The Acquisition of C&B Machinery

The Acquisition of C&B Machinery

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On August 17, 2020, Orbitform, along with its group of investors, acquired C&B Machinery. C&B Machinery will stay a separate entity with its own staff and facility with additional backing from the skilled manufacturing team at Orbitform. Orbitform looks forward to working with and supporting our highly skilled team.

C&B Machinery is an industry leader providing world-class precision disc grinding and metal removal equipment solutions. We are well known for our double disc grinding equipment, which is an efficient method of removing equal stock from opposing faces of a part. This process results in the highest quality level of flatness and parallelism on both opposing surfaces.

C&B Machinery has supported numerous industries, including automotive, aerospace, and hand tools. They offer new and re-engineered disc grinding and metal removal equipment. Their re-engineered machines include used machines retrofitted with the newest mechanical and control standards, rebuilt after a complete inspection to like-new condition, or some combination of both to provide the most cost-effective solution.

C&B Machinery’s new President Bill Tulpa adds, “We intend to carry on the heritage that C&B Machinery established over the last 40 years. I look forward to working with the existing, highly skilled C&B team to grow the business.”

Please visit the Orbitform website to gain a better understanding of their offerings and manufacturing capabilities. C&B Machinery is excited to have a growing team of manufacturing leaders to assist in propelling our business forward!

Cleary’s Vehicle to a Better Future 2019!

Cleary’s Vehicle to a Better Future 2019!

We are proud to support Cleary University and their Annual Signature Event! Please help us support our local university by attending this wonderful event and supporting future students in our community!

Join us for the Cleary University’s 4th Annual Vehicle to a Better Future Signature Event. This year will feature the same exciting theme and will test the culinary skills of local business leaders and C.E.O.s in a friendly competition to claim the coveted Cleary Culinary Cup.

Key leaders and supporters will be paired with executive chefs and Cleary University seniors in a culinary battle – all focused on raising support for Cleary student success initiatives.

Interested in sponsoring the event? Click here for our full Sponsor Menu!

Cleary Vehicle to a Better Future 2019 - 2018 Culinary Cup Winners
Chris Landells of 2FOG’s Pub & David Snodgrass of Lake Trust Credit Union
Winners of the 2018 Cleary Culinary Cup
Specialty Grinder for Large Non-Coplanar Connecting Rods

Specialty Grinder for Large Non-Coplanar Connecting Rods

C & B Machinery of Brighton, Michigan has received an order from a major North American manufacturer of large construction and mining equipment to supply a specialty grinder for grinding the parallel faces of very large connecting rods.  To meet the customer’s quality and volume requirement’s C & B will be building a virtually new grinder utilizing a Mattison 100C-5 base machine pulled from C & B’s warehouse of over 40 similar grinding machines.

Our remanufacturing process will bring this grinder to 2019 technology standards and designs. Applying servo-controlled ball screw feeds on all (5) five vertical grinding spindles, position tracking on the rotary table to aid the new robotic load automation.  A touch screen mobile pendant will give the operator a simple operation of the grinder with its new (5) axis Allen Bradly safety integrated controls system.    Post process gauging will feedback to the AB control system to maintain consistent stock removal and final size at each grinding spindle.

The tooling design will accommodate two different customer connecting rods without any changeover. Both connecting rods are over 21” (548mm) long and are non-coplanar meaning the crank thickness is different from the pin thickness as well the pin is non-symmetrical.  The grinder will also have the ability to exceed the customer’s volume requirements if needed.

 

About C & B Machinery

C & B Machinery is a builder of high precision grinding machines based in Brighton, Michigan. Grinding machines, including all tooling, fixtures, controls and lubrication system is designed, manufactured and installed at the Brighton, MI, facility and fully supported after the sale by C & B Machinery’s, qualified and trained, service and support staff.  C & B supplies machines for a global list of customers, with the majority of sales being in North America (NAFTA Region). We provide complete turnkey grinding cells for all U.S. automotive companies and their tier-one and two suppliers. Included in our customer base are also aerospace, bearing, heavy equipment, compressor, and oil & gas industries.

MFG Day 2018

MFG Day 2018

C&B Machinery was proud to be a part of this year’s National MFG Day 2018! We hosted three busloads of students from the Livingston County area and had a wonderful time showcasing our machine manufacturing facility. We teamed up with the Livingston Regional MFG Day group which showcased some of the top companies in manufacturing in our county!

Participating Companies:

  • Hatch Stamping Company
  • Bekum
  • Mott Community College
  • C&B Machinery
  • Thai Summit
  • Meritor
  • Flexible Metal
  • Kem Kest
  • American Compounding Specialties
  • TG Fluid Systems
  • Armor Protective Packaging
  • Pepsi Co

C&B Machinery Expands the Models and Features Available on Its Line of CBV Series Clamp Bore Grinders.

C&B Machinery Expands the Models and Features Available on Its Line of CBV Series Clamp Bore Grinders.

C&B Machinery’s lineup of Vertical Clamp Bore micro-finishing grinders has been expanded yet again! C&B continues to strive to be an industry leader in meeting customers’ ever-growing needs for flexibility, throughput volumes, integration with plant automation, and maximizing perishable tooling life.

Our single spindle models can be an economical choice for lower volumes and lower tooling costs.  Our double spindle models work well for applications where different work holding at each station has advantages and volumes are a bit higher.  To the other extreme, our rotary index models can offer tooling flexibility and the very highest level of throughput.

We now offer a higher-speed grinding spindle option to maximize efficiency for customers using CBN grinding wheels vs. conventional free-cutting, self-dressing vitrified wheels.

The CBV Series offers multiple part handling options including operator hand load/unload, robotics integration (Fanuc Authorized Integrator), gantry load/unload with part flipping capabilities, and in-process gauging with load pre-check for stock and runout.  The gauge fixture is designed for quick adjustments with no tools required. Software is designed for control of stock removal on each side and part orientation entering or exiting the cell. Error proofing for part load and part type can also be designed into this system.

For more information on this grinding system and other disc grinding solutions, please contact us directly by phone at +1 248-264-9800 or email us at sales@cbmachinery.com.

Double Disc Grinder for Knife Blades – Gwynedd Manufacturing

Gwynedd Manufacturing, out of North Wales, Pennsylvania, has purchased a C & B Machinery 36” Swing Arm Double Disc Grinder to grind some of their Abraham & Moses Survival Equipment knife blades. These steel and powdered metal knife blades will go through a rough grind and finish grind. With other operations being performed between the two double disc grinding operations.

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These knife blades, up to 11″ in length, have a rough size tolerance of ±.0015”, parallel tolerance of .003” and a surface finish of 32Ra. The finish size tolerance is ±.001”, parallel tolerance of .003” and a surface finish of 32Ra. The total stock removal from raw blade to rough size is .045” to .050”. Stock removal from rough size to finish size is .004”. Gwynedd Manufacturing plans to start production with these blades but also has plans to grind several other parts on this very versatile grinder. The simplicity of our Swing Arm grinding machine is conducive for quick changeovers from different part types with low tooling costs.

About C & B Machinery

C & B Machinery is a builder of high precision grinding machines based in Brighton, Michigan. Grinding machines, including all tooling, fixtures, controls and lubrication system is designed, manufactured and installed at the Brighton, MI, facility and fully supported after the sale by C & B Machinery’s, qualified and trained, service and support staff. C & B supplies machines for a global list of customers, with the majority of sales being in North America (NAFTA Region). We provide complete turnkey grinding cells for all U.S. automotive companies and their tier-one and two suppliers. Included in our customer base are also aerospace, bearing, heavy equipment, compressor and oil & gas industries.

About Gwynedd Manufacturing

Located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Gwynedd Manufacturing is a large precision machine shop focused on serving the defense industry. Our 70,000 sq/ft facility houses over 60 state-of-the-art CNC machines, 80% of which are under 5 years old. Using the most advanced CNC machinery, inspection equipment, and programming and modeling software. With Gwynedd Manufacturing being a completely vertically integrated company, many career opportunities are available. As a rapidly growing company, which owns nearly every step of the production operation. We are always seeking professional, talented, and career-minded individuals in all areas of business from the production floor to the administrative staff

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