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Top Left - This acme shaft was the reason Garner added CNC turning.
Top Right - The Hyundai Wia CNC 150A with bar feeder runs only 6 part numbers, but each one of them is critical to the trouble free operation of their products. Right & Right Middle- Garner Products has three YCM NXV 1020A mills and two Fadals. The Fadal 3020 has a 4th axis. Bottom Right - A sampling of internally produced parts shows the variety of shapes and materials used in their data destruction devices.
magnetic drives. Both end up with the drive either broken into a taco shape or have 90 spikes driven through it. Both require tremendous amount of force coming from a small footprint. “We produce 10,000 pounds of downward force without the use of hydraulics,” explains Justin. “It all comes from that shaft we talked about earlier. Our products are tabletop size, so it is noeasytask.”
People tend to think of hard drives as delicate. We’ve all had one go bad in our computer and “lost” that data. They are actually very resilient. One of Garner Products’ long-time customers does the exact opposite of them. “Our customer is in the business of recovering data,” explains Ron. “I’m talking airline crashes, space shuttle disasters and 911 terror attacks. They can recover data from the worst-case disasters, but they use our products to ensure once they recovered what they needed that the hard drive is destroyed, and the data is no longer recoverable. Think about that for a minute, think about the responsibility we have to our customers to provide a quality product. Our quality starts at design, goes through manufacturing, and all the way through to delivery and support. We don’t take those responsibilities lightly.”
“What we do here is tangible,” concludes Michelle. “These are products that impact people’s lives. Our products are essential to national security, essential to your daily life. It is really rewarding. Looking back and sharing these memories with you is a tremendous sense of pride for us. You don’t always remember the old milestones and pizza parties, and it isn’t often we get to tell a story about Ron’s dad listening to the war on his short-wave radio. But that is who we are. We really are still a family run business, but one whose products have a global impact.”
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