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“ Today, we serve around 20 global industries, and we’ re particularly strong in the aviation, power generation, and medical devices markets, as well as foundry. We’ re heavily involved in the aviation market on the jet engine side, and we have an innovation center in Singapore, the largest MRO aviation hub in the world, to focus on developing robotic finishing solutions for the jet engine component MRO market. We also have a strong reputation for general castings and consumer products like plumbing, cookware, hand tools, and lock hardware, as well as in the transportation sector where we supply automation for the markets of heavy truck, off-road construction, and agricultural equipment.
“ Our extensive capabilities ensure we can custom engineer finishing processes that solve customers’ problems, and we’ re the only company in the world to build our signature centerless grinding machine, the Acme Model 1210 multi-station abrasive belt OD grinding system,” he continues.“ Centerless grinding is a fantastic technology as it allows grinding and polishing to be completed in a single pass and part diameter changeover time is less than five minutes, due to servo motor positioning on each grinding station. Most of our customers using these machines are in the hydraulic cylinder industry and are located across the globe, primarily in North America, Europe, India, and China.”
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Considering the company’ s longstanding heritage, we ask Fritz what makes Acme stand out from the competition.“ The business we are in is challenging and you need to have passion, perseverance, and persistence in order to succeed,” Fritz states.“ We stand behind our products; people come to us with difficult problems requiring, sometimes oneoff bespoke systems, and we pride ourselves on never walking away from our customers. That’ s why we have so many repeat clients, as people trust our expertise to engineer the best possible solution and our technology makes our customers more profitable.
“ Although we started with manual finishing equipment, our ability to adapt and modernize our technology as times have progressed has ensured our continued position at the forefront of the market. We shifted our business to robotic automation starting in the mid-eighties as these technologies became commercialized. We are constantly evaluating how to engineer
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