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Playing the Strait

The Mullahs and the Thugs of Iran believe that with threats and drones they hold the winning hand in the pricing of oil and gas. But relying on a Strait ultimately will be their downfall. Not long ago, 20% of the world’s oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz on

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The Best?

The use of advertising slogans must be as old as advertising itself. But if you are like me, most slogans are immediately forgotten if they

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Manufacturing Value

I’ve been interested in K&K Screw Products since I sold the founder of the company his first three Davenport screw machines a million years ago.

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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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