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Meeting Market Demand in Direct Imaging Industry

Presstek Corporation, a leading supplier of direct imaging equipment, had a problem: Their pioneering technology was rapidly being adopted and their biggest customer was predicting a significant increase in sales. Lampin had always supplied the lens holder components,...

Fast Response to Customer Crisis in Medical Industry

On a Sunday evening, a fire broke out at Smith & Nephew’s (S&N) Andover, Mass.  facility. Major damage was averted when the sprinkler system extinguished the fire. Unfortunately,  the two machines that were responsible for producing the company’s popular line...

Advancing Surgical Innovation

Visualization Technology, Inc. (VTI) contacted Lampin when they needed help designing their revolutionary line of fluoroscopy-based surgical equipment. With more than twenty-five years of experience as a medical supplier, Lampin was able to help design and manufacture...

Sourcing Saves the Day

For more than 20 years, Titanium Ball Valve (TBV) has relied on Lampin for critical components. TBV supplies specialty valves with zero tolerance for external leakage. On a Tuesday afternoon, TBV realized it would be unable to meet a customer order because of a...

Response Keeps Production Online

MITRPAK received an urgent call at 1:00 p.m. from John Lebeau at Eastern Industrial Automation, a MITRPAK distributor. One of their customers’ production lines was down and they needed a replacement right angle gear drive immediately. The customer, a major supplier of...

Customer Dilemma Solved by MITRPAK Double Seal

A major manufacturer of chicken processing equipment had a competitive gearbox failing every two to three weeks. Standard, dimensionally-equivalent, off-the-shelf MITRPAK drives were bolted directly into place and lasted only three months. MITRPAK engineers weren't...

MITRPAK Controls Backlash With Customized Gearbox

Synchronous high-speed needles are used in the production of the quilted fabric that covers mattresses. The manufacturer of this quilting machinery mounts the needles on an eccentric drive. Because the material is so wide, three gear drives are mounted in tandem to...

MITRPAK Gearbox Helps Military Fight Terrorism

When the United States military unleashes its Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV), MITRPAK spiral bevel gear drives move into harms way. Military designers need to demonstrate high reliability and redundancy when they introduce new technology to the troops....

Gearbox Reduces Noise and Provides High Performance

Every day,  hundreds of thousands of gallons of paint need to be mixed in specialty paint and hardware stores across North America. The world's premier manufacturer of heavy-duty automated paint shakers chose MITRPAK for their application. The manufacturer needed a...