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LeBlond Foundation of Makino to distribute more than $100K in charitable donations to agencies supporting local communities   Mason, Ohio – May 13, 2015 – Makino has been honored by the Warren County Foundation as recipient of its 2015 Outstanding Large Business in Community Service...

Updated models expand on industry-leading machine platforms to further enhance uptime, reliability and throughput   Mason, Ohio – July 27, 2016 – Building on the industry-leading success of its top-performing horizontal machine platforms, Makino proudly introduces the newly updated...

THE CHALLENGE Fallbrook Technologies in Cedar Park, Texas, created the NuVinci® continuously variable planetary (CVP) bike transmission. It replaces the cogs, gears and derailleurs that have typically been standard issue on multi-speed bicycles. The CVP design enables riders...

Wire EDM (electrical discharge machining) has been configured with the wire in a vertical orientation for decades, so the appearance of a wire machine that orients the wire horizontally is truly a novel development.   Wire EDM (electrical discharge machining) has...

If you want to extract the greatest amount of productivity and profitability from your manufacturing operations, it’s important to evaluate how much non-cutting time is occurring when the spindle should be in cut. One of the things that can impact in-cut time is machine technology. Every Vertical...

  MASON, OHIO - JUNE 2009 - Makino's highly acclaimed online seminar series reached a new milestone on June 4, with the 100th seminar broadcast. All 100 seminars are available in Makino's online seminar library (www.makino.com/library). These online events cover a wide variety of machining...

The Challenge  Franchino Mold & Engineering in Lansing, Mich., is a leading maker of die-cast and plastic injection molds—some as big as 420,000 pounds—for automotive, construction equipment, appliance and consumer products manufacturers. To deliver orders on time and compete...

High-speed, precision horizontal machining center for parts up to 5300 x 3000mm MASON, OH – August 2007 – In a world where parts are growing more complex, the need for a large, high-precision, high-speed horizontal machining center for production work is apparent. With this in mind, Makino...

Planning to increase manufacturing capacity by adding another low cost VMC? Maybe it is time to evaluate how to achieve lower costs, increased profits, lean operation and reduced lead-times by switching to a horizontal machining center. This webinar will compare the use - and associated costs - of utilizing...