One manufacturer finds beauty in old grinders.Grinder builders continue to make more productive and automated machines. But when it comes to large-table surface grinders, old can equal gold. That certainly has proved to be the case for a manufacturer of perforation blades, industrial knives and hardened wear parts.The Kinetic Co. Inc., Greendale, Wis., buys old Mattison reciprocating and rotary table grinders and has them remanufactured by Dial Industries Inc., Rockford, Ill.According to Kinetic President Joseph Masters, his company was instrumental in forming a partnership in 1997 between Dial and some of Mattison Machine Works' former technicians, who lost their jobs after the company field for bankruptcy.
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