EDAC Machinery Acquires Smith-Renaud
The $1.5 million addition of Smith-Renaud capabilities in centerless grinding systems and custom precision spindles strategically complements the EDAC Machinery product line.
Posted: January 3, 2013
Smith-Renaud, founded in 1947, is a developer and remanufacturer of turnkey grinding systems, with a heavy emphasis on centerless grinders, as well as a designer and manufacturer of custom precision spindles. They also remanufacture other makes of spindles.
Examples of their design and build capability include their unique Holo-Rol bearings, which are placed into their new and remanufactured products, and their Regulator Wheel Spindle Conversion. Both of these technologies improve centerless grinding performance.
Smith-Renaud operates a high quality job shop and produces proprietary products to niche industries. These activities provide for greater overall versatility to better serve their customers. In addition to all this, they provide technical support, process verification, and training for their customers.
Smith-Renaud’s line-up of capabilities perfectly compliments those of EDAC Machinery’s other product-lines, Gros-Ite Precision Spindle, Service Network International, and Accura Technics.
EDAC Technologies Corporation is a diversified manufacturing company serving the aerospace and industrial markets. In the aerospace sector, EDAC offers design and manufacturing services for commercial and military aircraft, in such areas as jet engine parts, special tooling, equipment, gauges and components used in the manufacture, assembly and inspection of jet engines.
Industrial applications include high-precision fixtures, gauges, dies and molds, as well as the design, manufacture and repair of precision spindles, which are an integral part of machine tools found in virtually every manufacturing environment.
EDAC’s core competencies include extensive in-house design and engineering capabilities, and facilities equipped with the latest enabling machine tools and manufacturing technologies.
The company’s acquisition earlier this year of EBTEC Corporation expands its services to the aerospace and industrial markets to include electron beam welding, laser welding, laser cutting and laser drilling, EDM, vacuum heat treating and abrasive waterjet cutting, as well as expanding its markets to include semiconductors and medical devices. www.edactechnologies.com
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