Q&A: Peter Eelman
Tell us about your own background with IMTS.
This marks my 30th year of involvement with IMTS, or my 15th show since it’s held every...
Q&A with Trace Hill
Tell us how you came to found the company.
In the early days we were just doing subcontract work, taking on anything we could handle...
Q&A with Georg Bartosch
Tell us about your background, and how you came to found the company.
I was born in the Czech Republic and earned a master’s degree...
Q&A with Jeff Barnes
You worked on Fellows equipment for a long time before you started selling it, didn’t you?
Yes, I did. I went to work for...
Q&A with Ron Bullock
Bison is celebrating its 50th year. Tell us about its background and how you came to man the helm.
The company was founded in 1960...
Q&A with Jake Angell
How did you get into the rawhide gear business?
It will probably make more sense if I give you some background information. Our parent company,...
Q&A with Jeff Gribble
Give us a sense of how UVLM came into being.
My grandfather, Lowell Gribble, started an industrial maintenance service company called Ultrasonic Predictable Maintenance, Inc.,...
Q&A with Roland Ramberg
I see that you’ve launched a new Web site. It’s very impressive.
Thanks for paying us a visit. We decided that it was time to...
Q&A with Steve Arthur
Any company that’s been in business for more than a century is bound to have an interesting story. What’s yours?
The company was established in...
Q&A with Leon Kozlov
Tell us how American Gear Tools came to be established.
Ken Nemec, president of American Broach & Machine, has wanted to establish this division of...
Q&A with Eric Wilson
This year marks the company’s 90th year in business. How did it come to be founded?
William Hewitt was a journeyman blacksmith who relocated to...
Q&A with Gerald Shankel
Opening kids’ eyes to manufacturing as an exciting career is important. Tell us what the FMA is doing in that area.
You’re right, it’s...
Q&A with Alois Mundt
When was the Sigma Pool formed, and what was its original purpose?
Our customers are found worldwide, and in the early nineties we were looking...
Q&A with Thomas Passek
Could you give us a brief overview of the society’s origins and structure?
In 1913 William Park Woodside, who was trained as a blacksmith and...
Q&A with James Trombino
MPIF has an interesting history and structure, could you describe it?
I’d be glad to. The Metal Powder Industries Federation is truly a unique organization....
Q&A with Rich Piselli
Thanks for the tour of your new facility. Watching the new Gould & Eberhardt machines being built was an impressive sight.
And well worth the...
Q&A with Robert O’Connor
Could you tell us a little about the company’s history?
Of course. The company was founded by Walter Schneeberger in 1923 to manufacture tool grinders...
Q&A with Robert Bruce
I understand that the STLE is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year. Could you tell us a little about the organization’s history, and your...
Q&A with Suren Rao Ph.D.
Tell us about your academic background and what brought you to the Gear Research Institute at Penn State.
I was raised in India, and my...
Q&A with Ken Kiehl
I noticed that you’ve redesigned your Web site and changed the company name.
That’s right. Since our parent company is Cincinnati Steel Treating, we were...
