Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 4, 2025

While some manufacturers feel an understandable degree of anxiety over being acquired by a larger company, success stories abound when larger machine shops with canny owners build on the strengths of their acquisitions. While it has three- and four-axis machines, it primarily works with five-axis machining centers.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Even a Top Shop can benefit from process refinement, and in the four years since Pacon Mfg, Inc. Mission-Critical Machining Most of PACON’s parts are mission critical in one way or another. As such, the shop has standardized on five-axis machines and common workholding — as was covered in the 2020 Top Shops article.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Photo Credit, clockwise from top left: GF Machining Solutions, IMCO Carbide Tool, DMG MORI USA and Capture3D. With Christmas right around the corner, MoldMaking Technology is gifting you, our readers, with an annual top-viewed article series covering products, profiles, tips and case studies, available each Monday leading up to the new year.

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