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Tariffic News?

When Donald Trump announced his grandiose plan for trade tariffs on April 2, 2025 some people cringed, others cheered, and a few called their lawyers. One of those was Rick Woldenberg, the CEO of a family-owned company in Vernon Hills, Illinois a suburb of Chicago. His firm, Learning Resources, outsources

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Machining 2025?

If mighty General Electric is in such bad shape that its Board is considering breaking the company apart, it makes one consider how our best

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Acmesaurus

The sound that a 20 ton traveling crane makes as it stolidly rolls north to south, south to north, on its electrified path, is very

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Making the Nut

We all absorb things from our childhood that literally wire our cerebral cortex and remain with us as we mature. There are images, sayings, emblems

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5 Spindles of Fury

New Year, new opportunities. I foresee a flurry of activity in 2018 in acquisitions in the machining world. Recently one of the largest screw machine

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Gratitude 2017

Soon I’ll be 38 years old. I often question whether I have used my time wisely so far to reach a daily happy existence and

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Good Morning!

For the last 10 years my general sleep pattern usually consisted of going to bed sometime between 12:00 A.M. and 1:00 A.M (sometimes later) and

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