Coating Tech Jose R. Enjoys Being Part of GWS Success Story
Meet Jose R., who started out as a material handler in our plant at GWS Massachusetts in 2011. Since then, he has mastered a variety of jobs, each one adding to his knowledge of the business and allowing him to advance to positions of increasing responsibility. In his time with us, Jose has learned about […]
If You Haven’t Tried GWS Form Tools, You Might Be Missing Out
Let’s say you have to machine a part with a unique profile or feature. Would you rather use several off-the-shelf tools, each machining a different section of the contour, or just one tool that could do it all in one setup? Form tools, which are precision ground to machine a particular profile or contour on […]
Ti-Feed: A Titan Among High Feed Endmills for Titanium
Not to brag, but one of our specialties is looking at a machining problem and coming up with ways to make your job a bit easier and more lucrative. Our Ti-Feed Series of high feed endmills is a great example of this. The series came about because popular multi-flute tools and iMachining tool paths are […]
Autocam Medical Fights COVID-19 with a Little Help from Their Friends
Autocam Medical, with headquarters in Kentwood, Michigan, is a global contract manufacturer of orthopedic implants, spinal implants, precision instruments and orthopedic cutting tools. Like all of us, they have watched the coronavirus crisis unfold over the past few months. But unlike most of us, they were provided with an opportunity to make a life-saving difference. […]
GWS Solves What Others Could Not
The Opportunity A global small engine manufacturer was dealing with an unacceptable scrap rate (3.03%) when drilling piston ring pin holes into pistons for the two-cycle engines that make up a large part of their product line. The parts are made out of high silicon aluminum castings. Upon placement of the pins, pistons were cracking due […]
Custom Tool Spotlight: 10-Flute Form Tool for Defense
Welcome to our Custom Tool Spotlight, a series that takes GWS cutting tools and gives them mini biographies. Today, we’re talking about a custom 10-flute form tool to be coated with AlTiN for defense. What’s it for? This tool is specifically made for one our large tier defense/armament manufacturers. This tool will be used to […]
Coating Technician Danny Cinnamon Knows How to Spice Up the Day
Meet Danny Cinnamon, a long-tenured employee at GWS-Florida, who helps make work there much more fun for everyone. Since 2011, Danny has tackled nearly every production job there is on the GWS shop floor. That includes everything from laser etching and cleaning tools to assisting the team with our CNC machines. If it needed to […]
GWS Tools Up for Aerospace with a Line of PCD Holemaking Products
As a major provider of highly engineered custom, standard, and modified standard cutting tools to the aerospace sector, we have expanded our capacity in this area with a special emphasis on brazed PCD drills, reamers and countersinks with or without brazed threaded shank adapters. PCD (polycrystalline diamond) is made by fusing diamond grit with metal […]
Custom Tool Spotlight: Ball Nose End Mill for Titanium
An army of GWS Custom Ball Nose End Mills Welcome to our Custom Tool Spotlight, a series that takes GWS cutting tools and gives them mini biographies. Today, we’re talking about a custom tapered ball nose end mill for Ti-6Al4V. This is a ⅛” 3FL .75 LOC 6.00 OAL ⅜ Shank 3° Taper per side. […]
Aluminum Machining Goes from Awful to Awesome with GWS Tooling
Breiner Machine is a family-owned-and-operated manufacturing facility located in Brooksville, Florida. Their 11,000 square foot facility offers a wide range of services such as product development, precision CNC milling and turning, welding, and CNC sheet metal fabrication. The company produces components for a variety of manufacturing industries, including the Food and Beverage Industry, Aerospace, Aviation, […]