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	Eliminating Second Operations “You can do that on a Brown & Sharpe?”



	Design for manufacturability Striving to be More Productive


	Customer Support Keeping clients lines running

	Chip Processing Saving money responsibly

	Waste Water Recycling Good for the environment, good for HK

	HK Proprietary Cutoff Saw Innovation by design


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Eliminating Second Operations

Many parts we are asked to make have design features difficult to make on a traditional Browne & Sharpe automatic screw machine. These parts are often routed through a 2nd operation or run on an expensive and less productive CNC machine...more

Design for Manufacturability

Sister company HK Plastics Engineering, Inc. was assembling products for a customer who specified a component part made from threaded bar stock. The supply of threaded bar stock was expensive and unreliable...more

Customer Support

Customers try hard to balance production needs with inventory management. Too much inventory is costly, too little is dangerous for productivity.

HK is committed to keeping customer assembly lines running ...more

Chip Processing

During the process of machining screw machine products, both parts and waste chips are typically saturated with machine oil. HK was spending excess money on costly machine oil while too much oil was being thrown away with waste chips...more

Waste Water Recycling

All screw products companies are faced with cleaning parts after processing. In the past, HK used solvent based cleaners to remove residual machine oil. Solvent based cleaners are expensive and create costly hazardous waste...more

HK Proprietary Cutoff Saw

Every screw machine part needs to be cut from the bar stock in the process of machining. The amount of material removed during cutoff can be significant. In some cases, screw shops are effectively throwing away valuable raw material. Another problem occurs when customer require flat surfaces across the cut plane. Traditional cut off blades tend to wander while machining causing undesired effects...more