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December 2009 • January
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BREAKING NEWS…………..
Sunnen
goes "above and beyond" after fire destroys Carr Lane plant
Dec 17th
After overnight fire claims drill bushing manufacturer's Texas
Plant, Sunnen steps up to produce customer's parts and deliver new
machines within days of the disaster.
December 2009 – When a three-alarm blaze destroyed Carr Lane Drill
Bushing Company's plant in Austin, TX earlier this year, Sunnen
Products demonstrated that "above and beyond honing" is more than a
tagline – it's a business practice. The fire struck overnight and
when the smoke had cleared only the outer walls of the plant
remained. Carr Lane had lost 33 Sunnen honing machines in the
disaster – machines critical to producing the precise bore size,
surface finish and geometry required for the company's extensive
line of drill bushings.
By chance, at the time of the fire, representatives from Sunnen
heard the news while attending a Houston trade show. "When we found
out what happened in Austin I immediately called (Carr Lane
president) Earl Walker in St. Louis," said Tom Dustman,
international sales director for Sunnen. "I told him to let us know
what we could do to help, as any good neighbor would." Sunnen and
Carr Lane are both based in St. Louis, with their headquarters only
a couple of miles apart.
Carr Lane's immediate need was to fulfill existing orders for
customers like Boeing, Remington and NASA. So, Sunnen offered use of
the machines in its tech center, along with operators to hone the
parts. Raw parts were delivered to the Sunnen tech center and
finished in a day, allowing Carr Lane to meet on-time deliveries.
"We had orders, but no way to produce our parts," said Carr Lane
Plant Manager Mark Badgley. "Without Sunnen's help, we very well may
have lost significant business."
After taking care of the near-term need for parts production, Carr
Lane's next order of business was getting replacement honing
machines to its more than 100 Austin employees at a temporary
location. Immediately upon receipt of a purchase order just 21 days
after the fire, Sunnen sent six MBB-1660 machines and an EC-3500.
"Between our tech center and our show display equipment, we had the
machines Carr Lane needed to get back on its feet, so we offered our
own," said Dustman. "This normally would have been at least a four-
to six-week process."
"Before we knew it, we had equipment and were ready to get back to
work." said Badgley. "It was a great feeling to see these nice,
clean machines among the soot-covered ruins of the old ones. It
really helped our team's morale to know that we were down, but we
weren't out."
Despite the circumstances that created the need for new machines
Badgley is impressed with the new equipment. "The eight EC-3500's we
lost in the fire we're some of the first models made," said Badgley.
"There are significant improvements in the new models."
Badgley and his team have also come to depend on the quality and
reliability of the MBB-1660 series machines. "We looked at the used
market to replace the equipment we lost, but couldn’t find anything
that compared," said Badgley. "We just plug them in and they're
ready to go."
The MBB machine is a shop-standard in many plants because of its
ability to hone thin-wall, tight tolerance parts; parts with keyways
or splines; blind holes; or heavy odd-shaped parts.
Carr Lane Drill Bushing Company is now in a temporary location in
Round Rock, TX while a new facility is rebuilt on the old site.
Construction of the new plant is expected to take about a year.
For additional information on Sunnen tools and abrasives, contact:
Sunnen Products Company, 7910 Manchester Rd., St. Louis, MO 63143.
Tel: 1-800-325-3670; fax: 314-781-2268 or email sales@sunnen.com.
Productivity Improvement Days – October 6 & 7
Charlotte, NC (September 16, 2009) – Okuma America Corporation and
Morris South will be hosting Productivity Improvement Days at the
Partners in THINC facility on Sam Neely Road in Charlotte, NC from
3:30-7pm on October 6 and 7. The event will be filled with
informational seminars and live machine tool cutting demonstrations,
designed to help manufacturers improve productivity, decrease costs
and increase throughput.
Featured speaker will be Larry Schwartz, President of Okuma America
Corporation, who will be talking about Advanced Manufacturing and
the Power of Partnership. Caron Engineering will be conducting an
Adaptive Software Demonstration and the Gosiger Automation Robotic
Beverage Server will be on display and operational. Ten different
machines will be cutting everything from die molds to pistons to oil
couplings and Morris South, Okuma and various partner
representatives will be on hand to discuss specific manufacturing
challenges with attendees.
For more information contact Kathy Poulin (Partners in THINC) at
kpoulin@okuma.com or Mark Elmore (Morris South) at
melmore@morrissouth.com.
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