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Advent Tool & Manufacturing Heller Machine Tools Dontyne Gears GEAR SOLUTIONS MAGAZINE Your Resource for Machines, Services, and Tooling for the Gear Industry 2020 2020 BUYER’S GUIDE BUYER’S GUIDE MACHINES PROFILE HELLER MACHINE TOOLS SERVICES PROFILE DONTYNE GEARS TOOLING PROFILE ADVENT TOOL & MANUFACTURING NOVEMBER 2019 NOVEMBER 2019 gearsolutions.com www.toolink-eng.com 6595 Odell Place, Suite I Boulder, CO 80301 303-776-6212 COMPACT ROBOT MACHINE TENDING HOBBERS & SHAPERS INT/EXT WORM GRINDING GEAR GRINDERS GANTRY & STOCKER MACHINE TENDING GREAT IDEA! Precision Products for Gear Manufacturing www.toolink-eng.com 303-776-6212 Don’t Settle for Less The Phoenix® 280G Bevel Gear Grinding Machine is the industry benchmark for the ultra- fast production of high-quality automotive and light truck bevel gears. It’s reliable and easy to operate, available with high- speed loader, and can be directly networked through Gleason Closed Loop. www.gleason.com/280G © Gleason Corporation. All rights reserved. 2020 BUYER’S GUIDEWhen it comes to gear manufacturing, it’s not just about what you do, but also who you know. Identifying quality sources for equipment, services, and tooling is a critical component of your overall business plan, but it can be a time-consuming task. That’s why we publish the Gear Solutions Buyer’s Guide each year: to help you connect with the suppliers you need as well as to steer companies who require the machines, materials, products, and capabilities you provide. We have compiled the most complete source listing available and presented this information in a way that is accessible, convenient, and informative. 12 MACHINES 26 SERVICES 52 TOOLING November 2019 3 Manufacturers of: and Universal Gear Company 1605 Industrial Drive Auburn, CA 95603 Phone: (530) 885-1939 Fax: (530) 885-8157 4 gearsolutions.com NOVEMBER 2019 • VOLUME 16, NUMBER 11 ARTICLES 8 22 HELLER MACHINE TOOLS DONTYNE GEARS MACHINES PROFILE Heller Machine Tools develops and SERVICES PROFILE Dontyne Gears pursues principles produces state-of-the-art machine tools and entire production in design and machining techniques that are not yet part systems for metal-cutting processes that are designed “to last of the main-stream industry in order to gain a competitive forever.” advantage. 48 64 ADVENT TOOL & MANUFACTURING ADAM GIMPERT TOOLING PROFILE Advent Tool & Manufacturing Q&A The business manager for Helios Gear Products says supplies machine shops and manufacturers across the globe “Helios means equipping manufacturers with machines and with solid carbide, inserted thread mills, and custom form tools to make profitable gears … We strive to ‘shed light’ on mills designed and manufactured to specifically meet its the path to profitable production for gear manufacturers, so customers’ machining needs. they can compete in the global arena.” RESOURCES 62 MARKETPLACE 63 ADVERTISER INDEX COVER PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK / ILLUSTRATION BY RICK FRENNEA Gear Solutions (ISSN 1933 - 7507) is published monthly by Media Solutions, Inc., 266D Yeager Parkway, Pelham, AL 35124. Phone (205) 380-1573 Fax (205) 380-1580 International subscription rates: $72.00 per year. Periodicals Postage Paid at Pelham AL and at additional mailing offices. Printed in the USA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Gear Solutions magazine, P.O. Box 1210, Pelham, AL 35124. Publications mail agreement No. 41395015 return undeliverable Canadian addresses to P.O. Box 503 RPO West Beaver Creek, Richmond Hill, ON L4B4R6. Copyright ©2006 by Media Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage-and-retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher. The views expressed by those not on the staff on Gear Solutions magazine, or who are not specifically employed by Media Solutions, Inc., are purely their own. All “Industry News” material has either been submitted by the subject company or pulled directly from their corporate website, which is assumed to be cleared for release. Comments and submissions are welcome, and can be submitted to [email protected]. November 2019 5 FROM THE David C. Cooper PUBLISHER EDITOR Chad Morrison ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER The 2020 Buyer’s Guide: EDITORIAL Your go-to source Kenneth Carter EDITOR t’s November, and for us at Gear Solutions, it can only mean one thing: our annual Buyer’s IGuide is here. Jennifer Jacobson Each November, Gear Solutions magazine publishes comprehensive company listings ASSOCIATE EDITOR as a resource to the gear manufacturing industry. Make sure you keep this special issue Joe Crowe close throughout 2020 as your go-to guide for companies offering machines, tooling, and CONTRIBUTING EDITOR services. We work hard to maintain this constantly changing list each year, adding contacts we’ve made through industry events, advertising, and editorial submissions. These con- SALES nections are important to us — whether it’s through advertising or articles that highlight Chad Morrison the latest technology, processes, applications, and products. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER A unique company profile kicks off each section. Take some time to acquaint yourself Dave Gomez with the knowledge and experience each company brings to the table when it comes to NATIONAL SALES MANAGER machines, tooling, and services. Tom McNulty As you read through the profiles and the listings that follow, take note that we’ve given REGIONAL SALES MANAGER special attention to the companies that have a community storefront on gearsolutions. com. If you’d like to know more about those companies, head to the gearsolutions.com community page. CIRCULATION I hope you find the articles interesting and informative and see our Buyer’s Guide for Teresa Cooper the useful resource we intend it to be in order to help you with your purchasing decisions. MANAGER And if your company isn’t listed, send me an email at [email protected] with Jamie Willett your information and category, and we will make sure you get added. ASSISTANT As always, thanks for reading and letting us be a valuable source for you and the rest of the gear industry! DESIGN Rick Frennea CREATIVE DIRECTOR Michele Hall GRAPHIC DESIGNER KENNETH CARTER, editor [email protected] (800) 366-2185 x204 2020 EDITORIAL CALENDAR JANUARY JUNE SEPTEMBER Raw Materials, Coating/Finishing Gear Shaping, Gear Hobbing IMTS 2020 Vertical Logo Horizontal Logo FEBRUARY JULY OCTOBER Gear Inspection, Gear Design Heat Treating, Innovative Powder Metal Gears, Technology Chamfering/Deburring MARCH Bonus Sections: Tooling & Lubrication, Broaching NOVEMBER Workholding; Inspection & Annual Buyer’s Guide APRIL Metrology Coop wants to use this one for the website Cutting Tools, Workholding DECEMBER PUBLISHED BY MEDIA SOLUTIONS, INC. AUGUST Plastic Gears, Bevel Gears P. O. Box 1987 • Pelham, AL 35124 MAY IMTS 2020 preview (800) 366-2185 • (205) 380-1580 fax Forging / Casting, Gear Grinding David C. Cooper Chad Morrison PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT Teresa Cooper 6 gearsolutions.com OPERATIONS FELLOWS 50-8/50-12 GEAR SHAPERS HYDROSTROKE SHAPERS • REMANUFACTURED IN 2017 Yeah, we’ve got that! We have the world’s largest stock of used late-model Fellows Gear Shapers. WE OWN WHAT WE SELL, AND WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE SELLING! REMANUFACTURED RETROFITTING 860-223-7778 CUSTOM MACHINES www.NewEnglandGear.com 343 JOHN DOWNEY DRIVE • NEW BRITAIN, CT 06051-2907 • PHONE 860-223-7778 • FAX 860-223-7776 • [email protected] November 2019 7 MACHINES HELLER MACHINE TOOLS PROFILE MACHINES DESIGNED ‘TO LAST FOREVER’ Heller Machine Tools develops and produces state-of-the-art machine tools and entire production systems for metal-cutting processes. By KENNETH CARTER, Gear Solutions editor eller Machine Tools is known for two things: its and camshaft machining, flexible manufacturing sys- machines and its engineering solutions. tems, and a modular range of services. Heller offers a wide range of horizontal “We make all specialty machines for milling inter- H machining centers used in a plethora of indus- nal and external crank shafts, cam shafts, and the spe- tries, and it’s not just the machines that make Heller cialty machines for different purpose cutting,” Mondek stand out. It’s also the company’s engineering depart- said. ment that is — in a word — awesome. With an impressive lineup of machinery and a top- “Experts is the word I would use,” said David notch engineering department, Heller Machine Tools is Mondek, marketing manager with Heller Machine Tools. poised to bring the best solutions to its customers quickly “Everyone compliments it. All the big players that we’re and efficiently, according to Mondek. partnered with that buy our machines —everyone com- pliments our engineering.” SOLVING THE CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS Heller’s engineering team develops solutions that oth- “It starts with visiting the customer,” he said. “We have ers often cannot solve, according to Mondek. a full engineering team that gets involved. We talk “It’s partly because our engineering team are truly to the customer, find out their problem, what they’re experts,” he said. “And then also our machines are very truly struggling with, and then we bring that problem rigid. They are very dependable — our machines are not in-house. We learn their current manufacturing process designed to be used and thrown away. They’re designed and take all of the notes of their processes, cutting times, to last a very long time.” and everything else involved with that and bring it to our engineering team here.” MACHINING CENTERS Heller’s U.S. team — which has engineers who have Heller Machine Tools builds horizontal machining cen- worked in the industry for more than 40 years — will ters as well as special purpose machining centers. They search for ways to reduce cutting times or simplify the specialize in 4-axis and 5-axis CNC machining centers, overall process and, most importantly, solve the custom- CNC mill/turning centers, CNC machines for crankshaft er’s problems, according to Mondek. 8 gearsolutions.com “We are backed up by our massive engineering team Heller Machine Tools has developed a process that sprays Heller DRZ Series: in Germany who has been doing this forever,” he said.
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