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pride in our work and externally enhance our reputation as a quality manufacturer.”
Based just a few miles east of Syracuse, the 60-year-old company has more than 100 skilled craftsmen, quality, tool-
ing and manufacturing engineers. Manth Brownell’s campus is located on 20 acres (8 hectares) of land occupied by two plants totaling 135,000 ft2
(12,541 m2 ) of manufactur-
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ing and offi ce space. The company has over 150 multiple and single-spindle machines, 38 CNC machines, and 52 Davenports with eight chuckers. Primary markets served are home/housing, telecommunications and transportation, but the company also serves other segments including fi rearms, aerospace, industrial, utilities and emerging markets like microwave and recreation. As a multifaceted job shop, Manth Brownell works with a variety of materials, including aluminum, brass, low-lead brass, stainless steel, and steel.
Bob Sherman, a manufacturing engineer for screw machines with more than 35 years of experience in the industry who was deeply involved in the decision to switch to QualiChem, said: “We were having a lot of problems with the straight oils we were using, running through drills at a very rapid rate, and that meant more downtime for chang- ing tools several times each shift. It was a nightmare. I couldn’t order tools fast enough,” said Sherman. “In addition, we were using four or
fi ve different oils for aluminum, brass, stainless, and other metals, plus another for machine lubrication. This made life much more complicated. Sometimes the oils would get mixed causing an increase in viscosity. This becomes a problem when your 20 [Centistoke] viscosity oil becomes 43 in eight months and you are cutting aluminum. When the viscosity goes up, the aluminum chips plug up the fi lters and pretty soon it stops or restricts the fl ow of oil, severely reducing the life of the tool and reducing surface fi nish. We had lube oil leaking into the cutting oil daily, sometimes as much as 10 gallons [37.8 L] per shift.
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