Company Profile
Tooling Profile: Tormach
Much like in any industry dealing with manufacturing parts, a lot of those parts, including gears, need to be prototyped or produced in small...
Services Profile: New England Gear
New England Gear president and founder Jeff Barnes grew up as a gearhead. Today, the company he founded 30 years ago focuses on remanufacturing...
Machines Profile: Piselli Enterprises
For upwards of 30 years, Piselli Enterprises has helped its clients find and rebuild used gear manufacturing equipment. Adding to that continued success, the...
Polymer quenchants – polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP)
Fourth in a series > Polymer quenchants, first introduced in the 1970s, have captured an increasingly large market share of quenchants at the expense of oil...
A deeper dive into perils of white papers, pseudo-technical articles
In our last Materials Matter column, I covered some of the risks associated with giving too much trust to gear surface finishing white papers...
The importance of face width in gear design
Faces come in many shapes and sizes. You might have a round face or maybe an oval-shaped face. You could have a square face...
Q&A with Neil Owen
What are some of the industries that Stresstech serves, and what compels businesses within those industries to seek you out?
Stresstech, historically, has been successful within industries that value high integrity, high precision, stainless steel...
Supporting the next generation of innovators
Not to sound like a broken record, but hiring and retaining employees is still the No. 1 issue keeping business owners up at night....
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