6 Billion Pounds of Produce Are Wasted Due to “Imperfections” Their mission is to reduce food waste and improve healthy food access for all. Every box purchased, they donate produce to local food pantries.
6/13/2019
On Wednesday, we celebrated the end of a quarter as well as Igor for his many years of service with BBQ and Chocolate Cake.
6/7/2019
Last month, some of Gent Machine’s supervisors went to Cleveland’s Axe Throwing. They had to call upon their inner woodland beast to prove themselves for this team builder.
Adam was the winner of the elimination tournament !!
6/4/2019
This month (May) marks 2 years that we have been in the new facility on Kirby Avenue.
Here’s to many more years to come !!
5/31/2019
We are still looking for qualified screw machine operators. We are certainly not the only ones but we have the work, we just need to the people!
We are at full capacity in 3 of our departments: Swiss CNC, Davenport and Acme. We have added new machines to these departments in the last 2 months and personnel as well. However, and oddly enough, our Hydromats sit empty. This is most likely due to the need for high volume on these machines but none the less they are still temporarily idle. Stay tuned!
Gent Machine had our annual ISO 9001 / IATF 16949 audit last week and we received conditional approval. We have the priviledge to continue to serve the automotive industry.
Around 4pm on January 29th a truck driver wiped out the West entrance fence. Instead of taking a conservative approach and entering from the East, the driver came from the West and thought he could make the turn. He could not and his flat bed hit the support post and tore it out of the ground, tore off the sliding gate door and sent chainlink and posts flying. Thankfully this was all of the damage he caused but the craziness continued. He needed 3 people to then help him navigate the parking lot and then 3 more to help him back out of the receiving garage.
Needless to say, we hope we don’t see him driving a truck ever again.
It is official, both of our Hydromats are sitting idle right now. Due to a slow down of one customer we recently shut down our Hydromat Epic 45/16. It will not sit idle forever but we are searching for work for both our Epic and Legacy 45/16 machines.
Gent Machine has gained a new customer where the parts must be assembled. First off, the parts are precision machined on our CNC swiss machines and then cleaned and sent for Eddy Current testing. This will verify that the surface of the parts are defect free. Then the parts receive a anodized coating for visual appeal. Then comes the assembly process where we place an electrical battery contactor in the part and then use a rubber bumper to secure it in place. Next, a thin cable is cut to 7 inches long and looped around the head of the part and pulled tight to ensure no more than .150″ of slack. The cable is crimped using a special fixture fitted to a hand press and the cable is secured to the part. We test this cable with 20 pounds of force. This part is a cap for a battery case which can be subjected to harsh situations. Please contact us for your assembly needs today.
