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 Do you know what a “gob” is?
The people at Emhart Glass sure do!
A gob is the beginning of the glass container that becomes a bottle. Emhart Glass is the world's leading international supplier of equipment, controls and parts to glass container industry. With broad-based expertise in glass container forming, glass conditioning, gob forming, ware handling, cold end inspection, refractory parts and quality assurance, the company's machines and systems are established as standard products worldwide. Emhart was founded in 1912 in New England as the Hartford-Fairmont Company. After a series of acquisitions, the name was changed in 1952 to Emhart Glass. Today it is a multinational organization headquartered in Cham, Switzerland.
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| When the Connecticut plant moved to its new facility, Emhart was looking for state-of-the-art machining equipment for their toolroom modernization program. The Fryer ET-21 combination toolroom lathe and Fryer MB-15 3 axis milling machine fit the bill. These easy-to-use, precision CNC machine tools enabled the toolmakers, skilled in manual machining with little prior CNC experience, to produce complex parts much more efficiently. This enabled Emhart to produce parts requiring contour milling or complex turning in-house instead of jobbing them out to vendors resulting in improved quality and design, increased efficiency and decreased costs. |
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We caught up with Richard Cronkhite and Gary Boisine who work in this modern toolroom creating complex machine parts. Richard told us, “I enjoy working with the Fryer CNC machines. They are easier to use and much more accurate than other machines. I love the easy threading cycles, chamfer and radius cycles on the Fryer Easy Turn Lathe. No manipulating of two hand wheels to try to develop radiuses anymore.” Gary added “Making large holes with the Fryer MB-15 Bedmill is a dream compared to doing the same operation with a manual milling machine. No more drill, drill, drill, bore, bore, bore, just lock it down, set the diameter and mill the circle to size! Every time, perfect!”
To learn more about Emhart Glass, visit their website at www.emhartglass.com.
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