Specialty Screw Corporation of Rockford Illinois upgraded its part cleaning operations by adding a new parts washer utilizing Ransohoff’s latest cleaning technology, PRO-CLEAN DRUM ™. With the aqueous alkaline continuous part cleaning and additional stages for rinsing and rust inhibiting. An additional oil decanting system for removing oils from the cleaning solution. All added up to parts being cleaner, processed faster while reducing downtime. Aqueous cleaning effectively removes heading and … [Read more...]
Specialty Screw Saves Energy
The current relamping of our fastener manufacturing plant in Rockford, IL completes a plant wide relamping that had its initial start in 1998. Replacing 264 T12 florescent fixtures with high efficiency T8 units and reflectors. The new units use half the energy while maintaining the same lighting levels. With a ComEd rebate of 50% of the cost and a Federal Energy Credit on taxes, results in less than a 1 year payback. Another area for energy conservation that Specialty Screw Corporation is … [Read more...]
Metric Fasteners
Many issues still surround the use of the Metric System in manufacturing today. In the 70's there was an effort to increase the use of the metric system in the United States. Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, then the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act in 1988, making the metric system the preferred method. Today the US still does not consider the metric system as its primary or preferred means of measurement. Looking more specifically at the manufacturing of fasteners, … [Read more...]