed me this one without even asking. A…
One of life’s mysteries for me has been the scarcity of great t-shirts. I am not a clothes hound. My…
In today’s podcast Lloyd and Noah Graff reflect on their experiences in the machining world of 2019. What did we…
I keep trying to make sense out of the trade war with China. It isn’t easy. I use metaphors to…
It’s my birthday today as I write this, and I’m looking forward to a New Year. If you read the…
HARTFORD, Conn. — As a decade-long push to make a national park out of Samuel Colt’s 19th-century gun factory won…
As the oil price plunges, gloom and ill-will, oddly, abound BE CAREFUL what you wish for. After years of grumbles…
The price of oil has hit another five-year low as fears of oversupply continue to mount. Brent crude was down…
This week, NASA marked a milestone: the first object manufactured outside of Earth. We may talk about “space tourism” as…
With its creaky infrastructure, tight labor laws, and famously large bureaucracy, India has never been the easiest place in the…
Lockheed Martin thinks it can make fusion power a reality within a decade ONE of the clichés of nuclear-power research…
The sign’s message was clear enough: Please Do Not Touch. For some visitors, however, the temptation was too great. Here…
Having new shoes that you need to “break in” because they hurt your feet (or dealing with shoes that always…
As Chicago wraps its mind around 3D printing for consumers, business and transformative projects including the UI Labs-led Digital Manufacturing…
A principle my parents have repeated to me is that nobody in the world is a mind reader. Therefore, to…
I met up with a Jewish acquaintance a few days ago. I asked him what was new, and he said…
Today, Shapeways may be nothing more than a company that uses 3-D printers to help designers create quirky figurines and modernist jewelry. But…
The ReWalk exoskeleton helps people with spinal-cord injuries sit, stand, and walk. A motorized exoskeleton, designed to help paralyzed people…
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…
In the depth of the recession, some foreign countries made a simple calculation. They’d subsidize their steel industries even though…
Harvard grad student Jared Friedman is a designer who is trying to use one of the most precise industrial tools on the…
Mykia Jordan has no memory of the car accident that put her in a coma for three weeks, left a…
I grew up around diabetes. Grandma Graff was a constant presence in our family. She was a practicing diabetic. She…
SALTILLO, Mexico — Jason Sauey calls them lemmings — all the American companies that rushed to China to make things…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday will announce one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States…
If President Obama approves the hot-button Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada has plenty of work to do to build the Montana-to-Nebraska…
On Wednesday, a week after a train loaded with crude oil from North Dakotaexploded in downtown Lynchburg, Va., dumping 30,000…
LONDON — Gazprom, the natural gasgiant 50.01 percent owned by the Russian government, keeps ratcheting up the bill for Ukraine, increasing the economic…
In the mid-1990s, Drew Greenblatt started dialing his way down a list of 800 brokers, lawyers and accountants, looking for…
Energy extraction can coexist with native peoples and forests PASSENGERS arriving on the sole daily flight to the Las Malvinas…
While the robots imagined in science fiction novels have often looked like humans, today’s robotic armies are emerging in all…
In a March 7 letter to Secretary of State John Kerry that was made public on Monday, more than 200…
A brief history of where your money goes and why. The appropriate thing to say about taxes on April 15…
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Fusion, the process that powers the sun, is the forever dream of energy scientists — safe, nonpolluting…
At its worst, the “airpocalypse” that settled over Beijing and northern China in late February had a fine particulate matter…
The path toward U.S. energy independence, made possible by aboom in shale oil, will be much harder than it seems. Just…
Entrepreneurs are everybody’s favourite heroes. Politicians want to clone them. Popular television programmes such as “The Apprentice” and “Dragons’ Den”…
Reverberations continue from the United Auto Workers’ unexpected defeat Friday night in its campaign to organize workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga,…
(CNN) — Thanks to 3-D printers, dentists can today print false teeth and medical device manufacturers can print hip replacements. Such…
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…
The State Dept.’s Keystone XL report found that the pipeline is unlikely to significantly add to global carbon emissions. But…
As far as long-term investments go, the renewable energy sector has a bright future Around the world, investment in renewable…
I have to laugh when I reminisce about a machinery deal we made last year. It all started three years…
It’s hard to accept the idea that it is time to make a change and move on. I was reminded…
Today’s guest on the podcast is Jon Perin, owner and President of Perin Industries, a young CNC machining company in…
Why does a kid living in shorts and a t-shirt in the Bahamas attract multi-billions of dollars to invest in…
It seems like every other day as a machinery dealer, I talk to someone who says they would purchase a…
Two clients in the machining business. One is going up for auction soon. The other hopes to sell for $10M.…
