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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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The Retirement Question

Is retirement a curse or a blessing? Obviously, there is no single answer to the question. I have answered the question for myself without a

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Hiring Line

The Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA) Tech Conference just ended, and I had a chance to talk to many of the stalwarts in the machining

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Profilometer

I’m writing this blog in my new favorite Starbucks in Flossmoor, Illinois. All of the employees are African American women. I am one of three

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Rocket Men

I’ve always thought space travel was cool and interesting, particularly as a kid, but I seldom romanticized it like so many other people do. I

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Current Change

How do you deal with change? I’m talking BIG CHANGE. Existential change in the way you do business. We are witnessing it being played out

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A Patient’s Perspective

Today I get to do my twenty-first straight day of radiation treatment. Don’t feel sorry for me at all, this is my fortunate opportunity to

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