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		<title>Industry Market Barometer Reveals Hopeful Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twice a year, ThomasNet releases their Industry Market Barometer which is a survey that helps to get a better idea on how different buyers and sellers are feeling about their businesses and what they are doing to overcome challenges. This particular survey asked nearly 3,400 buyers and sellers of industrial goods a series of questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haas To Host National Demo Day September 14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haas Automation Hosts National “Multi-Tasking Turning Center” Demo Day
On September 14, 2011, Haas Automation, Inc., will host a “Multi-Tasking Turning Center” Demo Day at more than 40 Haas Factory Outlets (HFOs) throughout the United States and Canada. This 18th national event will feature the new Haas ST and DS series multi-tasking turning centers with Y-axis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beating the Competition by Not Making Products</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An emphasis on process rather than creating products is the goal for some metalworking companies these days. Given that manufacturing jobs are still being outsourced and domestic and overseas markets for U.S. manufactured products are continually shifting, manufacturing companies such as Sandray Precision Grinding Inc. (Rockford, Ill.) err on the side of caution and do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dual Contact Tool Holders – Genius or Gimmick, Perception or Reality?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jay Pierson I don’t remember when Dual Contact Toolholders first hit the market, but when I saw them I imagined they’d be a flash-in-the-pan product. At this point it seems like they’re more hit than miss and here to stay. I’m know there are a lot of other engineers that are far smarter than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flex Hones for Deburring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deburring cross-drilled holes can be an expensive and time-consuming operation. Electrochemical deburring (ECD) and thermal deburring may be effective, but they require electricity or heat along with chemicals and cleanups. ECD transmits electrical ene...]]></description>
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		<title>New HTEC Website: Tools to Change CNC Manufacturing Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zaventem, Belgium &#8212; Haas Automation Europe is delighted to announce the launch of its revised and redesigned Haas Technical Education Centre (HTEC) website: HTECnetwork.eu.
The HTEC website has been created to offer improved communications for everyone involved with the HTEC programme in Europe, including students, teachers, HTEC Industry Partner companies, government departments, manufacturing companies, and potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flex-Honing: Applications and Industries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flexible hones are used to blend edges, improve surface finish, and remove cut, torn, and folded metal. Unlike other honing tools, they have “balls” – abrasive globules mounted to nylon filaments – that provide a soft cutting action. These flex...]]></description>
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		<title>Our new toy, and a PCNC Lathe update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tormach.com/blog/?p=2481" title="Slant Bed Castings for the Tormach CNC Lathe prototype">
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Our new shop toy, a brief CNC lathe update, and a fond farewell to our Stirling Engine workshop project.]]></description>
		<link>http://tool-daddy.com/recent-news/our-new-toy-and-a-pcnc-lathe-update</link>
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		<title>BRM at EMO Hannover 2011 – The World of Metalworking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EMO Hannover 2011 isn’t just another trade show. It’s the world’s premiere event for metalworking technology. Organized by the German Machine Tool Builders Association and promoted by CECIMO, the European Association for the Machine Tool Industri...]]></description>
		<link>http://tool-daddy.com/recent-news/brm-at-emo-hannover-2011-%e2%80%93-the-world-of-metalworking</link>
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		<title>Selecting the Right Abrasive for Flex-Honing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flexible hones are used to remove loose, torn, and folded metal as well as deburr cross drilled holes on bores or cylinders and improve the internal surface finish of products ranging from brake rotors to firearms. Although they differ in terms of abra...]]></description>
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